Twenty-three London markets for antiques, vintage clothes, crafts, books, flowers and everyday street shopping, grouped by what you're hunting for, with the days and hours each market publishes, the nearest Tube and one honest drawback each. A day-by-day planner at the end puts each one on the right day, with Greenwich and Spitalfields too.
London's markets run on a calendar, and getting the day wrong is the classic mistake. Portobello Road is a Saturday market: its antique arcades open only on Saturdays, most from 7am to about 4pm. Columbia Road Flower Market is Sunday only, 8am to about 3pm, and pairs with Brick Lane's vintage halls 15 minutes' walk south. Old Spitalfields runs an antiques market every Thursday, Bermondsey's antiques market is Friday morning only, and Camden Market and Greenwich Market open every day. If you only have one weekend, I'd do Portobello on Saturday and Columbia Road into Brick Lane on Sunday.
Portobello, Columbia Road and Camden lead the 23 markets below, followed by the ones worth knowing next: antiques dealers from Covent Garden to Marylebone, vintage and flea markets, makers and books, a 4am wholesale flower market, and the working street markets where Londoners actually shop. Each one comes with the trading days and hours the market publishes (as of 28 September 2026) and the nearest station on the Tube (the subway) or the Overground (London's suburban rail).
This page is for things you carry away. Markets where you go to eat, including Borough Market, Maltby Street and Broadway Market, are in the best food markets in London. For the rest of the trip, start with the best things to do in London; browsing is free, and free things to do in London has more like it. Christmas markets have their own guide.
The big three. Portobello Road is the market most people mean when they say London antiques, and it rewards getting the day right. On Saturday the whole road trades: the antique arcades and the Westbourne Grove stalls at the southern end, then fruit and veg, then vintage clothes and bric-a-brac under the Westway, and Golborne Road's flea stalls at the top. The arcades open only on Saturday, most from 7am until about 4pm.
When: Saturday is the full market. Friday is the quieter second choice, with antiques at the south end and vintage clothing at Portobello Green. Monday to Thursday it's fruit, veg and household goods, and there's no Sunday market outside summer and December. Getting there: Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District lines), five minutes to the south end. The drawback is the Saturday crowd, which makes the narrow southern stretch slow going by 11am. Get there by 9am and walk north.
Come on Saturday by 9am and walk north from Notting Hill Gate, ending at Golborne Road.
Camden Market is the one that never shuts: a sprawl of stalls, shops and food around Camden Lock and the Regent's Canal, open every day of the year except Christmas Day. It's less about finds than about the scene: vintage and new clothes, gifts, records and street food, with Hawley Wharf's shops across the canal. On Saturdays in October and November 2026 a vintage and car-boot pop-up runs at Hawley Wharf Market Place, 11am to 5pm.
When: daily 10am to 7pm, though most traders keep 10am to 6pm. Getting there: Camden Town or Chalk Farm (Northern line), about five minutes. It's at its most crowded at weekends, so a weekday morning is the easier visit. The souvenir stalls repeat themselves, so budget more time for the food and the canal than for shopping. Its food side is also in the food markets guide.
Go on a weekday if you can, and leave along the Regent's Canal towpath.
Columbia Road Flower Market turns one short East End street into a corridor of plants and cut flowers every Sunday. Behind the stalls, the street's small independent shops and cafés open too. It's the market I'd give a Sunday morning to, and it links straight into the Brick Lane markets 15 minutes' walk south.
When: Sundays only, 8am to about 3pm. Getting there: Hoxton (Overground), about ten minutes; Bethnal Green (Central line), about 15. It's small and very popular, so by 11am you shuffle rather than walk. Come at 8am or 9am to see it properly.
Arrive by 9am before the street jams, then walk south to Brick Lane.
Antiques and collectables. Bermondsey Antique Market is the one the trade uses. It's been on Bermondsey Square since the late 1940s, and dealers bring stock in from their shops across the south-east, with French traders a regular feature. It calls itself a traders' market, and it means it: the haggling between dealers starts before most visitors are out of bed. Expect traditional antiques next to collectables that are antiques only by a generous definition (the market's own example is a 1980s arcade game).
When: Fridays only, from early morning (6am to 7am) until 2pm. Cover: mostly open-air under marquees, with a small indoor section. Getting there: Borough (Northern line), 12 minutes on foot, or London Bridge in 15. The honest drawback is the setting: tall buildings make the square windy, and the market itself admits it can feel edgy in the early hours. The good pieces go early, so it rewards an alarm clock.
