10 Best Markets in Houston

Traders Village offers over 800 vendors with a vast range of goods and services from good old-fashioned burgers and funnel cake to rare antiques, jewelry, clothes, and crafts. The market also hosts festivals and events all year long, so it also lets you get in some entertainment and celebration while you browse for that perfect hidden treasure or souvenir of your trip here.

This one is a standout for its sheer size and range of goods. You can find everything from children's clothing to gourmet food and spices, from home décor to arts and crafts supplies, shoes, and just about anything you can imagine. It's all just about 24 minutes northwest of the downtown area.

The Houston Flea Market is a secondhand market in the heart of the city offering a range of goods from overstock items to gently used electronics, clothing, housewares, and more. Here you can shop dozens of vendors to find hidden treasures or those unique items that you never knew you needed, and get great deals while you do it. The vendors change regularly, so you can visit multiple times and always find new things.

An entire section of the indoor market is also dedicated to food, from canned goods to fresh produce to prepared foods. You can grab something to eat here while you browse the vendor stalls. It's a classic flea market experience and it's centrally located.

Sunny Flea Market offers great deals spread over 35 acres of open-air shopping space with authentic Mexican food, electronics, clothes, arts, crafts, and secondhand goods. This is a flea market that understands that it's also important to entertain visitors, so kids can enjoy taking pony rides between shopping the many toy vendors. This place can be a haven for collectors as well, where you'll find that lost toy from your childhood that you forgot about.

From food to cosmetics, clothing to home and garden, you can find just about anything at Sunny Flea Market. It's also centrally located about 13 minutes north of downtown, so it's easy to reach and spend a day outdoors shopping for great deals.

The Houston Farmers Market is the longest-running and among the largest such markets in the city, with over 18 acres of diverse products and community events. As you explore the stalls here, you will shop, eat, and even learn to cook just like a local. You'll find produce, prepared foods, live entertainment, coffee, sit-down restaurants, meats, and even the occasional arts and crafts groups.

The market is also easy to reach, just 8 minutes away from the center of downtown to the north. It's a wonderful place to spend the day taking workshops and classes, finding authentic Mexican spices and recipes, and taking in the true Tex-Mex culture.

The Urban Harvest East Side Farmer's Market offers endless vendor stalls offering arts, crafts, fresh produce, prepared foods, and other services, all supporting local community programs. The market is run by a nonprofit organization whose goal is to enrich the local community with community gardens, gardening classes, youth education, and other such programs, so shopping here helps local communities in need.

The market is located just about a 15-minute drive from the center of downtown. It's a great day out for the entire family, and it's all for a good cause.

The Azteca Farmer's Market offers a unique place for small businesses to showcase their wares, as well as a community meeting place for shoppers to find treasures in cozy surroundings. The market hosts more than 50 vendors with various fruits, vegetables, spices, prepared foods, Mexican arts and crafts, clothing, and other goods and services. They have 13 acres of space and are constantly adding new vendors.

The market is located in the East End neighborhood of Houston, about 8 minutes to the east of the city. It's a quick jaunt and a wide-open space with a welcoming environment where it's easy to spend a whole day browsing and buying.

The Memorial Villages Farmers Market offers quality vendors of new and secondhand goods, fresh and prepared food, demonstrations, lectures, and even live entertainment for a day out in Houston. As you browse the many shelves here, you'll find baked goods, fresh coffee, homemade jelly, and produce, and you can attend food demonstrations and guest lectures.

Besides the vendors, kids here can run around on playgrounds, you can enjoy live music performances from local bands, and you can take in the many events they host all year long. It's about 15 minutes to the West of downtown and is open one day a week.

The East End Farmers Market offers farm-to-table fruits and vegetables, locally sourced dairy products and eggs, prepared foods, handmade arts and crafts, and other wares. Normally open on Sundays, it's also known for its Last Friday Night Market events held on the last Friday of every month that expand the offerings and bring in live entertainment from some of the best local acts in a wide range of genres.

The East End Farmers Market is located in Houston's East End just a few minutes’ drive to the east of the downtown area. It's also located in front of a historic restaurant so you can go to grab a meal at an iconic locale while you're in the area.

Eleanora's Market offers over 30 vendors selling quality meats, cheeses, pastries, jams, textiles, arts, crafts, floral arrangements, and other items every Saturday. It's a fun and family-friendly experience along Ella Boulevard just about 15 minutes' drive to the northwest of downtown Houston. Here, you'll find a broad and eclectic range of offerings, many made by local artisans. It's also a dog-friendly venue, so it's okay to put Fido on a leash and bring your furry family member along for the ride.

The market is open rain or shine but is an outdoor market, so if you come on a rainy day, bring an umbrella. It's a tradition in Houston and the atmosphere here is vibrant, lively, and fun.

The Braeswood Farmers Market is a Texas Department of Agriculture-Certified Market that offers fresh produce, prepared food, food trucks, and other offerings all year long, rain or shine. Here, you can find farm-fresh offerings including everything from meats and cheeses to fruits and vegetables, spices, prepared foods, jams and jellies, pies, and many others. You'll find sweet treats like candy and baked goods, delicious coffee, and just about everything else you can imagine.

This is a market that's heavily focused on food, but the sheer range of food here is mind-blowing whether you're in for breakfast or lunch. It's located in the Meyerland neighborhood, just 20 minutes' drive to the southwest of downtown.