Mark Your Calendar: The 2027 Palm Beach Cavallino Classic Dates and Venue

The 2027 Palm Beach Cavallino Classic runs Friday, February 19 through Sunday, February 21, with The Boca Raton confirmed as the principal venue. This timing is verified independently by Cavallino Classic’s official event website, Canossa’s official Palm Beach Cavallino Classic event page, and the Florida Ferrari & Exotic Car Association’s event listing.

For collectors who have attended before, the year matters more than usual. 2027 marks Ferrari’s 80th anniversary, a framing Cavallino Classic uses explicitly on its official event website. It also marks a milestone for the event itself: Canossa’s 35th-anniversary announcement states the Palm Beach Cavallino Classic returns to The Boca Raton in 2027 for its 36th edition.

One wrinkle worth flagging now, before you build a travel calendar around it: the Florida Ferrari & Exotic Car Association’s listing still titles the event “35th Annual Cavallino Classic Palm Beach,” a discrepancy against Canossa’s 36th-edition claim. Neither figure changes the dates or venue, but it’s the kind of inconsistency that shows up across event listings when organizers update materials at different times. Don’t try to resolve it yourself. Call Cavallino Classic directly and ask which number they’re using for official credentials and judging classes, since that’s the figure that will appear on your paperwork if you enter a car.

Three Days, Three Distinct Events: Tour d’Eleganza, Concours d’Elegance, and Classic & Sports Sunday

Cavallino weekend is not one event stretched across three days. It’s three separate programs, each with its own registration, audience, and purpose: a Friday road tour, a Saturday judged concours with an evening social event, and a Sunday car gathering with a less formal structure.

Autoweek’s 2027 event preview reports the sequence as Tour d’Eleganza on Friday, the Concours d’Elegance on Saturday, and Classic and Sports Sunday on Sunday. The Manual’s Ferrari 80th-anniversary preview corroborates this independently, describing a Friday South Florida drive, a Saturday Concours d’Elegance, and a Sunday Classic & Sports Sunday. Two outlets landing on the same three-part structure, reported separately, is about as close to confirmed as event previews get this far out.

The Florida Ferrari & Exotic Car Association’s listing adds a detail worth knowing if you’re planning your Saturday: the public schedule names both the Concours d’Elegance and “Cavallino Night” as part of that day’s programming, meaning Saturday functions as both the judging day and the marquee social evening. If you’re entering a car, expect your afternoon and evening both committed.

Here’s how the reported structure breaks down, with the caveat that follows immediately after.

The Cavallino Auction: RM Sotheby’s Parallel Sale During Cavallino Weekend

RM Sotheby’s runs “The Cavallino Auction” on Saturday, February 20, 2027, at The Boca Raton, 501 East Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida. It shares a venue and a weekend with the Concours, but it is a distinct commercial event with its own catalog, registration, and terms.

This distinction trips up even experienced collectors who assume Concours admission gets them into the sale room, or that bidder registration doubles as concours entry credentials. It doesn’t work that way. RM Sotheby’s auction listing describes its own buyer’s premium structure, payment terms, title requirements, and export or transport obligations for winning bids, none of which overlap with Cavallino Classic’s concours entry process. If you intend to bid, you’ll need to register with RM Sotheby’s separately, review the catalog’s condition reports and provenance notes on any lot you’re serious about, and understand the payment window before you raise a paddle.

A Ferrari-Only Concours: Why Entry Is Highly Selective

Unlike a general multi-marque concours, the Cavallino Classic Concours d’Elegance is centered specifically on Ferrari road and competition cars. That narrower focus raises the bar rather than lowering it. Judges and class structures are built around Ferrari-specific criteria, which means originality, correct specification, and documented history carry more weight than they might at a broader event where a Ferrari is simply one marque among many.

If you’re weighing whether your car is Concours-ready, the honest answer usually comes down to paperwork as much as paint. A car with a thin history file, unverified engine or chassis matching, or an undocumented restoration is a harder sell to judges than a car with comprehensive service and ownership records, regardless of how it looks on the lawn. This is worth thinking through now, months ahead, rather than the week before entry deadlines close.

