GTA 6 Trailer Frames Mapped to Leonida Hubs

Rockstar has published two official Grand Theft Auto VI trailers: Trailer 1 on 4 December 2023 (1:31) and Trailer 2 on 6 May 2025 (2:47). This briefing is the written index of the frames Map-6 already ties to regional hubs. It is not a third trailer, a collectible dump, or a replacement for the timestamped player.

The map guide teaches the HUD. This page answers a narrower question: which official second belongs to which named region, and which seconds we leave unpaired.

Timestamps stay approximate until we finish a frame-by-frame pass on the Rockstar uploads. Treat them as a scrub start. Rockstar does not publish chapter markers.

The pairing rule

A beat gets a hub only when the terrain type is visible: towers vs causeway spans vs mangroves vs cranes vs gated waterfront vs elevation. Color grade is not geography. A teal night look can sit on Ocean Drive or downtown Vice City; the roofline and the waterline decide.

If two hubs still fit, we do not pick. An honest gap beats a forced pin. Story interiors (Lucia in custody, the prison-release lot) stay off the map on purpose.

Trailer 1 — 4 December 2023

~Time	Hub	What to pause on
0:06	Ocean Drive	Art deco facades, palm rows, a wide beach strip
0:31	Grassrivers	Alligator in strip-mall retail — wetland sprawl, not a Vice City block
0:47	Leonida Keys	Low bridges, small islands — count the spans
0:58	Port Gellhorn	Container stacks and gantry cranes
1:10	Vice City	Glass towers and freeway curves at dusk

Ambrosia Island and Mount Kalaga do not get a Trailer 1 row. We will not invent one from a blur.

Trailer 2 — 6 May 2025

~Time	Hub	What to pause on
0:08	Leonida Keys	Stilt house, shallow water, boats as transport
1:01	Ocean Drive	Neon hotels, crowds, wet asphalt — match rooflines, not pink saturation
1:24	Vice City	Dense skyline plus elevated roadway
1:42	Grassrivers	Mangroves and airboats — the road stops being a grid
1:58	Ambrosia Island	Walled mansions, private moorings
2:13	Port Gellhorn	Freight waterline vs the beach frames
2:29	Mount Kalaga	Tree cover and actual elevation

Open the matching hub, then deep-link the map with ?loc=. Copy HUD X/Y only after the silhouette matches. Confidence stays trailer-visible, not “confirmed street.”

How to use the table on a second pass

Play the official uploads from the timestamped player, keep Landmarks on, and walk the rows in order. When a beat matches, open the hub page, then the ?loc= deep link, then write one line: timestamp, hub, confidence. Do not batch-pin seven districts from memory after the credits.

A useful second pass is slower than the first. Pause two seconds early, look at the horizon before the subject, and only then decide Keys vs Grassrivers. Water alone is not a region. If chat is already naming a shop, ignore the name until a readable sign is on screen. Map-6 would rather be a day late than publish a fake street.

The beginner map guide is the HUD lesson. This article is only the index of official seconds. Use both. Editions and pre-order SKUs do not add pins — see the pre-order guide if you came here from a shopping tab.

What this is not

• Not a collectible list. Trailers show biomes. Packages, jumps, and shop names wait for evidence.
• Not Trailer 3. Anything sold as a third cinematic stays unconfirmed until Rockstar Newswire posts it. See the Trailer 3 guide for that watch.
• Not district borders. Vice City downtown vs Ocean Drive is a visual contrast, not a shapefile Rockstar published.
• Not a leak wiki. Community GTADB pins can sit next to these hubs. They are working hypotheses.

If you only have time for one pass: play Trailer 2 from the official player, keep Landmarks on, and walk the seven rows above. That is the entire pre-launch atlas Rockstar has actually shown.

Console launch remains 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Re-check rockstargames.com/VI before you spend. Editions do not change pins.