Guangdong (广东省) · 29 markets · 13 cities
29 markets in Guangdong, grouped by city. The opening column is the part to read first: a country market stands empty except on its own dates. Chinese addresses are given as they are written, which is the form to show a driver.
Most common here: Fishing port (10), Night market (5), Country market (4). See all provinces, or what the six kinds of market are and why most of them are shut today.
6 markets
Guangzhou (广州)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Beijing Road Pedestrian Street (北京路步行街)The axis Guangzhou has used for a thousand years, with Song, Ming and Qing road surfaces visible under glass. Beef offal, fish balls, sweet soups and Cantonese cured meat.(越秀区北京路（千年古道遗址），地铁2/6号线北京路站) | Night market | Daily · 10:00 to 22:00 |
| Guangzhou Night Market Circuit (广州夜市网络（员村/琶醍/体育西路等）)Night markets by district. Yuancun is where residents go, with Zhanjiang oysters over charcoal, while Party Pier is the beer market on the Pearl River.(天河区员村夜市（地铁员村站 C 口，16:00–23:00）；海珠区琶醍啤酒夜市（有轨电车琶醍站，至凌晨 1:00）；天河区体育西路（17:30–24:00）) | Night market | Times not recorded |
| Guangzhou Spring Festival Flower Fair (广州迎春花市（11区组合卡 · 国家级非遗”行花街”）)The Cantonese new year custom listed as national intangible heritage in 2021, running from the 23rd of the last lunar month to new year’s eve. Kumquat, peach blossom and narcissus.(广州11区分别设点（核心：越秀区西湖路/教育路；海珠区滨江西路/宝岗大道；天河体育中心；荔湾路；黄埔海丝城；白云；花都花卉之都；南沙海滨路；从化风云岭；增城广场）) | Flower market | Festival dates · 10:00 to 22:00 |
| Huangsha Seafood Center (黄沙水产中心)One of three great live seafood wholesale markets in the country, trading more than 320,000 tonnes a year and treated as a price barometer. Moved to a new quay in September 2025.(荔湾区东洛围码头（2025年9月8日搬迁新址）) | Fishing port | Daily · 2:00 to 6:00 |
| Qingping Chinese Herbal Medicine Market (清平中药材市场)Guangzhou’s only national market for medicinal herbs, forty years old, with more than 1,800 stalls and 500 kinds of material, from soup herbs to costly tonics.(荔湾区六二三路/清平路) | Seasonal fair | One season a year · 8:00 to 18:00 |
| Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street (上下九步行街)Arcaded shopfronts through the old Xiguan quarter, and described as the first all-day pedestrian street in the country. Double-skin milk, rice rolls, wonton noodles, radish with beef offal, and morning tea.(荔湾区上下九路（中国第一条全天候步行街），地铁1号线长寿路站 D 口步行 300 米) | Night market | Daily · 9:00 to 22:30 |
5 markets
Shantou (汕头)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Nan’ao Yun’ao Fishing Port & Shanding Market (汕头南澳云澳渔港 + 山顶市场)Listed as the largest national fishing harbour in eastern Guangdong, built in 2013 with shelter for more than a thousand boats. Line-caught fish reaches the quay between three and five in the afternoon.(广东省汕头市南澳岛云澳镇（云澳国家中心渔港，云澳湾）；山顶市场位于南澳岛后宅镇) | Fishing port | Daily · 15:00 to 17:00 |
| Shantou Longyan Market (汕头龙眼市场)One of the markets that shows Chaoshan cooking whole. Restaurant chefs buy the live seafood, there is a counter of raw-marinated shellfish, and the beef ball stalls let you taste before buying.(金平区龙眼南路) | Morning market | Daily · 6:30 to 19:30 |
| Shantou Longyan South Road Food Street (汕头龙眼南路美食街)Where Shantou eats rather than where it takes visitors, seven in the morning to midnight. Beef hotpot, rice noodles, oyster pancake, liquorice fruit and bean curd.(汕头市龙眼南路) | Night market | Daily · 7:00 to 24:00 |
| Shantou Tianhuan Seafood Market (汕头天环海鲜市场)Reported to supply about 80 per cent of Shantou’s seafood, from cheap sea snails to lobster, at close to half the price of the island markets.(龙湖区市区) | Fishing port | Daily · 5:00 to 18:00 |
| Shantou Xindahua Market (汕头新大华市场)A market with almost no visitors, where people arrive on old motorbikes for the day’s food and hand-made snacks.(金平区市区) | Everyday market | Daily · 6:00 to 18:00 |
4 markets
Shenzhen (深圳)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Dongmen Old Street (东门老街)Three hundred years old and described as the oldest commercial street in Shenzhen, grown out of a wholesale market. Stinky tofu, oyster omelette, hand-beaten beef ball noodles and sweet soups.(罗湖区东门步行街（深圳最古老商圈），地铁1号线老街站) | Night market | Daily · 17:00 to 22:00 |
| Shenzhen Aiguo Road Spring Festival Flower Fair (深圳爱国路迎春花市)Shenzhen’s main new year flower market, opening about two weeks before the holiday. Flowers, new year goods, lantern displays and a parade.(深圳市罗湖区爱国路) | Flower market | Festival dates |
| Shenzhen Futian Agricultural Wholesale Market (深圳福田农产品批发市场)Described as the largest agricultural wholesale market in central Shenzhen, built around seafood and dried goods: king crab, Boston lobster, fish maw and sea cucumber. Metro to the door.(福田区梅林街道梅林路110号) | Seasonal fair | One season a year · 8:00 to 18:00 |
