The Best Markets to Visit in Tasmania

The Best Tasmanian Farmers Markets

Farm Gate Market, Hobart

Every Sunday, central Hobart’s Bathurst Street becomes awash with farm produce, baked goods, and a number of food trucks as the city’s biggest farmers market takes place. This is the best place in Hobart to get produce from the surrounding area, and to meet the people who grow, produce, or make it!

Bream Creek Farmers Market, Bream Creek

Held at the local showgrounds on the first Sunday of the month, this volunteer-run farmers market has a nice atmosphere and is a great place to pick up plenty of fresh local produce as well as preserves, olive oil, nuts, and even local wine to enjoy on the grass with live music.

Harvest Market, Launceston

This is undoubtedly the place to go in Launceston to connect with the region’s growers. Nearly a hundred local businesses and producers take part, showcasing the incredible range of food products being made around northern Tasmania. Whether you’re after cut flowers, alcoholic spirits, fresh veggies, pet treats or honey, you won’t be disappointed by a visit to Harvest Market. Held on Cimitiere Street every Saturday (8:30am-12:30pm).

Burnie Farmers Market, Burnie

Tasmania’s oldest community-run farmers market is still going strong. Come to the Wivenhoe Showgrounds between 8am-12pm on the first and third Saturday of each month, and enjoy fresh-as-can-be produce and handmade crafts in a wholesome, rural atmosphere.

Oatlands Community Market, Oatlands

A small but strongly community-minded rural market, which takes place on the first Sunday of each month (from 10am-2pm), Oatlands Community Market brings together local farmers, jewellers, designers, bakers, booksellers, and other local producers in a pretty, heritage setting in the Southern Midlands.

Devonport Farmers Market, Devonport

Fresh local produce, strong coffee, wild honey and handmade Italian pasta, there’s a bit of everything to be found at this buzzing northwestern seaside market, which takes every second Saturday from 8:30am. This is a particularly good market for fresh local seafood: scallops, oysters, crayfish, and Tassie’s classic blue eye trevalla are all on offer almost straight from the wharf.

Meet the Producer Market, Lilydale

The clue here is in the title: this is a classic, hard-core farmers market, where you can be sure that what you’re getting is the real deal. If you’re still unsure, you can ask the person you’re getting it from – because they either grew, made, or caught it. Capturing producers of the region around Tamar and Scottsdale as well, you can find wine, spirits, designer goods, and much more than “just” fresh veggies and baked goods here. It happens every Sunday on the Main Street of Lilydale.

Salamanca Market, Hobart

Tasmania’s most popular and most famous market (Salamanca) takes place just off Hobart’s waterfront every Saturday from 8:30am - 3:00pm. Expect to find everything from fresh produce and tasty food stalls to handmade gifts and designer products. It’s an outdoor street market (at Salamanca Place), but it operates in all weather.  This is undoubtedly a "Must Do" Hobart activity.

Penguin Undercover Market, Penguin

Loads of stalls, good coffee, live music and only a short distance from the beach’s iconic giant penguin statue. What’s not to like about this busy weekly market? It takes place every Sunday, and it has something for everyone: from boutique handicrafts to second-hand bargains.

Margate Train Market, Margate

The restored railway carriages of Tasmania’s last passenger train are the venue for this unique Tasmanian market. Every Sunday, stalls of all sorts cram into the former railway station space, offering everything from live plants and fresh produce to bric-a-brac and handmade wares. The old buffet car is now a cool cafe, and there’s even a huge antiques and second-hand warehouse nearby, in an old apple packing shed, for even more bargains.

Night Markets

Margate Summer Twilight Market 

This only takes place a few times a year, but it’s worth checking to see whether a trip to or through Margate would line up with it. With live music, over 20 stalls, a range of food trucks, even a full bar and local gin and whisky distillers, there’s plenty for everyone.

Hobart Night Market, Long Beach 

A fun, festive Friday-night market that takes over the beach with live local music, fresh and hot food trucks, and plenty of brews and spirits on offer from local makers, this is a fun night market to visit while in Tasmania. It’s dog- and family-friendly, too, with plenty of space for both to run around.

Launceston Night Market

Taking over Civic Square on select Friday nights from 4pm-9pm, this is a fun market showcasing local Launceston musical talents alongside some of the region’s best boutique wine, spirit and beverage makers. There’s also no shortage of amazing food options: Lebanese, Mexican, Spanish and authentic southern American are just a few of those regularly on offer!

Brooke St Pier Twilight Market, Hobart

With a great location and a buzzing vibe, this cool night market spreads across the pier but its sound emanates all around the Hobart Waterfront, giving it a real festival feel. There are plenty of small-batch drink makers and food producers, as well as local Hobart artists and designers with their wares on show.

