Looking for farmers markets in Culver City? This Westside city has a popular downtown farmers market showcasing Southern California’s year-round bounty. This local guide covers Culver City’s farmers markets, what to buy, when to go by season, and how to find the freshest, most current details from people who shop them every week.

Culver City’s farmers markets

The Culver City Farmers Market fills Main Street downtown on Tuesday afternoons, bringing Southern California farms, food vendors, and makers to the heart of the walkable downtown. It’s a lively, community-friendly market with the Westside’s year-round produce.

What to buy at Culver City farmers markets

Expect Southern California’s year-round produce — citrus and avocados, strawberries and stone fruit, fresh greens and vegetables — plus flowers, local honey, artisan goods, and prepared foods and treats.

Seasons & when to go

Thanks to the mild climate, the market runs year-round with something fresh every season — winter citrus and avocados, spring strawberries, and summer stone fruit and tomatoes. It’s an all-season Westside staple. To pair a market run with a walk, see our guide to the best parks in Culver City.

What to know about Culver City farmers markets

The Tuesday Main Street market is very walkable — pair it with a downtown stroll. Go for the fresh California produce; bring a bag. Parking is available, or take the Expo Line.

What Culver City locals recommend

Market days, seasonal hours, and the best vendors change constantly — and locals know which stalls are worth the trip. On Neighborhood Nurturers’ Culver City community, real Culver City neighbors share their favorite markets and vendors, and what’s in season right now. For more, see our guide to the best things to do in Culver City. Join your Culver City neighbors free and get real local market recommendations →

Getting the most out of Culver City

Each market has its own rhythm, vendors, and best-early hours worth learning. If you are planning a morning at the market in Culver City, it helps to build it around the parts of town you already love. Spots like the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook and the Culver City Stairs anchor the areas locals gravitate to, and the best plans tend to pair one of those with a stop from this guide. Neighbors also point to the Ballona Creek Trail when they want something a little quieter or off the usual path. Knowing those anchors makes it far easier to line up a morning at the market that actually fits the day you have in mind, whether you have a couple of free hours or a whole afternoon in Culver City.

More Culver City guides worth bookmarking

Part of what makes Culver City rewarding is how much it packs into a small footprint. If you found this useful, these companion guides cover the same neighborhoods from different angles: Best restaurants in Culver City, Things to do in Culver City, Parks in Culver City. Between them you can plan an entire day — or an entire weekend — without ever leaving town.

Ask a Culver City neighbor first

Guides get you started, but the freshest tips always come from people who live here. Hours change, new spots open, and locals know which places are worth it right now. The Culver City community on Neighborhood Nurturers is where residents swap honest, current recommendations — ask Culver City neighbors what they would do, or join your town community free and get answers from real people who actually know Culver City.

Frequently asked questions

Where is the Culver City farmers market?

The Culver City Farmers Market fills Main Street downtown on Tuesday afternoons, running year-round in the mild climate.

What is sold at the Culver City farmers market?

Southern California’s year-round produce — citrus, avocados, strawberries, stone fruit, and greens — plus flowers, honey, and prepared foods.

What do locals recommend at Culver City markets?

Culver City neighbors share their favorite vendors and seasonal picks in our community.

The Culver City Farmers Market: Tuesdays, 2–7pm

The essential detail, and the one that catches almost every visitor out: the Culver City Farmers Market runs on a Tuesday afternoon, from 2pm to 7pm — not a weekend morning. It takes over Main Street in the heart of downtown, a few steps from The Culver Steps and the Culver Hotel, and it offers a wide range of organic, sustainable and specialty producers rather than a handful of stalls.

That weekday-afternoon slot is the whole character of the market. Because it is not a Saturday-morning tourist event, the crowd is overwhelmingly local: people finishing work, parents with children before dinner, residents doing an actual weekly shop. It is comfortably the best single hour in the week to see downtown Culver City behaving like a neighbourhood rather than a destination, and it is why long-standing residents treat Tuesday evening as a fixed point.

How to shop it well

A few things make a real difference. Arrive closer to 2pm if you want the best of the produce and the shortest queues, or closer to 6pm if you prefer the social version and do not mind that some stalls have thinned out — sellers sometimes discount at the end rather than pack up unsold produce. Bring your own bags and small notes; some vendors take cards but not all, and change runs short late in the day.

Because the market runs into the evening, it works differently from a morning market: plenty of people treat it as dinner. Prepared-food stalls and the surrounding downtown restaurants mean you can shop, eat and stay out, which is not really possible at a Saturday 8am market. If you are combining it with a meal, the plaza is right there and our downtown Culver City guide covers the options.

Getting there, and parking

This is the market’s other advantage: it is genuinely reachable without a car. The Metro E Line stops at Culver City Station at the edge of downtown — roughly 26 minutes from 7th Street/Metro Center in downtown Los Angeles, trains about every 15 minutes, around $2 — and the market is a short walk from there. Culver CityBus also runs through downtown.

If you drive, use the public parking structures around Culver Boulevard and Cardiff Avenue rather than looking for street parking on Main Street, which is closed or congested during market hours. Park once and walk; the downtown core is small enough that any structure puts you a few minutes from the stalls.

Farmers market or supermarket? A useful distinction

A lot of people searching for a “farmers market” in Culver City are actually looking for Sprouts Farmers Market, which is a grocery store rather than a street market and is open every day. Both are useful and they are not the same thing: Sprouts is where you do a full weekly shop under a roof at any hour, while the Tuesday market on Main Street is seasonal, outdoor, direct-from-grower and only exists for five hours a week. If you want the producers themselves — and the reason to go is that you can ask the person who grew it — you want Tuesday.

Culver City also sits within easy reach of the wider Los Angeles market network, so if a Tuesday afternoon genuinely does not work, other neighbourhood markets run on other days across the Westside. But the local one is the local one, and it is the only market where you will run into your neighbours.

What else is on downtown

The market is one of three recurring things that fill the same few blocks. The Summer Sunset Concert Series runs free performances on Thursday evenings at 7pm in Town Plaza at The Culver Steps, from 16 July to 20 August 2026. And Fiesta La Ballona — the city’s 75th annual festival — takes over Veterans Memorial Park at 4117 Overland Avenue from 28 to 30 August 2026, with free entry and two entertainment stages. Our Culver City events guide has the full calendar.

Going with children

The Tuesday timing is unusually good for families. It lands after school and before dinner, the market is outdoors and open enough that a pushchair is no obstacle, and the Culver Steps plaza next door gives children somewhere to run when they have had enough of shopping. Salt & Straw is a few steps away for the obvious bribe, and Village Well, the bookstore-café that runs three weekly storytimes, is nearby if you need an indoor option. More in our things to do with kids guide and the free things to do guide — wandering the market itself costs nothing.

Eating your way round the stalls

Treat the Tuesday market as dinner rather than a shop and it becomes a different, better outing. Buy something to eat immediately, walk it over to the plaza steps and sit down — that is the local move, and it is why the market feels sociable rather than transactional. Then buy the week’s produce on the way back to the car, so nothing delicate gets carried around for an hour in the sun.

Seasonality is worth paying attention to in Southern California, because the growing calendar here is unusually generous and the stalls change substantially through the year. Citrus is at its best in the winter months, stone fruit through the summer, and the market carries specialty and sustainable growers you will not find in a supermarket at any price. If you are unsure what is good on a given week, ask — the people behind the tables grew it, and that access is the entire reason to shop a farmers market instead of a shop.