Markets & Festivals in Auckland

Markets and festivals are the easiest family outing there is: no booking, no fixed start time, food on hand, and you can leave the moment it stops being fun. Auckland runs weekend community markets year-round and a steady run of cultural and food festivals on top.

The cultural festivals — Moon Festival, Diwali, Pasifika and the rest — are the ones worth the drive and the parking hassle. They are free, they are enormous, and they are the best value day out in the city calendar.