Where is the Footscray Market car park?

Entry is on Irving Street, opposite Footscray Station. Do not use the Albert Street Plaza deck unless you are going to Coles or Kmart. Little Saigon parking is off Byron Street for the old site, not a live grocer.

What are Footscray Market hours?

Tuesday and Wednesday 7am-4pm, Thursday to Saturday 7am-5pm, closed Sunday and Monday. Confirm holiday hours on the official site. Ignore listings that still say Friday to 8pm.

How much is parking at Footscray Market?

The operator lists $1 for one hour, $2 for two, $4 for three, $6 for four, and $10 all day. Confirm the machine. Monthly passes are advertised on aggregator pages. Ask the deck, not a blog.

Is Little Saigon the same as Footscray Market?

No. The market is 18 Irving and closes Sunday and Monday. Little Saigon Market burned in 2016. Green Valley at 63-67 Nicholson is the remaining grocer. The plaza is a third complex on Albert Street.

What food is inside Footscray Market?

A working food court plus stalls. Xuan Anh for banh cuon, Huu Huu Thanh for pho and congee, Lutong Pinoy for Filipino plates, Nhu Ngoc for tiger-roll banh mi. Many of those stalls follow market days, not Hopkins bakery hours.

How do I get to Footscray Market by train?

Get off at Footscray Station, not West Footscray. Cross Irving Street. The hall is opposite the station. Trains to Southern Cross are about 12 to 15 minutes.

Sunday closed

How to do Footscray Market

The hall that feeds the west, except Sunday. Trust the operator, then the door.

Come for the herbs, the offal, the stall that sells out before lunch. Footscray Market sits at 18 Irving Street, opposite Footscray Station. It is open Tuesday and Wednesday 7am-4pm, Thursday to Saturday 7am-5pm, and closed Sunday and Monday. Park in the Irving Street deck, not Footscray Plaza on Albert Street. Little Saigon Market burned in 2016. Arrive before 9am if you wanted the pick of seafood and a food-court stool before the crush.

Updated 2026-09-20

When is Footscray Market open?

The hall does not run on Melbourne weekend-market muscle memory. Official hours from footscraymkt.com.au: Tuesday and Wednesday 7am-4pm, Thursday to Saturday 7am-5pm. Sunday closed. Monday closed. Public holiday hours change. Anzac Day 2026 is listed as 1pm-5pm. Easter Sunday and Easter Monday are closed. If a third-party listing still says Thursday to 6pm or Friday to 8pm, ignore it. Those hours used to circulate on Only Melbourne and market aggregators. Trust the operator site, then the glass.

Saturday is the crush: trolleys, aunties, a seafood aisle that does not wait for your photograph. Tuesday is quieter produce, the day households actually shop. Arrive before 9am if you want the pick of fish and the food court before it queues. After 3pm on Tuesday and Wednesday the hall is winding down. Do not plan a late shop on those days and then blame the suburb. The door was honest. The itinerary was not.

Operator hours as published on footscraymkt.com.au. Confirm holidays.
Day	Market hall	Notes
Monday	Closed	Deck still lists a 7am-9pm window
Tuesday	7am-4pm	Quieter produce run
Wednesday	7am-4pm	Same early close
Thursday	7am-5pm	Not 6pm
Friday	7am-5pm	Not 8pm
Saturday	7am-5pm	Busiest day
Sunday	Closed	Use Footscray Plaza Coles

Where do you park for Footscray Market?

The market car park entry is Irving Street, opposite the station, a boom and a ramp and a Saturday hunt for a bay. The operator lists about 800 undercover spaces and a 7am-9pm deck window Monday to Saturday. Parkopedia still shows a smaller bay count. Use the operator figure as the planning number, then take the first empty floor. Do not circle Irving until you hate the west. The first empty floor is the win.

