London markets, by day
15 markets, grouped by when they actually trade. Several of the best ones run on a single day a week — turning up on the wrong day is the most common way to waste a morning here.
The ones you have to plan around
These trade on one or two days a week. Everything else is open most of the week.
- Broadway Market Saturday
- Camden Passage Wed & Sat
- Columbia Road Flower Market Sunday
- Golborne Road Fri-Sat
- Maltby Street Market Sat-Sun
- Portobello Road Market Saturday
Monday
5 markets
Camden Market
DailyHot foodCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Greenwich Market
DailyHot foodTrading since 1737 and the only London market inside a World Heritage site - designer-makers, antiques and a strong street food run under one roof.
Leadenhall Market
Mon-FriHot foodAn 1881 covered market in cream, maroon and green wrought iron, standing where the Roman forum was, and standing in for Diagon Alley on film.
Peninsula Al Fresco
DailyHot foodChurros, fried chicken, pizza and a spritz bar under pergolas outside the O2 - free giant Jenga and Connect Four keep it family-friendly rather than purely a food market.
Seven Dials Market
DailyHot foodTwo floors of independent food traders in a 1920s banana-ripening warehouse, with a stage for live music and a bookshop tucked in among the counters.
Tuesday
6 markets
Billingsgate Fish Market
Tue-SatProduce, not mealsThe UK's largest inland fish market, trading before dawn a few minutes from the towers - the public can walk in and buy, and almost nobody does.
Camden Market
DailyHot foodCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Greenwich Market
DailyHot foodTrading since 1737 and the only London market inside a World Heritage site - designer-makers, antiques and a strong street food run under one roof.
Leadenhall Market
Mon-FriHot foodAn 1881 covered market in cream, maroon and green wrought iron, standing where the Roman forum was, and standing in for Diagon Alley on film.
Peninsula Al Fresco
DailyHot foodChurros, fried chicken, pizza and a spritz bar under pergolas outside the O2 - free giant Jenga and Connect Four keep it family-friendly rather than purely a food market.
Seven Dials Market
DailyHot foodTwo floors of independent food traders in a 1920s banana-ripening warehouse, with a stage for live music and a bookshop tucked in among the counters.
Wednesday
8 markets
Billingsgate Fish Market
Tue-SatProduce, not mealsThe UK's largest inland fish market, trading before dawn a few minutes from the towers - the public can walk in and buy, and almost nobody does.
Camden Market
DailyHot foodCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Camden Passage
Wed & SatA flagstoned alley off Upper Street lined with antique dealers, vintage shops and cafes - and nothing at all to do with Camden Town, which catches people out.
Canopy Market
Wed-SunHot foodStreet food, makers and craft drinks under a restored Victorian iron canopy - covered, which makes it one of the few King's Cross options that works in bad weather.
Greenwich Market
DailyHot foodTrading since 1737 and the only London market inside a World Heritage site - designer-makers, antiques and a strong street food run under one roof.
Leadenhall Market
Mon-FriHot foodAn 1881 covered market in cream, maroon and green wrought iron, standing where the Roman forum was, and standing in for Diagon Alley on film.
Peninsula Al Fresco
DailyHot foodChurros, fried chicken, pizza and a spritz bar under pergolas outside the O2 - free giant Jenga and Connect Four keep it family-friendly rather than purely a food market.
Seven Dials Market
DailyHot foodTwo floors of independent food traders in a 1920s banana-ripening warehouse, with a stage for live music and a bookshop tucked in among the counters.
Thursday
8 markets
Billingsgate Fish Market
Tue-SatProduce, not mealsThe UK's largest inland fish market, trading before dawn a few minutes from the towers - the public can walk in and buy, and almost nobody does.
Camden Market
DailyHot foodCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Canopy Market
Wed-SunHot foodStreet food, makers and craft drinks under a restored Victorian iron canopy - covered, which makes it one of the few King's Cross options that works in bad weather.
Greenwich Market
DailyHot foodTrading since 1737 and the only London market inside a World Heritage site - designer-makers, antiques and a strong street food run under one roof.
Leadenhall Market
Mon-FriHot foodAn 1881 covered market in cream, maroon and green wrought iron, standing where the Roman forum was, and standing in for Diagon Alley on film.
Lower Stable Street Market
Thu-SunHot foodA different set of independent stallholders every weekend - homewares, clothing, art, books and food - alongside the permanent record shop, gallery and coffee roaster on the same street.
Peninsula Al Fresco
DailyHot foodChurros, fried chicken, pizza and a spritz bar under pergolas outside the O2 - free giant Jenga and Connect Four keep it family-friendly rather than purely a food market.
Seven Dials Market
DailyHot foodTwo floors of independent food traders in a 1920s banana-ripening warehouse, with a stage for live music and a bookshop tucked in among the counters.
Friday
10 markets
Billingsgate Fish Market
Tue-SatProduce, not mealsThe UK's largest inland fish market, trading before dawn a few minutes from the towers - the public can walk in and buy, and almost nobody does.
Camden Market
DailyHot foodCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Canopy Market
Wed-SunHot foodStreet food, makers and craft drinks under a restored Victorian iron canopy - covered, which makes it one of the few King's Cross options that works in bad weather.
