On 22-23 August 2026, flea markets and antique fairs across Île-de-France run from the 300 traders of Porte de Montreuil to the sixty booksellers of Parc Georges-Brassens, and out to Barbizon and Montlhéry.
Avenue du Professeur-André-Lemierre, from Saturday morning.
The Porte de Montreuil market opens there for three straight days, Saturday 22 to Monday 24 August. Three hundred traders at Montreuil, sixty booksellers under an old horse hall in the 15th, a car boot sale open only to residents of the 5th, a village brocante at Barbizon: the weekend of 22 August covers formats with almost nothing in common.
Three hundred traders at Porte de Montreuil
A Paris institution since the 19th century, the Porte de Montreuil flea market gathers around 300 traders on Avenue du Professeur-André-Lemierre, on the edge of the 20th arrondissement. Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Saint-Ouen it is not.
Montreuil stays cheaper and far less touristy than the puces to the north. Low-price vintage clothing dominates, alongside bric-a-brac, second-hand tools and the oddities traders bring out week after week. People come for the volume and for the prices, not for a shop window.
The pattern never shifts. From 3 January to 28 December 2026 the same three days come round, with no summer break and no September pause, which puts Montreuil among the permanent markets rather than the dated ones.
Booksellers in the 15th, monthly sales beyond Paris
Under the former horse hall of Parc Georges-Brassens, 104 rue Brancion, the Georges-Brassens antique and second-hand book market lines up some sixty professional booksellers on Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 6pm, with rare editions, engravings and old paper. Paris book collectors have long treated it as their address. Fourth Saturday of the month, 22/08/2026, the Rue Saint-Jacques car boot sale takes over Place Alphonse Laveran and the Val-de-Grâce quarter, where private sellers, families and neighbours put out their finds.
On Place des Abbesses in Montmartre, the professional brocante of the 18th runs Saturday and Sunday from 8am to 7pm at the foot of the Guimard métro entrance, with antique furniture, lighting, ceramics, paintings and jewellery. Open Tuesday to Sunday since 1779, the Place d'Aligre brocante holds the half-square next to the covered Beauvau market in the 12th, among old books, crockery and vintage clothes.
Outside Paris, hunting runs by the month, not by the week.
On Boulevard du Téméraire, Montlhéry flea market holds the second of its two monthly Saturdays, in a town known for its medieval tower and its old racing circuit. On Sunday, at the edge of the Fontainebleau forest, the monthly Barbizon brocante sets up at 16 Grande Rue, in the middle of the painters' village, one Sunday a month from June to November. Saturday morning at 45 rue de Paris in Bobigny, the Amelior resourcerie car boot sale brings together up to 150 sellers straight out of the métro, in a place that works as a recycling centre the rest of the week.