Footscray Plaza parking is a different building. Enter that one from Albert Street if you want Coles, Kmart or a Sunday shop. Little Saigon has a third deck off Utility Lane, Byron Street, for the old site and Green Valley, not a live indoor market. Treat the market, the burned Little Saigon site and the plaza as three complexes with three car parks. Getting that wrong is the usual wasted loop, bags of ice walking a junction that did not need to be a story.

Market deck prices published by the operator. Confirm the machine.
Stay	Price
1 hour	$1
2 hours	$2
3 hours	$4
4 hours	$6
All day	$10

Is Footscray Market open on Sunday?

No. The market hall is locked Sunday and Monday. That sentence is the whole visitor trap, and it is still the sentence people refuse to believe because Queen Vic, South Melbourne and Prahran taught them a different weekend. Coles at Footscray Plaza on Albert Street is the grocery fallback those days, daily 7am to 10pm on the Coles store page. Little Saigon Market burned in 2016 and will not save you. Green Valley on Nicholson might. Confirm that glass. Do not stand on Irving staring at shutters and calling the suburb closed.

If you are planning a visitor itinerary, put the market on Saturday morning and keep Sunday for the river, the plaza, or a Hopkins bakery that actually opens. The things to do guide has the Sunday version. This page is the locked-hall warning. Forum threads that say Footscray is dead on Sunday are usually threads about people who wanted this hall.

What should you buy at Footscray Market?

Produce, meat and seafood are the reason to come. Asian herbs, offal, cassava, lotus and cheap fruit sit next to a food court that is a destination on its own. This is a working market, not a tourist hall. Move with the trolleys. If you dawdle in the seafood aisle you will get collected by someone who already knows the stall. Shop produce first, meat second, seafood last so the ice lasts.

The meat hall is goat, calves feet, liver, tripe and stock bones as much as it is chicken breast. The seafood hall is the fight for cockles, live fish and scallops still in shell. D&K Live Seafood at Shop 2, 28A Leeds is the street tank shop across from Elka, not a stall in this aisle. Tropical fruit and sawtooth coriander are the produce search. Specialty stalls cover Vietnamese, Filipino, Somali, Sri Lankan, Pacific Island, Maltese and Greek dry goods. You will not find that mix at Coles, which is the point of getting out of bed.

Xuan Anh Banh Cuon for steamed rice rolls and banh da cua, facing Hopkins from the hall. Market days only.
Huu Huu Thanh for pho and congee, often gone after lunch. Do not treat it as a dinner booking.
Lutong Pinoy for Filipino carinderia plates and halo-halo, a different lunch if the pho queue is a wall.
Nhu Ngoc Bakery at stall 223 for tiger-bread banh mi on market days only. Hopkins bakeries still trade when the stall does not.
Walk Hopkins after for Nhu Lan or T. Cavallaro and Sons if you still have a bag and a free hand.

How do you get to Footscray Market without a car?

Footscray Station is across Irving Street. Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown metro lines plus regional services dump you at the same interchange. The walk from the paid area to the hall is minutes, not a suburb crossing. Tram 82 and buses 402, 404, 406, 223 and 216 also hit the station block. This is the rare Melbourne market where the train is the correct first idea.

If you are coming from West Footscray Station, you are on the wrong platform for a market run. Ride one stop east or walk Barkly then Irving. Middle Footscray is closer than WeFo but still not the door. The parking and transport guide covers the night walk home after you shop. By day, Irving is a crossing, not a story.

Cash, bags and the food-court order of operations

Bring cash and a card. Some stalls prefer cash. Machines exist. Do not arrive card-only and shocked. Bring a trolley bag, or accept that you will buy less than you meant to. Eat first at the food court so you are not shopping hungry and overbuying fruit that will die in a hot car. Then herbs, then meat, then seafood last.

Xuan Anh faces Hopkins from the hall: steamed rice rolls, Hai Phong noodles, a critic pick that still closes with the market. Huu Huu Thanh is the pho and congee stall that can sell out around lunch. Lutong Pinoy is the Filipino plate if you wanted carinderia instead of broth. Nhu Ngoc at stall 223 is tiger bread, market days only. None of these are Hopkins street bakeries. Name the stall. Name the day.

