Hunan (湖南省) · 24 markets · 8 cities
24 markets in Hunan, 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: Night market (13), Country market (7), Everyday market (3). See all provinces, or what the six kinds of market are and why most of them are shut today.
7 markets
Changsha (长沙)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Changsha Dongguashan Night Market (长沙冬瓜山夜市)The late street Changsha keeps for itself, six in the evening to two in the morning, thick with barbecue. Sausage, grilled skewers and peach in perilla.(天心区冬瓜山) | Night market | Daily · 18:00 to 2:00 |
| Changsha Hehuachi Fresh Market (长沙荷花池生鲜市场)Paired with Nanmenkou as one of Changsha’s two great markets, mostly local, with stalls as old as the building. Ten yuan feeds you, and the provincial tourism bureau lists it as a hidden sight.(开福区荷花池) | Everyday market | Daily · 6:00 to 19:00 |
| Changsha Nanmenkou Night Market (长沙南门口夜市)Old shop names beside young stalls and graffiti walls, six in the evening to midnight. Fried snacks, sweet rice wine, beef pastry and peach in perilla.(天心区南门口) | Night market | Daily · 18:00 to 24:00 |
| Changsha Nanmenkou Shangbixiang Street Market (长沙南门口上碧湘街菜市场)A street named for a palace of the Chu kingdom, and the market old Changsha still talks about. Sweet rice wine, sugar-oil dumplings and bound chicken from stalls decades in place.(天心区南门口上碧湘街) | Everyday market | Daily · 6:00 to 19:00 |
| Changsha Pozi Street (Tourist-oriented) (长沙坡子街（旅游型标注）)The food street visitors are sent to, and the home of the Huogongdian restaurant. Heavily commercial and mostly out-of-towners, but a first stop for stinky tofu.(天心区坡子街) | Night market | Daily · 10:00 to 24:00 |
| Nanmenkou Market & Night Market (南门口菜市场 + 南门口夜市)Described locally as one of the oldest markets in Changsha, flagstones and stalls held by the same families for three generations, with the night market running to half past midnight. Chopped chilli, bound chicken and sugar-oil dumplings.(天心区上碧湘街（南门口菜市场）；天心区西湖路一带（夜市）) | Night market | Daily · 6:00 to 19:00 |
| Taiping Street (太平街)The best known old street in Changsha, with two thousand years behind it, now arches and neon. Stinky tofu and sugar-oil dumplings.(天心区太平街（五一大道至解放西路），地铁2号线湘江中路站 2A 口步行 6 分钟) | Night market | Daily · 10:00 to 23:00 |
5 markets
Yueyang (岳阳)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Yueyang Baxianqiao Market Morning Fair (岳阳八仙桥菜市场（早市）)River fish sold by the basket from Dongting lake: whitebait, hairy shrimp and yellow catfish, with Yueyang rice noodles at the gate.(岳阳楼区八仙桥) | Morning market | Daily · 5:30 to 12:00 |
| Yueyang Dongmaoling Farmers Market (岳阳东茅岭菜市场)An old market by the pedestrian street, cleaned up and zoned. The pickled radish at one stall has been made the same way for thirty years.(岳阳楼区东茅岭) | Everyday market | Daily · 6:00 to 19:00 |
| Yueyang Paotaishan Night Market (岳阳炮台山夜市)Barbecue on a hillside above the water, paired with the grain depot market as the two Yueyang goes to at night.(岳阳楼区炮台山) | Night market | Daily · 17:00 to 24:00 |
| Yueyang Tianlun Starry Night Market (岳阳天伦星空夜市)A newer local night market, with Pingjiang pressed bean curd and Junshan sauced fish, and a cold noodle stall the same woman has run for over a decade.(岳阳楼区天伦城) | Night market | Daily · 17:00 to 24:00 |
| Yueyang Xiaogang Granary Night Market (岳阳小港粮库夜市)A grain depot turned night street, open from five, with a piano out on the road among the barbecue. Crayfish and river snails.(岳阳楼区洞庭南路) | Night market | Daily · 17:00 to 24:00 |
4 markets
Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西土家族苗族自治州)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Jishou Qianzhou Farmers Market (Miao Market Day) (吉首乾州农贸市场（苗族大集）)A Miao market day reachable by city bus in Jishou, with traders in Miao dress and a breakfast floor where the rice noodles are the point.(吉首市乾州街道) | Country market | Lunar dates 4, 9 of each ten-day run · 7:00 to 14:00 |
