Shandong (山东省) · 18 markets · 6 cities
18 markets in Shandong, 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), Country market (5), Morning market (3). See all provinces, or what the six kinds of market are and why most of them are shut today.
4 markets
Qingdao (青岛)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Nanjiang Pier (南姜码头)A landing point for local boats, where the catch is sold first hand.(崂山区（公交 630 路姜哥庄站步行 700 米）) | Fishing port | Times not recorded |
| Tuandao Farmers’ Market (团岛农贸市场)Described locally as the oldest market in Qingdao, open from four in the morning. A third of it is seafood, from small local shellfish to king crab, and the boat-fresh stock goes before seven. Beer houses and cooking stalls inside.(市南区四川路 31 号（地铁 1 号线团岛站步行 5–6 分钟）) | Fishing port | Daily · 4:00 to 5:00 |
| Xiaogang Pier (小港码头)Fishermen selling straight off the boat, so what is available depends on the morning. Shrimp and small abalone at prices the markets cannot match.(市北区小港一路) | Fishing port | Times not recorded |
| Yingkou Road Seafood Market (营口路海鲜市场)The everyday seafood market for people who live in Qingdao, ringed by the beer houses that will cook what comes off the stall.(市北区营口路) | Fishing port | Times not recorded |
4 markets
Weihai (Rongcheng) (威海 / 荣成)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Rongcheng Beidajie Seafood Market (荣成北大街海鲜市场)The daily seafood market for Rongcheng, easy to reach and priced for people who shop there every week.(荣成市区（崖头）) | Fishing port | Times not recorded |
| Shidao Fair (石岛大集)A Wednesday and Saturday fair in a fishing town. Dried goods, mackerel dumplings and seaweed cakes.(荣成市石岛) | Country market | Weekly |
| Shidao Fishing Port & Chishan Farmers’ Market (石岛渔港 + 石岛农贸市场（赤山农贸市场）)Described as the largest fishing port in northern China, supplying buyers from the northeast down to the Yangtze delta. Wholesale trades in the small hours and the cheapest hour is before daylight.(荣成市石岛（石岛港；赤山农贸市场）) | Fishing port | Daily · 5:30 to 7:30 |
| Weihai Morning Markets (威海市区早市群（塔山/古陌/江峰）)Three city morning markets under one entry. Tashan and Gumo are the traditional pair; Jiangfeng is newer, wider in range and will cook what is bought.(环翠区塔山早市（近伴月湾）、古陌早市（近大相框）、江峰国际新农贸（近威海北站）) | Morning market | Times not recorded |
4 markets
Yantai (烟台)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Dongkou Harbor Fishery Market (东口抱港渔市（芝罘）)From 1 September, when the season opens, boats sell at the quay and the catch can be watched coming in. Salted fish and dried goods alongside.(芝罘区北岛东口码头) | Fishing port | Times not recorded |
| Penglai Dengzhou Market (蓬莱登州市场)Mostly seafood, with crab, mantis shrimp, oysters, scallops and abalone, and Penglai noodles and seafood pudding from the stalls around it.(蓬莱区南关路 128 号) | Fishing port | Times not recorded |
| Penglai Xishan Fishing Port & Mozhikou Seafood Market (蓬莱西山渔港码头 + 抹直口海鲜市场)Boats return after five in the afternoon at the harbour, while the village market runs at dawn. Clams, wild abalone, mackerel, mantis shrimp and oysters, sold in part by the women who gather them at low tide.(蓬莱区（西山渔港服务中心；抹直口村）) | Fishing port | Daily |
| Yangma Island Central Fishing Port / Longkou Gangluan Pier (牟平养马岛中心渔港 / 龙口港栾码头)Two landing points where boats sell direct once the season opens, and where the returning fleet is the reason to be there.(牟平区养马岛环岛路 908 号；龙口市港栾步行街与沿海路交叉路口) | Fishing port | Times not recorded |
3 markets
Jinan (济南)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Laodongmen Morning Market (老东门早市)A cheap, complete neighbourhood market, and a short walk from Daming Lake afterwards.(历下区东关大街 118 号（老东门万货汇购物广场）) | Morning market | Times not recorded |
| Minzu Dajie Market (民族大街市场)Eight hundred metres, snacks at the front and fresh food behind, under a red gateway. Beef pastries, old-style soy milk, chive cakes and duck tripe pancakes from the one stall that makes them.(市中区经八路与民族大街交叉口（经八路与民族大街交叉口，民族大街3号院）) | Morning market | Daily |
| Zhonggong Fair (仲宫大集)A fair that Jinan traces back two thousand years, with some 1,500 stalls on the 1st and 6th of the lunar month and a smaller one on the 3rd and 8th. Most of the new year goods are grown or made by the seller.(南部山区仲宫街道（317省道）) | Country market | Lunar dates 1, 6 of each ten-day run |
2 markets
Linyi (临沂)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Caowa Fair (曹洼大集（临沭）)Some 2,000 stalls over eleven hectares, opening on the 4th and 9th of the lunar month. Reported attendance has grown from 25,000 to as much as 150,000 in a day, with visitors from Jiangsu and Anhui among them.(临沂市临沭县临沭街道曹洼新集区) | Country market | Lunar dates 4, 9 of each ten-day run |
| Feixian Fair (费县大集)A hundred years old, on the 3rd and 8th of the lunar month, with a thousand stalls. Mutton soup and pancakes, plus the painted clay figures and paper cuts the county is known for.(临沂市费县东南峪村) | Country market | Lunar dates 3, 8 of each ten-day run |
1 market
Weifang (潍坊)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Weixian Fair (潍县大集（沙滩集）)Formed in the middle of the Qing dynasty under the name of the sand-bank fair, and described in Shandong sources as the largest in the province. At its height it drew crowds above a hundred thousand.(潍坊市区，原位于东风桥南北白浪河两侧河滩) | Country market | Times not recorded |
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.