What do people get wrong about Footscray Market?

They treat the market, Little Saigon and the plaza as one complex. They are three, and Little Saigon Market is not live. They also assume Sunday trade because other Melbourne markets run the weekend. This one does not. They park on Albert Street and walk the long way with bags. They copy aggregator hours that still list Friday nights. They arrive at 4:15pm on a Wednesday and blame the suburb.

Tuesday and Wednesday close at 4pm. Holiday hours move. Anzac Day is the one the operator currently flags as a late open. Check footscraymkt.com.au the morning you go, then trust the door. A locked hall is not a scandal. It is a calendar.

What is the difference between the market, Little Saigon and the plaza?

Footscray Market is 18 Irving, indoor produce and a food court, closed Sunday and Monday. Little Saigon Market at 80 Hopkins / 63-67 Nicholson burned on 13 December 2016. The site is still empty. Green Valley at 9/63-67 Nicholson is the remaining grocer. Footscray Plaza is Coles, Kmart and the Albert Street Secure Parking deck. Sunday shoppers who wanted the market usually end up at the plaza without meaning to, and then write a review of coriander that never had a chance.

You can do all three in one trip if you park once and walk. You cannot do that if you parked in the wrong deck and the boom gate already has your ticket. Name the building before you turn in. The where-to-shop guide is what goes in the bag. This page is the hall itself.

How should you plan a first visit?

Go Saturday before 9am, or Tuesday if you wanted air in the aisles. Bring cash and a card. Bring a trolley bag. Eat first. Then herbs, then meat, then seafood. Walk Hopkins after if you still want a bakery roll. If you only have a weekday lunch, Tuesday to Friday still works, with the 4pm close in your head on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Skip the Instagram circuit that starts at noon on Saturday and then complains about queues. This hall rewards people who treat it as a weekly shop, not a destination brunch. If you only came from the city for a photograph, you will still eat well. You will eat better if you came to cook.

Questions people ask next

Is Footscray Market open on Sunday?: No. The market is closed Sunday and Monday. Use Coles at Footscray Plaza if you need groceries on those days. Little Saigon Market burned in 2016.
Where is the Footscray Market car park?: Entry is on Irving Street, opposite Footscray Station. Do not use the Albert Street Plaza deck unless you are going to Coles or Kmart. Little Saigon parking is off Byron Street for the old site, not a live grocer.
What are Footscray Market hours?: Tuesday and Wednesday 7am-4pm, Thursday to Saturday 7am-5pm, closed Sunday and Monday. Confirm holiday hours on the official site. Ignore listings that still say Friday to 8pm.
How much is parking at Footscray Market?: The operator lists $1 for one hour, $2 for two, $4 for three, $6 for four, and $10 all day. Confirm the machine. Monthly passes are advertised on aggregator pages. Ask the deck, not a blog.
Is Little Saigon the same as Footscray Market?: No. The market is 18 Irving and closes Sunday and Monday. Little Saigon Market burned in 2016. Green Valley at 63-67 Nicholson is the remaining grocer. The plaza is a third complex on Albert Street.
What food is inside Footscray Market?: A working food court plus stalls. Xuan Anh for banh cuon, Huu Huu Thanh for pho and congee, Lutong Pinoy for Filipino plates, Nhu Ngoc for tiger-roll banh mi. Many of those stalls follow market days, not Hopkins bakery hours.
How do I get to Footscray Market by train?: Get off at Footscray Station, not West Footscray. Cross Irving Street. The hall is opposite the station. Trains to Southern Cross are about 12 to 15 minutes.
Do I need cash at Footscray Market?: Bring both cash and a card. Some stalls prefer cash. Machines exist. Do not arrive card-only. Eat first so you do not overbuy fruit.