Bicheno Twilight Market 

Although only taking place a few times throughout the year, this popular night market is definitely worth going to if you’re in the area. It oozes laid-back East Coast vibes and always features great live music, as well as delicious fresh local seafood, refreshing drinks, and tasty snacks to keep you going.

Craft & Design Markets

The Market, Hobart

Although not a regular market with standardised dates, The Market is a special-event art and design market that takes place several times a year. It showcases some of Tasmania’s best boutique independent Tasmanian artists and designers.

The Barn Market, Rosny

Combining locally-made clothing, artworks and jewellery with locally-made (or -roasted) cider, wine and coffee, this is a great market to visit on the first Sunday of the month.

Kingston Beach Handmade Market, Kingston

A funky artists’ market just a few steps from the beach, this takes place on Sundays between 10am-3pm.

Axeman’s Makers’ Market, Wynyard

You’ll struggle to find a better Tasmanian market for showcasing craftsmanship than this popular Wynyard collection of woodworkers, leather workers, dressmakers, and other artisans. It takes place every Sunday between 9am-3pm.

Bridport Village Market

Held inside the local CWA Hall, this market gives Bridport’s vibrant creative community a chance to share and showcase their wares. In addition to handmade crafts and beautiful gifts, there’s also plenty of fresh produce from growers in the region.

Community Markets

Collinsvale Market

Taking place in the Community Hall monthly, on a Saturday, during the summer months, this is a small but rewarding local market, with a number of quality local products on offer like organic soap, boutique jewellery and natural skincare products.

Southern Beaches Market, Dodges Ferry

A bustling seaside market run by volunteers and featuring live music, face painting, and every locally made goodie from fresh bread and cut flowers to artisan Tasmanian timber products and handmade fashion items. The market dates can be sporadic, but generally it takes place the third Sunday of each month from October-March, with special-occasion markets on at other times.

Derwent Valley Community Market, New Norfolk 

This playful New Norfolk get-together advertises itself as the “friendliest market in Tasmania”, and it’s hard to argue. Music, crafts, food, and a lovely atmosphere, it happens 8am-2pm every Saturday, and is worth putting on your itinerary at any time of year.

Cygnet Market 

Another market combining live music, local artwork, fresh food and a vibrant atmosphere, Cygnet Market showcases the best that Tasmanian community markets have to offer visitors. It’s on the first and third Sunday of each month.

Sorell Community Market 

A small, strongly family-centred and community-centred affair, this local market operates its stallholders on a rotation system, meaning there’s always something different, and everybody has a chance to be involved. You therefore never know quite what to expect – other than a warm, small-town welcome. It happens at the Sorell Memorial Hall every Saturday in summer, and every second Saturday in winter. 

Country Markets

Deloraine Market

The archetypal Tasmanian country market, this takes place at the showgrounds on the first Saturday every month (except in the busy summer months of November and January). It’s an impressively big and busy affair, with games and entertainment to go with plenty of jams, preserves, cakes, baking, hot comfort food and fresh local produce.

Sheffield Town Hall Market 

A unique and singular country market in many ways, Sheffield is small but manages to have a diverse range of stalls – from live poultry to handmade stationery supplies. There’s plenty of food to be had, too. This market takes place on the second Saturday of each month, between 9am-3pm.

Wilmot Market 

Housed inside the Town Hall on Main Street, this country market really does have a bit of everything: locally made wine, a range of second-hand stalls and bric-a-brac, wild honey, even boutique olive oil and delicious sorbets. It happens the first Saturday of each month, 9 am-2 pm.

Evandale Market

Evandale’s pretty rows of quaint Georgian cottages provide the picturesque backdrop for this lovely Sunday market at Falls Park on Logan Road. Featuring over a hundred stalls as well as children’s games and plenty of entertainment, this is a guaranteed family outing.

Flea Markets & Bric-a-Brac

If you’re just looking for a good ol’ flea market, or somewhere to hunt out a bargain through piles of antiques and bric-a-brac, these Tasmanian markets are worth marking on your itinerary:

• All Saints Market, Hobart
• Hobart Showgrounds Sunday Market, Hobart
• Esk Market, Launceston
• My Closet Market, Launceston
• Blue Place Market, Kempton 
• Brighton Market 
• Bushy Park Market, Derwent Valley

Ready to go?

Whether you’ve started planning your Tasmanian holiday or not, check out First Light Travel’s Tasmania blog for any further information you might need. There’s a set of prescribed self-drive tour itineraries on there, many of which could include the markets listed here. Or, you can contact FLT’s Tasmanian travel team for advice and guidance on how to design your own Tassie trip.