Golborne Road
Fri-SatHot food and produceThe far end past the Westway, where the antiques give way to midcentury furniture, Moroccan groceries and Portuguese cafes - and the prices drop with the tourist numbers.
Greenwich Market
DailyHot foodTrading since 1737 and the only London market inside a World Heritage site - designer-makers, antiques and a strong street food run under one roof.
Leadenhall Market
Mon-FriHot foodAn 1881 covered market in cream, maroon and green wrought iron, standing where the Roman forum was, and standing in for Diagon Alley on film.
Lower Stable Street Market
Thu-SunHot foodA different set of independent stallholders every weekend - homewares, clothing, art, books and food - alongside the permanent record shop, gallery and coffee roaster on the same street.
Peninsula Al Fresco
DailyHot foodChurros, fried chicken, pizza and a spritz bar under pergolas outside the O2 - free giant Jenga and Connect Four keep it family-friendly rather than purely a food market.
Seven Dials Market
DailyHot foodTwo floors of independent food traders in a 1920s banana-ripening warehouse, with a stage for live music and a bookshop tucked in among the counters.
Southbank Centre Food Market
Fri-SunHot foodThirty-odd stalls behind the Royal Festival Hall, steps from the National Theatre - Caribbean, Venezuelan, Ethiopian and Punjabi among them, and one of the few South Bank options that is not a chain.
Saturday
13 markets
Billingsgate Fish Market
Tue-SatProduce, not mealsThe UK's largest inland fish market, trading before dawn a few minutes from the towers - the public can walk in and buy, and almost nobody does.
Broadway Market
SaturdayHot food and produceA hundred and twenty stalls of food, vintage and produce running from the canal to London Fields, with seventy independent shops behind them that trade all week.
Camden Market
DailyHot foodCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Camden Passage
Wed & SatA flagstoned alley off Upper Street lined with antique dealers, vintage shops and cafes - and nothing at all to do with Camden Town, which catches people out.
Canopy Market
Wed-SunHot foodStreet food, makers and craft drinks under a restored Victorian iron canopy - covered, which makes it one of the few King's Cross options that works in bad weather.
Golborne Road
Fri-SatHot food and produceThe far end past the Westway, where the antiques give way to midcentury furniture, Moroccan groceries and Portuguese cafes - and the prices drop with the tourist numbers.
Greenwich Market
DailyHot foodTrading since 1737 and the only London market inside a World Heritage site - designer-makers, antiques and a strong street food run under one roof.
Lower Stable Street Market
Thu-SunHot foodA different set of independent stallholders every weekend - homewares, clothing, art, books and food - alongside the permanent record shop, gallery and coffee roaster on the same street.
Maltby Street Market
Sat-SunHot foodA narrow ropewalk of food traders wedged under the railway arches since 2010 - oysters, waffles, gin and a scotch egg stall with a permanent queue.
Peninsula Al Fresco
DailyHot foodChurros, fried chicken, pizza and a spritz bar under pergolas outside the O2 - free giant Jenga and Connect Four keep it family-friendly rather than purely a food market.
Portobello Road Market
SaturdayHot food and produceTwo miles of stalls running from antiques at the Notting Hill end through fruit and veg to vintage under the Westway - the largest antiques market in Britain.
Seven Dials Market
DailyHot foodTwo floors of independent food traders in a 1920s banana-ripening warehouse, with a stage for live music and a bookshop tucked in among the counters.
Southbank Centre Food Market
Fri-SunHot foodThirty-odd stalls behind the Royal Festival Hall, steps from the National Theatre - Caribbean, Venezuelan, Ethiopian and Punjabi among them, and one of the few South Bank options that is not a chain.
Sunday
9 markets
Camden Market
DailyHot foodCamden Lock, the Stables and Hawley Wharf run together into the best-known collection of street vendors in Britain - vintage, records, band merch and several hundred food stalls.
Canopy Market
Wed-SunHot foodStreet food, makers and craft drinks under a restored Victorian iron canopy - covered, which makes it one of the few King's Cross options that works in bad weather.
Columbia Road Flower Market
SundayA Victorian street packed shoulder to shoulder with flower sellers shouting prices down, plus the independent shops behind them that only open when the market does.
Greenwich Market
DailyHot foodTrading since 1737 and the only London market inside a World Heritage site - designer-makers, antiques and a strong street food run under one roof.
Lower Stable Street Market
Thu-SunHot foodA different set of independent stallholders every weekend - homewares, clothing, art, books and food - alongside the permanent record shop, gallery and coffee roaster on the same street.
Maltby Street Market
Sat-SunHot foodA narrow ropewalk of food traders wedged under the railway arches since 2010 - oysters, waffles, gin and a scotch egg stall with a permanent queue.
Peninsula Al Fresco
DailyHot foodChurros, fried chicken, pizza and a spritz bar under pergolas outside the O2 - free giant Jenga and Connect Four keep it family-friendly rather than purely a food market.
Seven Dials Market
DailyHot foodTwo floors of independent food traders in a 1920s banana-ripening warehouse, with a stage for live music and a bookshop tucked in among the counters.
Southbank Centre Food Market
Fri-SunHot foodThirty-odd stalls behind the Royal Festival Hall, steps from the National Theatre - Caribbean, Venezuelan, Ethiopian and Punjabi among them, and one of the few South Bank options that is not a chain.