Rocks Market opening hours in Sydney

Sydney’s Rocks Market is open between 10am and 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays. During the Rocks Market opening hours, arts, crafts and food stalls line George Street, Playfair Street and Jack Mundey Place.

The Rocks Market

The historic Rocks area, to the west of Circular Quay, is the most touristy part of Sydney. You can learn more about it on a guided Rocks walking tour.

Given the amount of visitor footfall, the Rocks is a logical place to hold an outdoor market.

That logic has been followed through, and the Rocks Market has become a hugely popular attraction. The Rocks Market sprawls across George Street, Playfair Street and Jack Mundey Place. Live musicians and street performers intersperse the stalls.

Obviously, being a market firmly aimed at tourists, there is some tat on sale. But as a general rule, the quality of goods on offer is much higher than in the Rocks’ pretty dreadful souvenir shops.

Rocks Market stalls

A full list of stalls is on the Rocks website. Some Rocks Market stalls sell food, but the focus is on arts and crafts, with much of what’s on sale being locally hand-made. The more interesting Rocks Market stall options include Adri’s Gingerbread, which makes colourful gingerbread biscuits, and Australian Woodcraft, which makes homewares such as chopping boards from native Australian wood.

Elsewhere, you’ll find glazed mugs featuring cartoon koalas, ultra-colourful wine bottle holders and jewellery made from semi-precious stones. Bee Bowen Clothing offers tie-dyed scarves. Blooming Garden does one-off floral design phone cases. Bush Art Australia preserves leaves from native trees in 22 carat gold jewellery.

This is, basically, the sort of place where you get a good Mother’s Day or Father’s Day present.

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Rocks Market opening hours

Go on a Saturday or Sunday between 10am and 5pm if you want to find the Rocks Market open – it’s a weekend-only thing. If you’ve got the choice, you’re better off going in the morning as the streets of the Rocks can get pretty crowded by the afternoon.

The savvy, time-short traveller might want to combine a trip to the Rocks Market with climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge or visiting the nearby Pylon Lookout and Rocks Discovery Museum. Other markets in Sydney include the Glebe Markets every Saturday.

Other ways to see the Rocks include a guided daytime walking tour, a historian-led convict past tour, a historical pubs tour and a guided Aboriginal experience. There are also nightly Rocks ghost tours.