Markets in Gandia

Staying in Gandia Town Centre puts you walking distance from the covered market and the old town streets the street markets set up in, and Hotel Bayren Parador is the more comfortable option with good transport links back into the centre. In summer, Gandia Playa puts the beach and the port market on your doorstep, a short bus ride from town.

Five street markets share the week between the centre and the port, with Saturday the peak at four of the six trading. The largest carries around 45 stalls, enough to draw shoppers from across the La Safor comarca, with clothing, footwear, handicrafts, jewellery and prepared foods alongside the food. The smaller ones are more specialised, from artisan goods to antiques, and a couple set up near the beach rather than in the old town.

Changes for fair weeks and public holidays are published on the Gandia town hall commerce page.

Prado Market is the covered market and the town's fresh food anchor, with 25 stalls trading weekly. Because it is indoors it keeps to its hours whatever the weather, which makes it the dependable option when the outdoor markets have finished for the week. Its counters run to produce, meat, fish and cheese rather than clothing and household goods.

The coast of Valencia province is dense with weekly markets. Oliva, around 10 km south, and Xàtiva inland both run their own, and either is easy to pair with Gandia by car.

Gandia has a market on every day except Sunday, and Saturday is the biggest, with four of its six markets trading. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday each have three, and Monday and Wednesday two. The largest street market carries around 45 stalls; Prado Market, the covered one, trades weekly with 25.

Markets in Gandia usually open at 9am and close at around 2pm, which is the commonest pattern across all six. That applies to the street markets and to the covered Prado Market alike, so plan a market visit for the morning. Traders on the outdoor markets often begin dismantling stalls before the closing hour.

Gandia sells its farm produce through its street markets and the covered Prado Market rather than through a separate farmers market. Fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and poultry, fish and seafood, and cheese and dairy are all on the stalls, with the strongest food selection indoors at Prado Market's 25 counters.

Yes, a street market runs weekly in the Grau de Gandia port district, with 15 outdoor stalls given over mainly to clothing and handicrafts. It sits near the beach rather than in the old town, which makes it the easy option if you are staying at Gandia Playa, and it keeps to the same 9am to 2pm morning as the rest of the town's markets.

Gandia's six markets sell fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and seafood, meat and poultry, cheese and dairy, and bread and bakery on the food side, and clothing and textiles, footwear and leather, jewellery, antiques, handicrafts, flowers and plants and prepared foods on the rest. The covered market leans food, the street markets lean clothing and crafts.