| Shenzhen Luofang Seafood Wholesale Market (深圳罗芳海鲜批发市场)A 24-hour seafood wholesale market in Luohu, at its busiest between three and six in the morning, with grill houses nearby that will cook what is bought.(罗湖区罗芳路1号（8号线新秀站A出口）) | Fishing port | Daily · 3:00 to 6:00 |
3 markets
Chaozhou (潮州)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Chaozhou Fengchun Market (潮州枫春市场)Described as the largest market in Chaozhou, 6.6 hectares with 400 units, moving 200 tonnes of vegetables a day and supplying eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian.(湘桥区枫春路) | Everyday market | Daily · 5:00 to 19:00 |
| Chaozhou Paifang Street (潮州牌坊街)Twenty-two Ming and Qing stone arches over an arcaded street. Rice noodle soup, rice rolls, beef balls, oyster pancake and the sweet dumpling called yamuniang.(湘桥区牌坊街（东门街至南门古街），古城内步行) | Old-street market | Daily |
| Chaozhou Xixin Morning Market (潮州西新市场早市)Where Chaozhou buys breakfast, half past five to eleven. A hundred yuan covers a spread of Chaoshan snacks, and the beef ball stalls let you taste first.(湘桥区西新路/西新南路) | Morning market | Daily · 5:30 to 11:00 |
2 markets
Zhanjiang (湛江)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Xiashan Seafood Wholesale Market (Fisherman’s Wharf) (霞山水产品批发市场（渔人码头）)Listed as the largest seafood clearing house in western Guangdong and a national wholesale market. Boats unload between four and six, and by seven the local pensioners are buying.(霞山区胜利长堤路渔人码头负一层) | Fishing port | Daily · 5:00 to 7:00 |
| Zhanjiang Dongfeng Seafood Market (湛江东风海鲜市场)One of the older markets in Zhanjiang, about 300 stalls moving some 150 tonnes a day. Wholesale from four in the morning, with fresh stock again after three when the boats return.(霞山区东堤路/民治路) | Fishing port | Daily · 6:00 to 9:00 |
2 markets
Zhuhai (珠海)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Zhuhai Chaoyang Market (珠海朝阳市场)An old Zhuhai market with a zone kept for fishermen selling their own catch, and a cooking floor on the third storey.(香洲区朝阳路34号) | Fishing port | Daily · 7:00 to 9:00 |
| Zhuhai Wanzai Seafood Street (珠海湾仔海鲜街)Seafood stalls on one side and kitchens on the other, with Macao across the water. Buy, carry across, and eat looking at the lights.(香洲区湾仔街道南湾南路) | Fishing port | Daily · 18:00 to 21:00 |
1 market
Dongguan (东莞)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Dongguan Shayuan Market (东莞沙苑市场)A neighbourhood market with clear sections, and a pastry shop of twenty years where one yuan buys a dim sum.(莞城街道沙苑) | Everyday market | Daily · 6:00 to 19:00 |
1 market
Foshan (佛山)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Shunde Lunjiao Sanzhou Periodic Market (顺德伦教三洲墟)A Sunday market of more than 500 open-air stalls that packs up at noon sharp. Flowers and plants, birds and fish, farm produce and fruit. Bring a trolley.(顺德区伦教街道三洲) | Country market | Weekly · 6:00 to 12:00 |
1 market
Maoming (茂名)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Bohe Fishing Port Dawn Market (博贺渔港天光墟)A dawn market that opens at two in the morning and ends with daylight, beside a harbour listed among the ten largest in the country. Prawns, mantis shrimp, squid, mackerel and grouper straight from the hold.(滨海新区（电白）博贺镇) | Fishing port | Daily · 3:00 to 5:00 |
1 market
Meizhou (梅州)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Meizhou Meixian Shuiche Town Periodic Market (梅州梅县水车镇圩)A Hakka market day on the 1st, 4th and 7th, in a town holding a round-house village known as a museum of Hakka dwellings. Traders come from as far as Jiangxi and Fujian.(梅县区水车镇) | Country market | Lunar dates 1, 4, 7 of each ten-day run · 6:00 to 14:00 |
1 market
Shanwei (汕尾)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Shanwei Honghaiwan Shuguiliao Market (汕尾红海湾水龟寮市场)Three windows in a day: iced mixed fish from six, boats unloading between seven and nine, and a second landing from half past two in the afternoon.(城区红海湾街道) | Fishing port | Daily · 7:00 to 9:00 |
1 market
Zhaoqing (肇庆)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Zhaoqing Gaoyao Lubu Periodic Market (肇庆高要禄步圩)A market day on dates ending 1, 4 and 7 beside the West River, with river fish, seasonal produce and bamboo ware.(高要区禄步镇) | Country market | On set dates · 6:00 to 15:00 |
1 market
Zhongshan (中山)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Zhongshan Shagang Periodic Market (中山沙岗墟)A market ground with more than 500 years behind it, on the 3rd, 6th and 9th of the lunar month. Farm produce, birds and fish, clothes, second-hand goods and bonsai.(东区街道康华路) | Country market | Lunar dates 3, 6, 9 of each ten-day run · 6:00 to 17:00 |
Going on the Right Day
Market dates move, and the ones that run on the lunar calendar move against the calendar on your phone. Tell our local team where you will be and on which dates, and they will say which of these are open while you are there and which are worth the detour.