| Xiangxi Fenghuang Heku Miao Market (湘西凤凰禾库苗集)A fair deep in the hills where Miao dress is everyday rather than display: tall headcloths, blue working clothes, bamboo baskets. Miao clothing, silver and old objects change hands on the 1st and 6th.(凤凰县禾库镇) | Country market | Lunar dates 1, 6 of each ten-day run · 7:00 to 15:00 |
| Xiangxi Fenghuang Laershan Miao Market (湘西凤凰腊尔山苗集)Listed among the highest Miao towns in Xiangxi, with stalls along both sides of the road. A rice noodle shop of twenty years still charges three yuan.(凤凰县腊尔山镇) | Country market | Lunar dates 2, 7 of each ten-day run · 7:00 to 15:00 |
| Xiangxi Fenghuang Shanjiang Miao Market (湘西凤凰山江苗集（流动的苗族文化博物馆）)Called a moving museum of Miao culture, divided into heritage crafts, bamboo work and fresh food. Hand-dyed cloth, silver and embroidery, on the 3rd and 8th.(凤凰县山江镇) | Country market | Lunar dates 3, 8 of each ten-day run · 7:00 to 15:00 |
3 markets
Huaihua (怀化)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Huaihua Tongdao Dong Ethnic Market (怀化通道侗族赶集)A Dong market every five days, with hill produce and dishes made nowhere else: bullfrog smoked over a wood fire, and sweet vine cake.(通道侗族自治县双江镇) | Country market | On set dates · 7:00 to 14:00 |
| Huaihua Xinhuang County Market Day (Huangzhou Wind-Rain Bridge) (怀化新晃县城赶场（晃州风雨桥）)Market day in a Dong county on the Hunan and Guizhou border, held along the river by the wind and rain bridge. The fair before the lunar new year is the big one.(新晃侗族自治县晃州镇) | Country market | Lunar dates 4, 9 of each ten-day run · 6:00 to 14:00 |
| Xinhuang Longxi Evening Market (Longxi Ancient Town) (新晃龙溪晚市（龙溪古镇）)A seasonal evening market in a Ming-founded river town that was once one of three great wharves on the Yuan. Dong oil tea, fried cakes and pickled fish.(新晃侗族自治县龙溪古镇) | Night market | Daily · 17:00 to 22:00 |
2 markets
Changde (常德)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Changde Gaoshan Street Food Street (常德高山街-水星街美食街)A century-old street, 200 metres holding close to 300 shops. Pressed duck, salted duck, Changde beef noodles and dry-tossed rice noodles.(武陵区高山街) | Night market | Daily · 10:00 to 24:00 |
| Changde Shuixinglou Night Market (常德水星楼夜市)Open since 2010 with more than 300 stalls, beside the Wuling pedestrian quarter and a Ming tower rebuilt under Kangxi. Twenty yuan is enough.(武陵区水星街（下南门）) | Night market | Daily · 17:00 to 24:00 |
1 market
Fenghuang (凤凰)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Fenghuang Ancient Town Night Markets (凤凰古城夜市群（虹桥中路/回龙阁/老营哨）)Night markets along the Tuo river, properly busy only after ten and packing up at one. Chilled rice jelly at five yuan a bowl, grilled river fish, blood-cake duck and ginger candy.(虹桥中路与老营哨交叉口、回龙阁（沱江边）) | Night market | Daily |
1 market
Xiangxi (湘西乡镇)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| West Hunan Township Market Circuit (湘西乡镇赶集网络（腊尔山等）)Township markets rotating on the lunar calendar, Laershan on the 2nd and 7th and most others on the 3rd, 6th and 9th. Silver and bamboo work in the side streets, and fifty yuan covers the eating.(凤凰县腊尔山镇（农历逢二、七）；湘西土家族苗族自治州各乡镇（农历逢三、六、九为主，各乡镇不同）) | Country market | On set dates |
1 market
Zhuzhou (株洲)
| Market | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Zhuzhou Zhongguling Food Night Market (株洲钟鼓岭美食江湖夜市)Zhuzhou’s late-night street in the old town, trading to three in the morning. Braised pig trotter, grilled sweet potato skin and stinky tofu.(芦淞区钟鼓岭) | Night market | Daily · 17:00 to 3:00 |
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.