Four Saturday markets in September, two of them new for London Design Festival and London Fashion Week, then dates through to 28 November. All on Phillimore Walk.

Every market in this piece happens on the same short street. Phillimore Walk, running beside Kensington Central Library off Kensington High Street, takes a market every Saturday and every Sunday, and Opportunity Kensington has built September into a four-week run with two brand-new events in it.

The framing is deliberate. The original Kensington Market opened on the high street in 1967 and closed in 2000, and the business district is explicitly invoking it: the September programme is billed as “inspired by the iconic Kensington Market” (Opportunity Kensington, 17 August 2026).

Every confirmed Saturday date

Date Market Ends
Saturday 5 September Kensington Botanical Market 4.30pm
Saturday 12 September All Ears Market, new for London Design Festival 6pm
Saturday 19 September Judy’s Vintage Market, new for London Fashion Week 4.30pm
Saturday 26 September The Big Kensington Flea Market 4.30pm
Saturday 3 October Kensington Botanical Market 4.30pm
Saturday 31 October The Big Kensington Flea Market, Halloween edition 4.30pm
Saturday 7 November Kensington Botanical Market 4.30pm
Saturday 28 November The Big Kensington Flea Market 4.30pm

All of them open at 10am. The end times come from the September announcement, which says the markets “open from 10am on Phillimore Walk, Kensington, with All Ears running until 6pm and the others until 4.30pm”. The dates beyond September are from the district’s own markets calendar.

There is also a farmers market every Sunday, 10am to 2pm, on the same street, running to 20 December.

The two new ones

All Ears, on 12 September, is the one worth planning around. It is built for the London Design Festival and is a music and design market rather than a general one: artist and DJ talks, records, merch and zines, with pan-Asian street food. It also comes with a free day of talks and music films in the Kensington Central Library Lecture Theatre, which is the building the market runs alongside. It is the only market of the eight that runs past 4.30pm.

Judy’s Vintage Market, on 19 September, lands during London Fashion Week and is promised as more than 50 traders showing emerging designers and makers, sustainable and upcycled fashion, jewellery, accessories, textiles and vintage. The Big Flea, the district’s regular vintage market, is put at over 60 stalls.

Two things that do not line up

The road reopens before the market ends. The council’s traffic order closes Phillimore Walk between Hornton Street and Campden Hill from 7.30am until 3.00pm every Saturday, and that is the only closure listed for these markets (RBKC works and events bulletin, 27 August 2026). The organiser advertises the markets to 4.30pm, and All Ears to 6pm. On the council’s own paperwork the street is open to traffic for the last ninety minutes of a normal market, and the last three hours of All Ears. Neither side acknowledges the difference.

The postcode changes for the Sunday market. The Saturday markets are listed at Phillimore Walk, W8 7RG; the Sunday farmers market on the same street is listed at W8 7RX. Both appear on the same page.

When this stops

The closure order runs to 28 November 2026, and the last Saturday market advertised is the Big Flea on 28 November. The two match exactly, so nothing on this calendar carries into December except the Sunday farmers market. If a Christmas market is planned for Phillimore Walk, it has not been lodged with the council and it is not on the district’s calendar.

Getting there

Phillimore Walk is a few minutes’ walk from High Street Kensington station, off Kensington High Street and alongside Kensington Central Library. It is pedestrianised on market days, so there is nothing to park on. Our page on parking in Kensington and Chelsea sets out the borough’s charges, and roadworks and travel tracks what else is shut nearby.