Markets in Xàbia

Staying in Xàbia Old Town puts you within easy walking distance of the weekly market and the town's main squares, and it's the most convenient base if you want to explore on foot. For something closer to the sea, El Arenal is a popular beachside area with plenty of accommodation options and good transport links into the centre.

If you prefer a hotel stay, Parador de Xàbia is a reliable, well-located choice with comfortable rooms and a relaxed atmosphere that suits a market-day visit perfectly.

The largest regular outdoor market brings 30 stalls to the old town on a Thursday, selling clothing, footwear, handicrafts, fresh fruit and fresh vegetables, and winding down around midday. It is the one most people mean when they look up market day in Jávea.

Craft and gastronomy fairs make up most of the rest. The biggest fields 75 stalls at Easter, more than double the Thursday market, covering handicrafts, antiques and prepared foods with more of a festival feel than a routine weekly market, and two smaller art and craft fairs trade outdoors alongside it. Jewellery joins the clothing and footwear on the town's general street pitches.

The Jávea Municipal Market is the town's main covered food hall, with 25 stalls under one roof in the old town selling fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and poultry, fish and seafood, and cheese and dairy. The building was raised on the site of a 17th-century convent and inaugurated in 1946.

The town's second indoor market is smaller at 15 stalls and narrower in focus, concentrating on fish and seafood alongside prepared foods.

Thursday is the busiest day in Xàbia, with 4 of the 7 markets trading, ahead of Saturday on 3 and Wednesday and Friday on 2 each. Monday and Tuesday carry one apiece and nothing trades on a Sunday. Stalls most often set up at 8am and the latest closings are at 8pm, though the Thursday street market packs up by lunchtime. Two of the seven have no confirmed trading day on record.

Thursday is the main market day in Javea, when a 30-stall street market fills the old town and 4 of the town's 7 markets trade in total. Saturday is the next busiest with 3, Wednesday and Friday have 2 each, and nothing trades on a Sunday. The Thursday market sets up in the morning and packs up by lunchtime.

Yes, Javea has two indoor markets. The 25-stall Jávea Municipal Market is the main covered food hall, built on the site of a 17th-century convent and inaugurated in 1946, selling fruit and vegetables, meat and poultry, fish and cheese. The second hall is smaller at 15 stalls and sticks to fish, seafood and prepared foods.

Xàbia's markets sell fish and seafood, meat and poultry, fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, cheese and dairy across the two covered halls, and clothing, footwear, jewellery, handicrafts and antiques on the street pitches. Prepared foods turn up in both, at the indoor halls and at the craft and gastronomy fairs.

Yes, Xàbia's old town hosts most of the town's markets, including the Thursday street market with 30 stalls and the 25-stall Jávea Municipal Market, built on the site of a 17th-century convent. Craft and gastronomy fairs, among them a 75-stall Easter fair, also trade in the old town alongside two smaller art and craft events.