Hobart Twilight Market Long Beach Sandy Bay
The beachside half of Hobart's original Friday twilight market, which flips to a Sunday daytime pop-up through the colder months.
About this market
Long Beach is the beachside half of Hobart Twilight Market, the city's original Friday twilight market, and it is the half that changes shape with the season. Through the warmer months it trades on selected Friday evenings from 4:30pm to 9pm. Through the colder months it does something most markets do not: it inverts, running a Sunday pop-up series from 11am to 3pm, swapping a twilight format for a daytime one rather than closing for winter.
A beach at Lower Sandy Bay, ten minutes from town
The site is 17 Beach Road at Lower Sandy Bay, about a ten minute drive from Hobart's CBD and reachable by Metro bus, which puts a genuine beach within easy range of the city on a market evening. The format is the operator's own summary: eats, drinks, design and music. Street food comes from local traders and a sizeable food truck line-up, drinks run to Tasmanian liquors, cocktails, cordials and wines, and design stalls carry jewellery, gifts, books and homewares. Growers sell fruit, vegetables and plants direct, and local designers and preloved sellers cover the fashion end.
Market at a glance
Facilities are unusually well spelled out for a market of this size: toilets, accessible parking, a dedicated information booth and a fee-free cash-out facility, plus a playground that this site has and the operator's city-centre site does not. Dogs and families are both explicitly welcome, and reviewers single out the setting, the easygoing crowd and an outdoor movie screening as the things that bring them back.
Rather than shutting for winter, this site changes its whole shape. The Friday twilight format runs across the warmer months, then a Sunday pop-up series takes over from about June to September, trading in the middle of the day instead of after dark.
Good to know before you go
Check which season you are in, then check the date, because both the day of the week and the time change between them and neither format runs every week. The operator publishes a single calendar covering this site and its city-centre one, the Brooke Street Pier market, and the two have separate date lists rather than sharing an evening, so confirm which one is trading before you set out. Driving is straightforward and there is accessible parking, but the Metro bus works too. Bring something warm even on a summer Friday: the market sits on an exposed beach and the temperature drops fast once the sun goes. The playground makes this the better of the two sites if you are bringing children.
Frequently Asked Questions
- When does the Long Beach market run?
- On selected Fridays from 4:30pm to 9pm, roughly October to March, plus a Sunday pop-up series from 11am to 3pm through the colder months, roughly June to September. Dates are published on the operator's calendar and can change.
- Is Sandy Bay the only location?
- No. The same operator runs a second waterfront site at Brooke Street Pier in the city centre. The two publish separate date lists rather than trading on the same evening, so check both calendars.
- What is on offer?
- Tasmanian street food and a food truck line-up, small-batch local drinks, design and craft stalls, local produce, fashion, and live music from local artists.