The dealers trade with each other first thing. Be there by 8am if you're buying, and dress for wind.
Alfies Antique Market is London's biggest indoor antiques and vintage market, with 80 to 100 dealers across four floors of an Art Deco-style building on Church Street in Marylebone. It's my pick for 20th-century design: vintage fashion and costume jewellery, mid-century furniture, Art Deco lighting, ceramics, glass and silver. There are restorers on site (jewellery repairs, clocks) and a rooftop restaurant.
When: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm. Saturday is the busiest day. Cover: fully indoors, which makes it the antiques trip for a wet day. Payment: many dealers take cards; bring cash for small things. Getting there: Marylebone or Edgware Road (Bakerloo line), about seven minutes. Two catches: it's closed Sunday and Monday, and full step-free access is limited by the building, although there are lifts and stairlifts to several floors.
Many dealers take cards, but bring cash for small buys. The rooftop restaurant is the break.
Grays is the smart end of London antiques: nearly 100 dealers and jewellery specialists on two floors, opposite Bond Street station. The strengths are fine and costume jewellery (engagement rings, signet rings, even tiaras), vintage wristwatches and clocks, Asian and Islamic art, silver and porcelain.
When: Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm. Closed Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays. Cover: indoors on two floors. Getting there: Bond Street (Central, Jubilee, Elizabeth lines), directly opposite. Prices on its own listings run into the thousands, so treat it as a gallery you're allowed to buy from rather than a bargain hunt. Half an hour here is an easy break from Oxford Street shopping.
Go on a weekday. It's closed all weekend, which catches out most visitors.
Camden Passage is a car-free lane in Islington, just off Upper Street, with three small market areas among its antique shops and cafés. Camden Passage Market does antique and vintage jewellery, vintage clothing and collectables; Charlton Place is covered, with general antiques and retro clothing; and Pierrepont Arcade adds a Sunday market of antiques, collectables and books. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with Camden Market.
When: Wednesday and Saturday are the main antiques days, with all three areas open from about 9am to 6pm. Pierrepont Arcade also trades on Sunday (8.30am to 5.30pm), runs a vintage fashion and jewellery market on Thursday (9am to 6pm) and has stalls on Friday. Closed Monday and Tuesday, and the market says days are subject to change. Getting there: Angel (Northern line), four minutes. I'd pick Saturday and make a morning of it with Chapel Market's stalls five minutes away.
It has nothing to do with Camden Market. The station is Angel, not Camden Town.
Jubilee Market is the covered hall on the south side of the Covent Garden piazza, and it changes with the day. Monday is Antiques and Collectables, from 5am: Georgian to Art Deco pieces, fine jewellery, china, sterling silver and old books. Weekends are arts and crafts: candles, handmade jewellery, paintings, calligraphy. Tuesday to Friday is a general market.
When: Monday antiques 5am to 5pm; Tuesday to Friday 10.30am to 7pm; Saturday and Sunday 10am to 6pm. Cover: indoors. Getting there: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line), three minutes. Come on a Monday. Midweek it's greeting cards, souvenirs and anime figures, which will disappoint anyone who read 'antiques' somewhere and turned up on a Wednesday.
Monday is the day to come. The rest of the week is mostly souvenirs.
Vintage and flea markets. The Brick Lane Vintage Market fills F Block of the old Truman Brewery with vintage clothing from the 1920s through the 1990s: fur coats and feather capes, vintage bridal wear, men's suits, vinyl and accessories. It's run by Truman Markets, which also runs Backyard Market up the street.
When: Monday to Friday 11am to 6.30pm, Saturday 11am to 6pm, Sunday 10am to 6pm. Cover: fully indoors. Getting there: Shoreditch High Street (Overground), about eight minutes; Aldgate East (District, Hammersmith & City lines), about ten. It's open every day, which makes it the reliable Brick Lane stop. The downside is the facilities: a recent Google reviewer called out dirty toilets. Upmarket next door has become a food hall, with craft stalls only at weekends.
It's indoors and opens every day, so it's the Brick Lane stop that works in the rain.
With over 100 shops, it's suitable for both sightseeing and shopping. from a visitor review
Golborne Road crosses the top of Portobello Road, past the Westway, and it's where the market turns into a flea market. On Fridays and Saturdays the stalls are boxes of bric-a-brac, vintage clothes and accessories, homeware and furniture, and the road's Moroccan and Portuguese cafés and fish grills keep you fed. The interiors shops along the road are worth a look too.