What’s Still to Be Confirmed: Venue Notes and Scheduling Caveats

Several details reported for 2027, including exact ticket pricing and Sunday’s venue, remain unconfirmed by the organizer as of this writing and should be verified directly before you commit travel plans or capital. Treat any figure or location below as a starting point for a phone call, not a final answer.

Autoweek’s 2027 preview reports a Tour d’Eleganza package price of $2,090, which includes a police escort and arrival at The Boca Raton. That figure comes from a single preview article and is dated to that report; it is not a current, guaranteed rate. Package pricing for events like this tends to shift as sponsorships, hospitality tiers, and final logistics get locked in closer to the date, so confirm current pricing directly with Cavallino Classic before budgeting around it.

The Sunday venue discrepancy noted earlier deserves a second mention here because it affects more than just where you park. If Classic & Sports Sunday programming does move to a different property than The Boca Raton, that could mean separate credentials, different arrival procedures, or a different dress code and guest policy. None of that is confirmed either way. The practical move is the same one that applies to pricing: call the organizer, get the answer in writing or email, and don’t rely on secondhand previews for anything that affects your Sunday logistics.

Preparing Your Ferrari’s Documentation Ahead of the Weekend

Whether you’re entering the Concours, consigning to RM Sotheby’s, or simply fielding offers on the sidelines, the documents that matter are largely the same: title, provenance file, service history, and a recent independent appraisal. Collectors who show up to Cavallino weekend with these already assembled move faster and negotiate from a stronger position than those scrambling to produce them on demand.

A provenance file worth having in hand includes original build sheets or factory documentation where available, a continuous chain of ownership, major service and restoration records with receipts, and any prior Ferrari Classiche certification. For competition-history cars, event results and period photography add real value to both a Concours entry and an auction consignment. If you haven’t had your car independently appraised in the past year or two, especially given how quickly certain Ferrari markets move, this is the season to get that done before, not during, the frenzy of auction week.

When Speed Matters: Financing an Acquisition or Bridging a Sale During Cavallino Week

Cavallino weekend compresses a year’s worth of Ferrari transactions into three days. The RM Sotheby’s auction alone can move quickly once a lot you want crosses the block, and private sales conversations happening quietly at the Concours or in the paddock often move on a similarly tight clock. That timing works against buyers who need to free up capital from other holdings before they can act, and it works against sellers who’d rather not accept a rushed offer just because a bank loan is still pending approval.

This is the moment where private, asset-based lending earns its place in a collector’s toolkit rather than a bank’s. Palm Beach Loan works with collectors around exactly this kind of calendar, arranging fast, confidential loans against fine watches, jewelry, art, rare wine, and classic and luxury cars, including the very Ferraris that might be changing hands that weekend. There are no credit checks, and nothing is reported to any bureau. Every loan is based on an independent appraisal of the asset and determined case by case, so no specific amount or rate is promised here or anywhere else, and borrowing against a car you value carries the same real risk any collateral loan carries: the asset secures the loan. What Palm Beach Loan offers instead is discretion and speed, the ability to bridge a purchase before liquidating other assets, or to unlock liquidity from an existing collection without a public sale or a drawn-out bank process.

A Collector’s Checklist Before Booking Travel

A short list of confirmations, made now rather than in February, saves real friction once the weekend arrives. Each item below ties back to something covered above that remains organizer-dependent or documentation-dependent.

• Confirm the final 2027 dates, venue for each day, and whether Sunday programming is at The Boca Raton or elsewhere, directly with Cavallino Classic.
• If entering the Concours, confirm entry deadlines, class structure, and judging standards, and verify whether the event is referring to its 35th or 36th edition for your credentials.
• If bidding or consigning, review the RM Sotheby’s Cavallino Auction catalog, registration requirements, buyer’s premium, and payment terms separately from Concours registration.
• Gather or update provenance documentation, service records, and an independent appraisal for any car you intend to enter, sell, or use as leverage in a private negotiation.
• Confirm current hospitality and Tour d’Eleganza package pricing directly with the organizer rather than relying on prior-year figures.
• If you anticipate needing capital quickly around an acquisition or sale, arrange financing options in advance of the weekend rather than during it.