Miami Heat Schedule December 2026: Game Times in ET, TV and Christmas Day at Boston

The Miami Heat open December 2026 at home against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), according to the National Basketball Association (NBA) schedule. The date to mark is Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25, when the Heat play at the Boston Celtics at 2:30 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN.

The NBA’s 2026-27 regular season schedule PDF is dated Aug. 13, 2026 and marked “subject to change.” It gives each game’s local time and its ET time. The table below lists every Heat game in December, adds Central Time (CT) for the road games played in that zone, and a printable of the same games is at the end.

Heat games in December 2026, by date

The schedule lists 13 Heat games in December: eight at home at Kaseya Center in Miami, per NBA.com’s arena list, and five on the road. Weekdays are as printed in the NBA’s PDF.

Date	Game	ET	CT	National TV
Tue., Dec. 1	Atlanta at Miami	7:30 p.m.	n/a (home)	None listed
Thu., Dec. 3	Washington at Miami	7:30 p.m.	n/a (home)	None listed
Sat., Dec. 12	New York at Miami	8:30 p.m.	n/a (home)	ABC
Mon., Dec. 14	Miami at Chicago	8 p.m.	7 p.m.	None listed
Wed., Dec. 16	Miami at Memphis	8 p.m.	7 p.m.	None listed
Fri., Dec. 18	LA Clippers at Miami	7 p.m.	n/a (home)	Prime Video
Sun., Dec. 20	Sacramento at Miami	6 p.m.	n/a (home)	None listed
Mon., Dec. 21	Chicago at Miami	7:30 p.m.	n/a (home)	None listed
Wed., Dec. 23	Chicago at Miami	7:30 p.m.	n/a (home)	None listed
Fri., Dec. 25	Miami at Boston	2:30 p.m.	n/a (Eastern)	ABC and ESPN
Sun., Dec. 27	Charlotte at Miami	6 p.m.	n/a (home)	None listed
Tue., Dec. 29	Miami at Dallas	8 p.m.	7 p.m.	NBC and Peacock
Thu., Dec. 31	Miami at Oklahoma City	8 p.m.	7 p.m.	None listed

“None listed” means the NBA’s schedule shows no national network for that game. Local TV and radio broadcasts are not in the NBA’s PDF and are not covered here. The CT column is the local time the schedule gives for the road game, and it is one hour earlier than ET.

Heat Christmas game 2026 at Boston

The Heat play at the Boston Celtics on Friday, Dec. 25, at 2:30 p.m. ET, on ABC and ESPN, according to the NBA’s schedule. NBA.com’s Christmas Day release lists it as “Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics” at the same time on the same networks. Because Boston is in the Eastern time zone, ET is also the local time at TD Garden. For the full holiday slate, see our Christmas Day 2026 NBA and National Football League (NFL) schedule and the When is Christmas? date page.

Heat schedule gap from Dec. 4 to Dec. 11

The NBA’s August schedule lists no regular-season games for any team from Friday, Dec. 4, through Friday, Dec. 11. For Miami, that means a nine-day gap between the Dec. 3 game against Washington and the Dec. 12 game against New York, which is on ABC. The window is the Emirates NBA Cup knockout stage.

NBA.com’s Aug. 12, 2026 Group Play release sets the knockout rounds: the quarterfinals on Friday, Dec. 4, and Saturday, Dec. 5, the semifinals on Tuesday, Dec. 8, and/or Wednesday, Dec. 9, and the final on Friday, Dec. 11, at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Miami is in East Group B, and its last group games are Nov. 25 at Philadelphia (5 p.m. ET) and Nov. 27 at New York (7 p.m. ET). Whether Miami reaches the knockouts is not known yet, so the Dec. 4 to Dec. 11 window may hold no Heat game or a Cup game that the regular-season schedule does not list. Our NBA Cup 2026 schedule has every round.

Back-to-back nights and the Chicago stretch

Counting from the NBA’s table, the Heat play on consecutive nights once in December: Sunday, Dec. 20, against Sacramento at 6 p.m. ET and Monday, Dec. 21, against Chicago at 7:30 p.m. ET, both at home.

Chicago appears three times in the month. The Heat visit the Bulls on Monday, Dec. 14, at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT), then host Chicago on Dec. 21 and again on Wednesday, Dec. 23, both at 7:30 p.m. ET. The two home games are two nights apart, so they are not back to back. The Christmas game follows two days after the second one, on Friday, Dec. 25, and the road games are not grouped in one trip: the Heat go to Chicago and Memphis on Dec. 14 and 16, then to Boston, Dallas and Oklahoma City on Dec. 25, 29 and 31, with a home game against Charlotte on Dec. 27 between.

National TV for Heat games in December 2026

Four December games carry a national network in the NBA’s schedule: ABC against New York on Dec. 12, Prime Video against the Los Angeles Clippers on Dec. 18, ABC and ESPN at Boston on Dec. 25, and NBC and Peacock at Dallas on Dec. 29. The other nine have none listed. The Heat close the year on the road at Oklahoma City on New Year’s Eve, Thursday, Dec. 31, at 8 p.m. ET.

Printable Heat schedule for December 2026

The one-page watch guide lists all 13 December games with ET and CT times, the national channel and a column for your notes. Keep it next to the December 2026 printable calendar or add the games to a printable weekly calendar. For the Cup games that came before, see our Heat schedule for November 2026.

Because the NBA’s schedule is “subject to change,” recheck game times on NBA.com before you head out. Results, injuries and tickets are not part of the schedule and are not covered here.