When: Friday is Golborne's busiest day, and Saturday the whole market trades. Monday to Thursday it's fruit, veg and hot food only, and there's no Sunday market outside summer and December. Traders usually run 8.30am to 6pm, packing up earlier in winter. Getting there: Westbourne Park (Hammersmith & City, Circle lines), eight minutes. I'd come on Friday for a Portobello morning without Saturday's crowds.
Friday is its busiest day. Walk up from Portobello Road, which runs straight into it.
The Hackney Flea Market isn't weekly. It's a roughly monthly weekend of around 40 picked traders in Abney Public Hall in Stoke Newington, and it leans to homes rather than wardrobes: 20th-century furniture, lamps and lighting, salvaged French homeware, Danish decor, records, textiles and bric-a-brac, with only a few clothes sellers. It's been running since 2013.
When: set weekends only, 10am to 5pm. The next dates are 17-18 October, 31 October-1 November, 28-29 November and a Christmas edition on 19-20 December 2026. Entry: free; register on Eventbrite. Getting there: Stoke Newington (Overground), eight minutes; there's no Tube nearby. The honest drawback is price: some Google reviewers think it's steep for what's on offer. The same organisers run the Giant London Flea at the Olympic Park on 25 October and 15 November 2026.
Most traders take cards on a mobile reader. Come in the afternoon if you want room to move.
showcasing a really eclectic mix of Vintage home wears, jewellery, lighting, art, furniture from a visitor review
Crafts, makers and books. The Apple Market sits inside the Covent Garden Market Building, under the glass roof, and it's the easiest place in the West End to buy something handmade rather than mass-made: jewellery, prints and watercolours, soaps and one-off pieces, Tuesday to Sunday. On Mondays it switches to antiques and collectables. The East Colonnade Market next to it adds handmade soap, bags and hand-knitted children's clothes every day.
When: crafts Tuesday to Sunday, antiques on Monday; hours vary by stall. Cover: under the market roof. Getting there: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line), three minutes. It's in the middle of Covent Garden, so expect crowds and tourist prices. Come early in the day.
Pair it with Jubilee Market across the piazza. On Mondays both do antiques.
Backyard Market is a warehouse set back from Brick Lane where the people behind the stalls made what's on them: independent designer-makers selling contemporary and vintage fashion, their own jewellery and accessories, and affordable original art from painters, photographers, illustrators and ceramicists. It's been going for nearly two decades.
When: Saturday 11am to 6pm, Sunday 10am to 6pm; closed on weekdays. Cover: the makers are indoors; street food is outside on Brick Lane. Getting there: Shoreditch High Street (Overground), about eight minutes. It's one warehouse, so it's smaller than the vintage halls down the road. I'd treat it as the gift stop on a Sunday Brick Lane loop.
Weekends only. Do it on the Sunday loop after Columbia Road.
The South Bank Book Market has sat under Waterloo Bridge on the Queen's Walk since 1983. It's eight stalls of second-hand books on tables by the river: contemporary fiction and children's books, vintage and antiquarian editions, and old maps, prints and postcards.
When: daily, 10am to 7pm, though each stall keeps its own days and hours. Cover: the bridge keeps the rain off, but it's open at the sides. Getting there: Waterloo (Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern lines), about six minutes, or walk over Waterloo Bridge from Embankment. It's small, so don't cross London for it. Fold it into a walk along the South Bank, where it's on the way from the London Eye to Tate Modern.
It's a stop on a South Bank walk, not a trip in itself. The old maps and prints make light souvenirs.
Merton Abbey Mills is a market in the old riverside textile works in south-west London, once worked by Liberty and William Morris. The Abbey Mills Market brings local makers, handmade crafts, vintage finds and gifts to the courtyard, and occasional Saturday vintage markets add about 30 traders with mid-century furniture, lighting, posters, maps, records and French brocante. The permanent shops, a theatre and riverside bars are there all week.
When: the Abbey Mills Market usually runs on the last Saturday of the month, from 10am; the next dates are 31 October and 26 December 2026. Payment: most vintage traders take cards. Getting there: Colliers Wood (Northern line), ten minutes. It's no longer an every-weekend market, and that's the catch: turn up on the wrong Saturday and there are only the shops. Check the market's What's On page first.
Check the What's On page before you travel. On a non-market Saturday it's just the shops and cafés.
