The Belmont Market

The Belmont Market has traded every Sunday at Geelong's Barwon Valley Activity Centre since the 1970s, growing into one of the region's longest-running community markets. Run by the City of Greater Geelong, it sits on Barwon Heads Road in Belmont, about 2.7 kilometres from the Geelong CBD, and is often described locally as Geelong's biggest garage sale.

More than 200 stalls in one place

The market fills over 200 individual sites, each roughly 2.4 metres wide by 5 metres long, spread across indoor and outdoor areas of the activity centre. The stall mix leans towards secondhand and vintage goods, pre-loved and vintage clothing, jewellery and accessories, books, home wares, toys, crafts and industrial bric-a-brac, alongside fresh produce, plants and flowers and hot food stalls. Entry for shoppers is free, and the scale of the market means a proper look through takes more than a quick pass.

Market at a glance

1970sTrading since

200+Stall sites

8am-1pmSunday hours

FreeEntry

Good to know before you go

Trading runs from 8am to 1pm every Sunday, with no market on public holidays, Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve. Stallholders drive onto their own numbered site to set up and pack down, which is why vehicle movement across the grounds is strictly off-limits during trading hours, worth knowing if you're navigating the site on foot. Council-run stallholder bookings are handled online, and casual stallholders who turn up consistently over time are the ones typically offered a permanent site, so the mix of traders tends to stay familiar week to week. The market also restricts the usual list of items like tobacco, alcohol and weapons that responsible operators keep off the table.

With decades of continuous Sunday trading behind it, The Belmont Market has become as much a social fixture as a shopping trip for Geelong locals, a place to browse secondhand finds, pick up fresh produce and catch up with the community in one Sunday morning outing.