Flea markets, swap meets, and auction barns in California
Flea markets, swap meets, and auction barns in California, each compiled from its own sources: market days, season, and stall fees. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Alameda Point Antiques FaireAlameda · Antique showA monthly antiques faire on the old runways of Naval Air Station Alameda, where more than 800 dealers may sell only goods at least 20 years old.
- Berkeley Flea MarketBerkeley · Open-air marketplaceThe Berkeley Flea Market has been a Bay Area cultural landmark since the early 1970s, grown out of the community surrounding the Ashby BART station and known for global crafts, music, food, and strong roots in African American culture.
- Long Beach Antique MarketLong Beach · Antique flea market / swap meetMonthly open-air antiques and collectibles market: on the third Sunday, 20 acres of Veterans Stadium fill with antiques, collectibles, and vintage goods at bargain prices, drawing dealers, designers, and celebrities.
- Madera Flea MarketMaderaA Wednesday and Sunday swap meet on about 35 acres of the Madera, California, fairgrounds, family run since 1987, where Oaxacan produce shares lettered rows with work boots.
- Melrose Trading PostLos Angeles · Community marketA Sunday market of more than 250 makers at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, begun by two actors in 1997; its first proceeds bought books and desk chairs.
- Modesto Livestock Auction and Flea MarketModesto · Livestock auction and flea marketA family-owned livestock auction and three-day flea market on Modesto's South Seventh Street, where goats, hogs and rabbits have sold on Mondays since, by its own account, 1939.
- Nipomo Swapmeet & FleamarketNipomo · Outdoor swapmeet and fleamarketA Sunday open-air market of more than 300 vendors off Highway 101 in Nipomo, California, where a guitar store began in 1983 with $6,000 of broken horns and guitars.
- Oakland Coliseum Swap MeetOakland · Swap meet and public marketAn open-air swap meet on a former drive-in lot in East Oakland, open seven days a week, where the old movie screen still stands over the kiddy train.
- OCC Swap MeetCosta Mesa · Flea marketA weekend flea market in an Orange Coast College parking lot in Costa Mesa, California, whose stall fees paid for the college's community classes and performing-arts season.
- Pasadena City College Flea MarketPasadena · Flea marketA monthly antiques and collectibles flea market; over 400 vendors in the Pasadena City College parking lots along the West side of campus.
- Redwood Flea MarketEureka · Monthly flea marketA 14,000 sqft venue offering a wide variety of items such as antique furniture, vintage toys, video games, handmade crafts, jewelry, artwork, vintage clothing, books, comics, retro electronics, sports memorabilia, trinkets and more; self-styled Humboldt's Biggest indoor Flea Market!
- Rose Bowl Flea MarketPasadena · Monthly flea marketOutdoor mega flea market held the second Sunday of each month at the Rose Bowl stadium parking lot, with over 2,500 vendors and 20,000 buyers every month; called the world's most unusual flea market and the shopping place of the stars.
- San Joaquin County Fairgrounds Flea MarketStockton · Open air flea marketAn open-air flea market on the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds carnival lot in Stockton, California, held on weekday mornings since 1996, busiest on Thanksgiving with up to 10,000 visitors.
- San Jose Capitol Flea MarketSan Jose · Open-air marketVisit the San Jose Capitol Flea Market, a lively open-air market where you can shop for bargains, fresh produce, clothing, antiques, and more. Enjoy great food, unique finds, and a fun, family-friendly atmosphere every weekend.
- San Jose Flea MarketSan Jose · Flea marketThe San Jose Flea Market on Berryessa Road, open since March 1960 on a former slaughterhouse site, where a quarter-mile produce row and a 1950 Allan Herschell carousel share the grounds.
- Santa Fe Springs Swap MeetSanta Fe Springs · Swap meetA swap meet on Alondra Boulevard in Santa Fe Springs, California, spread over the grounds of the 1953 La Mirada Drive-In, with banda and tribute bands on its stage.
- Solano Swap MeetConcord · Open-air marketA lively open-air market where you can shop for bargains, fresh produce, clothing, antiques, and more, with great food, unique finds, and a fun, family-friendly atmosphere every weekend on the West Wind Solano Drive-In lot.
- The Big Fresno Flea MarketFresno · Swap meetA weekend swap meet in the Butler Parking Lot of the Big Fresno Fairgrounds, where the vendors of the Sunnyside Swap Meet went after that market's land was sold in 2021.
- Topanga Vintage MarketWoodland Hills · Flea marketA fourth-Sunday flea market in a Pierce College parking lot in Woodland Hills, California, where everything in the main aisles must be at least 20 years old.
- Tulare Sales YardTulare · Livestock auction marketA family-run cattle auction on South K Street in Tulare, California, dated to 1939, where the world livestock auctioneer contest held its first all-dairy sale in 2019.
Flea Markets in all eleven states; next door in Oregon and Arizona.