Flowers. New Covent Garden Flower Market is London's wholesale flower market, at Nine Elms. Around 20 wholesalers sell cut flowers, foliage, plants and sundries under one roof, and the market says it supplies three-quarters of London's florists. It's a working trade market, full of forklifts and florists stocking up for the day. For flowers at retail on a Sunday, Columbia Road is the one (see the planner below).
When: Monday to Friday 4am to 10am, Saturday 4am to 9am, closed Sunday; the market says hours can vary and to call a wholesaler before visiting. Entry: no charge on foot; the car park is from £5 for up to three hours. Rules: no under-16s and no dogs except assistance dogs. Getting there: Nine Elms or Battersea Power Station (Northern line), under five minutes. It's aimed at trade buyers and done by mid-morning, so I'd only go if you're an early riser who wants to see how London's flowers arrive.
No under-16s, so it's not a family outing. Go at 6am, not 9.
Everyday street markets. Petticoat Lane is the East End's historic clothes market, running since the Huguenot weavers of the 1750s. The Victorians renamed the street Middlesex Street, but the market kept the old name. On Sunday it spreads across eight side streets with fashion, textiles and leather goods, and the fabric shops behind the stalls sell Asian and African cloth.
When: Sunday 9am to 3pm is the big market. Monday to Friday a smaller market trades on Wentworth Street, 8am to 4pm. Getting there: Aldgate East (District, Hammersmith & City lines), three minutes; Liverpool Street, nine. Be clear on what it is: mostly new, cheap clothing, not antiques or vintage. It works as a Sunday add-on to Old Spitalfields, five minutes north.
Sunday is the day. Old Spitalfields is a five-minute walk north.
We visited on a Sunday, when the market really comes into its own from a visitor review
Chapel Market has been Angel's street market for over 150 years: a local mix of fruit and veg, household goods and everyday stalls near Angel station. The better reason to come is Sunday, when the Islington Farmers' Market sets up between Penton Street and Baron Street with produce from farms within 100 miles of London: meat, cheese, bread, fish and cut flowers. It's London Farmers' Markets' oldest.
When: Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 6pm; Sunday 8.30am to 4pm, with the farmers' market 10am to 2pm. Getting there: Angel (Northern line), four minutes. On a weekday it's a neighbourhood market rather than a destination. On a Wednesday or Saturday, combine it with the antiques in Camden Passage across Islington High Street.
Come on Sunday for the farmers' market, then walk five minutes to Camden Passage.
One of the most authentic local markets in London. from a visitor review
Ridley Road in Dalston has traded since the 1880s and now runs to over 150 stalls. It's east London's big Afro-Caribbean and African market: Afro-Caribbean, Asian and European food, fruit and veg, plus fabric, second-hand clothes, crockery, rugs and household goods.
When: Monday to Saturday, 9.30am to 4pm; closed Sunday and bank holidays (except Good Friday). Getting there: Dalston Kingsland (Overground) is right opposite. It's loud, crowded and not built for visitors, and a few Google reviewers found it rough around the edges. That's also the point. Come for the fabric and the energy, not for souvenirs.
Carry cash and come before lunch, when the produce is best.
A lively and noisy market from a visitor review
Walthamstow Market runs for a kilometre down Walthamstow High Street, and the council bills it as Europe's longest outdoor street market. It's been trading since 1885: food, clothes and household goods on the stalls, and cafés along the way from Caribbean curried goat to pie and mash with jellied eels.
When: Tuesday to Friday 8am to 5pm, Saturday 8am to 5.30pm; closed Sunday and Monday. Getting there: Walthamstow Central (Victoria line and Overground) is at the east end. It's everyday shopping, not antiques or crafts, and it's at the far end of the Victoria line. The reason to make the trip is the length and the pie and mash.
Start at the Walthamstow Central end and walk the whole kilometre west.
East Street Market in Walworth is one of south London's oldest and busiest street markets: fruit and veg, African clothing and fabric, and a long run of clothes, bags, shoes, cosmetics and household stalls.
When: Tuesday to Friday 8am to 5pm, Saturday 8am to 6.30pm, Sunday 8am to 4pm; closed Monday. Getting there: Elephant & Castle (Northern, Bakerloo lines), about 14 minutes on foot, or a bus down Walworth Road. It's everyday goods, and the walk from the Tube is longer than most. The reason to know it is Sunday: it's one of the few south London street markets trading then.
It's one of the few street markets trading on Sunday, and a bus ride down Walworth Road from Elephant & Castle.
