Fresh fruit, vegetables, bread, and cheese direct from the producer. Use the opening hours in the popup to plan your market day.
This map shows two categories of fresh food sources from OpenStreetMap: farmers' markets (recurring public markets with multiple stalls — typically 1-2 times per week, often mornings) and farm shops (direct sale at or near the farm, often year-round). The popup shows opening hours (Wednesday mornings? all-day Saturdays?), the operator, contact info, and whether organic vendors are on-site. The organic filter hides non-certified stalls.
Locations come from OpenStreetMap, loaded live via the Overpass API. Farmers' markets use the tag amenity=marketplace, farm shops use shop=farm. Additional tags: opening_hours (e.g. "Sa 07:00-13:00"), organic=yes/only (organic), operator (town or association). OSM data is volunteer-maintained — is your local market missing? Add it on openstreetmap.org and it shows up here within minutes. Days and exact hours are typically well-maintained for popular markets, sparser in small towns — when in doubt, check the city website.
payment:cash=no when only card is accepted.Farmers' markets in Europe usually take place 1-2 times per week, often Wednesday and Saturday mornings (07:00-13:00). Big cities also have daily markets (Borough Market London, Viktualienmarkt Munich) and evening markets. In the US, the most common day is Saturday morning, mid-April through October. Exact times are in the popup under "Opening hours" — typical OSM format: We 07:00-13:00; Sa 07:00-14:00.
Tick the "Organic only" checkbox above the map — only markets tagged organic=yes or organic=only in OpenStreetMap will show. Examples: Union Square Greenmarket NYC, many European bio-markets. Many "regular" markets also have individual organic vendors — visible only when you click a market and check the popup for the bio indicator.
It depends. Seasonal staples (carrots, apples, lettuce) are often the same price or cheaper at the market — no supermarket margin in between. Specialties (heirloom tomatoes, artisan cheese, sourdough) cost more — but quality and variety are not comparable. Certified organic is generally pricier than conventional, everywhere.
Farmers' market: public square, multiple producers, specific days only (e.g. Wed + Sat). Variety in one stop (baker, cheese, fruit, vegetables, sausage). Farm shop: right at the farm, products from that farm (sometimes plus neighbours), often year-round and longer opening hours. Sometimes even self-service with an honesty box (typical for eggs, asparagus, pumpkins). City dwellers tend to use markets, country dwellers farm shops.
This map runs entirely in your browser. Your location is never sent to our servers — it's only used to center the map. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap.
All points come from OpenStreetMap and are fetched live via the Overpass API. Something missing or wrong? Anyone can fix it directly on OpenStreetMap — the map will reflect the change shortly after.
Farmers' markets are far more than shopping venues — they are often the last remaining direct link between consumers and producers in a region. We rely exclusively on OpenStreetMap, combining the classic amenity=marketplace tag with shop=farm for farm shops. When a market is held is read from opening_hours — a field that, given the market-typical rhythm ("Sa 07:00-13:00"), is central here. Organic share readable from organic=yes or organic=only. So you do not see "sponsored" markets, but a complete, neutral collection.
From a regional-food angle, weekly markets are a litmus test for local producer density: where many markets with short supply chains exist, regional value-add is intact. A comprehensive map also helps urban planning — if a neighbourhood has not a single market day within a 2 km radius, that is a data point for supply-gap research. From a consumer perspective it means above all: apple variety, additive-free bread, honey from a small apiary — products that grow ever rarer in the supermarket.
The map is language- and country-neutral. OSM mappers in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands have built dense market coverage over many years. Farm-shop sales (e.g. unpackaged milk straight from the producer) are increasingly being mapped too — here shop=farm is the central key. Use the organic filter deliberately: it narrows results to vendors explicitly marked as organic=yes/only. Farms without that tag are not automatically conventional — many small organic farms avoid the certification cost and therefore appear in OSM without the organic tag.
The map is practical for anyone who wants to escape the supermarket routine and find regional fresh produce — without clicking through twelve municipal websites first:
organic if certification matters.All data come from OpenStreetMap and are loaded live from the visible map via the Overpass API. The database is published under the Open Database License (ODbL) — you may use it and even publish derived works, as long as you credit the source and share changes under the same terms. If your weekly-market association wants to embed the map or export raw data as CSV, that is fine. Missing markets? Add them under amenity=marketplace with opening_hours following the OSM schema ("Sa 08:00-13:00"), operator, optional organic, payment:* — all free in the iD editor on openstreetmap.org/edit.
OSM is crowdsourced — and weekly markets in particular have exceptions a tag cannot capture: summer breaks, holiday shifts, weather cancellations. opening_hours reflects the regular schedule, not short-term changes. So for a single drive-out, do not rely on the map alone — check the market operator's website if in doubt. Coverage may also be patchy in rural regions outside Central Europe. If you spot a market that is not mapped, a 5-minute entry helps every user of this map and many other OSM apps.
opening_hours field, maintained by volunteers. Regular times ("every Saturday 8-13") are very reliable; one-off holiday shifts and summer breaks are not captured. When in doubt: check the operator's website.organic=yes/only means organic is on offer — formal EU organic certification is not guaranteed. Ask the vendor if in doubt. Conversely, many genuinely organic small farms are not certified (too costly) and therefore carry no OSM organic tag.