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G20 Miami Leaders' Summit
Monday, December 14, 2026 · 39 days away
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G20 Miami Leaders' Summit
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Leaders of G20 economies meet at Trump National Doral, Florida under US presidency; Dec 14–15.
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- 2026-12-14
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- US
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- United States
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The 21st G20 Leaders' Summit, scheduled for Monday 14 December and Tuesday 15 December 2026 at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida. The United States holds the G20 presidency through 2026 and the Doral meeting is the headline leaders' summit of the cycle, gathering heads of state and government from the world's 19 largest economies, the European Union, and the African Union.
About this summit
The Group of Twenty was elevated to a leaders-level forum in 2008 in response to the global financial crisis and has met annually since. Its members account for roughly 85 percent of global GDP, 75 percent of global trade, and two-thirds of the world's population. The December 2026 summit follows Brazil's chair year ending with the Rio leaders' meeting in November 2024 and South Africa's presidency through 2025 culminating in Johannesburg. The US is hosting the leaders for the first time since the Pittsburgh summit of September 2009.
President Donald Trump's Doral choice was confirmed in the spring of 2025 and is the first time the American president has hosted a G20 at his own golf and conference resort, a decision that has drawn scrutiny from the State Department's ethics offices and from foreign delegations who have flagged protocol and emoluments concerns. Sherpa-track meetings throughout 2026 are running out of the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the National Security Council, with finance-track gatherings co-led by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. The Indian, Brazilian, South African, and Chinese delegations have already signalled priorities; Saudi Arabia chairs in 2027.
Agenda
Headline themes for the US presidency are AI competitiveness, critical-minerals supply chains, energy security, the Bretton Woods institutions' lending architecture, and the post-Ukraine and post-Gaza global rebuilding agendas. The communiqué fights to watch are the Russia language used in the leaders' declaration, US versus EU language on emissions and the loss-and-damage fund agreed at COP28, the framing of China's industrial policy and overcapacity disputes, and the AfCFTA-aligned trade and finance asks tabled by the African Union. Expect bilaterals between Trump and Xi Jinping, Trump and Lula, Trump and Modi, and Trump and Mohammed bin Salman to drive the side-room news cycle.
Past summits
- November 2024 — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hunger and poverty alliance launch; Trump-Biden transition shadow.
- September 2023 — New Delhi, India. African Union admitted as a permanent member.
- November 2022 — Bali, Indonesia. First face-to-face Biden-Xi meeting; Bali Declaration on Ukraine.
- October 2021 — Rome, Italy. Global minimum corporate tax endorsed.
- November 2020 — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (virtual). Pandemic financing and debt relief.
- December 2009 — Pittsburgh, USA — last US-hosted G20 leaders' meeting.
How to follow
The summit's official website is g20.gov, mirrored at usg20.gov for the US presidency. Live broadcast and pool coverage are coordinated by the White House Press Office, with C-SPAN, the BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP, NHK, CCTV, Globo and Doordarshan running parallel feeds. Key communiqué text is posted to g20.org as it clears. Regional broadcasters publish Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French and German language summaries. The leaders' photograph and the host country's family-photo backdrop typically appear at the close of day one.
Related countdowns
Pair the G20 with the BRICS summit in New Delhi — the two largest minilateral leaders' gatherings of 2026 — and the G7 summit in Évian. Climate and trade tracks also hinge on COP31 in Antalya and the NATO summit in Ankara. The CHOGM Antigua 2026 countdown covers the Commonwealth's parallel autumn summit. Domestic US politics will be shaped by the US 2028 presidential election cycle that the summit kicks into.
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When is the 2026 G20 Miami summit? Monday 14 December and Tuesday 15 December 2026. Where is the summit held? Trump National Doral, Miami, Florida. Why does the G20 Miami 2026 summit matter? It is the first US-hosted G20 leaders' meeting in 17 years and Trump's chair-year platform for AI, critical minerals, and Bretton Woods reforms. Who attends? The 19 G20 country leaders plus the European Union and African Union, with invited guests typically including Spain, the Netherlands, Singapore and Norway.
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