Shepherd's Bush Market has run alongside the railway viaduct between Uxbridge Road and Goldhawk Road since 1914. It's west London's fabric market: African textiles, haberdashery and tailors, alongside fresh produce, spices, Caribbean and Middle Eastern groceries, butchers, fishmongers and street food.
When: Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm; closed Sunday. Getting there: Shepherd's Bush Market station (Hammersmith & City, Circle lines) is at the Uxbridge Road entrance; Goldhawk Road is at the south end. It's an everyday market, not a vintage one. Don't confuse it with the separately run 'New Shepherds Bush Market' nearby.
Come for fabric. Enter from Uxbridge Road and walk south under the railway to Goldhawk Road.
Queen's Market in Upton Park has been on its site by Green Street since 1904, and it's stocked for the neighbourhood: African, Caribbean and South Asian food, fresh fish and meat, and fabric, trimmings and haberdashery from the Indian subcontinent. On Sundays a separate market brings second-hand goods, embroidered cloth, new clothes and toys.
When: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9am to 6pm; Sunday market 10am to 4pm; closed Monday and Wednesday. Getting there: Upton Park (District, Hammersmith & City lines), two minutes. It's far out in east London and not set up for tourists. I'd only make the trip for fabric, or to see a London market that isn't built for visitors.
Walk Green Street afterwards for sari and jewellery shops.
Saturday: Portobello Road. The antique arcades between Chepstow Villas and Westbourne Grove open only on Saturday, most from 7am to about 4pm, and the whole road trades. Start at the Notting Hill Gate end (Central, Circle, District lines) by 9am, walk north through the antiques, and finish at Golborne Road's flea stalls. Other Saturday options: Camden Passage, Alfies (its busiest day), Backyard Market, Merton Abbey Mills on its market Saturdays (usually the last of the month), and a vintage pop-up at Camden Market's Hawley Wharf every Saturday in October and November (11am to 5pm).
Sunday: Columbia Road, then Brick Lane. Columbia Road Flower Market is Sunday only, from 8am to about 3pm; get there early, before it jams. Walk 15 minutes south to the Brick Lane Vintage Market and Backyard Market, then on to Petticoat Lane (until 3pm) and Old Spitalfields. In north London, do Chapel Market's farmers' market (10am to 2pm) and Camden Passage's Pierrepont Arcade. Portobello Road has no street market on Sundays outside summer and December.
Monday: antiques at Jubilee Market (from 5am) and the Apple Market in Covent Garden, then Grays in Mayfair. Alfies, Camden Passage, Walthamstow, East Street and Queen's Market are closed. Greenwich Market is closed on the first six Mondays of the year. Tuesday: Alfies and Grays for antiques. Wednesday: Camden Passage's full market. Thursday: Old Spitalfields' antiques market (8am to 5pm, 80-plus stalls) and Camden Passage's vintage fashion market. Friday: Bermondsey Antique Market (early until 2pm), then Golborne Road and the Friday half of Portobello, with antiques at the south end and vintage at Portobello Green.
Greenwich Market is a covered market of crafts, antiques, vintage and food, open daily 10am to 5.30pm; all its stalls take cards. Take the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) to Cutty Sark, or a river boat to Greenwich Pier. Old Spitalfields Market by Liverpool Street opens daily, 10am to 6pm (8am on Thursday, 5pm close on Sunday). Thursday is antiques; the first and third Friday of the month is a vinyl market. Its food stalls are in the food markets guide.
Money. Every market here is free to enter. Cards work at most indoor markets; bring some cash for the street markets and small antiques stalls, where you can also ask for a better price. Timing. Antiques dealers trade early: Bermondsey is done by 2pm and the Portobello arcades by about 4pm. Street stalls pack up earlier in winter. Weather. Alfies, Grays, Jubilee Market, the Apple Market and the Brick Lane Vintage Market are indoors; Portobello, Columbia Road, Golborne Road and the street markets are not.
Two more for south-east London. Deptford Market trades on Deptford High Street on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 9am to 5.30pm, and its Douglas Way section is known for bric-a-brac and second-hand goods; Deptford station (National Rail) is two minutes away. Brixton's street market on Electric Avenue sits next to Brixton Village, which is in the food markets guide.
Notting Hill puts Portobello on your doorstep for Saturday, and Shoreditch does the same for Columbia Road and Brick Lane on Sunday. Where to stay in London compares the areas. London has no tourist tax yet.
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