Filming on Palm Beach Island: Permits, Locations & Production Tips
Palm Beach Island remains one of South Florida’s most recognizable filming destinations, known for its luxury storefronts, coastal architecture, palm-lined streets, and iconic waterfront aesthetic.
For brands, agencies, photographers, and commercial production teams looking to capture that elevated South Florida look, understanding the permitting process early is key.
Commercial filming within the Town of Palm Beach operates differently than many surrounding municipalities and requires advance approval through the Town Council. While residential neighborhoods remain highly restricted for commercial production activity, there are still strong opportunities for productions within approved commercial areas, along with several nearby South Florida locations that offer a similar visual feel with greater permitting flexibility.
With the right planning, Palm Beach Island can still be an incredible backdrop for luxury, fashion, hospitality, automotive, marine, and coastal lifestyle productions. At SPLASH Productions, we provide South Florida production support for brands, agencies, photographers, and commercial production teams filming throughout Palm Beach County, the Treasure Coast, and the South Florida coast. Our team helps productions navigate filming permits, location scouting, local crew coordination, and on-the-ground production logistics from prep through wrap.
Understanding the Palm Beach Filming Permit Process
A permit is required for any commercial video production or photography taking place on public property within the Town of Palm Beach. Commercial filming is only permitted within commercial zoning districts and is prohibited in residential areas.
Commercial filming on Palm Beach Island is limited to commercial zoning districts and public property approved through the town’s permitting process. Residential areas are prohibited from commercial filming activity, making early location planning especially important for productions considering Palm Beach Island. Fortunately, nearby South Florida coastal communities can often provide a very similar visual aesthetic while offering more flexibility for production logistics, parking, staging, and permitting.
Popular Palm Beach Island Locations
Areas surrounding Worth Avenue, the Royal Poinciana Plaza area, and portions of South County Road offer many of the visual characteristics productions typically associate with Palm Beach Island, including luxury storefronts, palm-lined streets, Mediterranean architecture, polished landscaping, and upscale coastal environments.
Worth Avenue Clock Tower
Worth Avenue Shops
Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course
Tiffany intersection at Hibiscus Avenue
Royal Poinciana Plaza
Palm Beach Lake Trail
Royal Palm Way
The Society of the Four Arts
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum
Why Productions Film on Palm Beach Island
Palm Beach Island is often selected for commercial productions because of its mix of luxury retail environments, Mediterranean-style architecture, tropical landscaping, waterfront views, marinas, and upscale coastal atmosphere.
The area is especially popular for fashion campaigns, hospitality brands, automotive productions, marine industry content, luxury products, and coastal lifestyle advertising.
Filming Restrictions and Production Conditions
Commercial filming permits on Palm Beach Island come with several production conditions and scheduling limitations that should be considered early during planning.
Every filming permit application must be reviewed during a public hearing before the Town Council, which meets on the second Tuesday of each month. Applications must be submitted at least 20 business days before the applicable Town Council meeting. Following review, the Town Council may approve the permit, approve it with conditions, or deny the request.
Additional filming restrictions include:
No filming during peak traffic hours of 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Only seven total filming days are permitted within a single calendar month across all approved permits, on a first-come, first-served basis
No use of paved streets or rights-of-way for filming activity
No blocking of traffic or pedestrian access
Expanding the Palm Beach Look Beyond the Island
Many productions combine Palm Beach Island with nearby South Florida locations to achieve the same elevated coastal aesthetic while gaining additional production flexibility.
Areas like Jupiter Island, Sewall's Point, Hutchinson Island, and Hobe Sound offer similar waterfront homes, beachfront locations, tropical landscaping, marinas, golf communities, and blue water environments often associated with the Palm Beach aesthetic, while typically allowing for greater flexibility with permitting, parking, staging, and production logistics.
For many productions, these nearby areas help expand creative options while simplifying the realities of production planning and crew movement throughout Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.
For additional South Florida filming locations, explore our article on Florida’s Hidden Film Location You Haven’t Considered Yet.
Local Production Support Matters
Because Palm Beach Island productions often require more advance coordination, local production support can make a significant difference during both pre-production and shoot days.
SPLASH Productions supports agencies, brands, and out-of-state production teams filming throughout Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Jupiter, Stuart, the Treasure Coast, and South Florida, helping crews navigate permitting, location scouting, weather planning, parking logistics, local crew support, and commercial production execution from prep through wrap.
Images from Alba commercial shoot with Addition House.