On Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August 2026, ten flea markets and antique fairs open across Hauts-de-France: Ressons-le-Long from 6.30am, the annual rederie at Rumigny, the Bon Air braderie in Wimereux until 7pm.
Half past six in the morning.
That is when the municipal sports ground at Ressons-le-Long, in the Aisne, opens its gates on Saturday. Ten flea markets and antique fairs share 22-23 August 2026 across Hauts-de-France, from the Cambrésis to the Bay of Somme: a village pitch, a covered market hall, a whole seaside neighbourhood.
Sixty stallholders on the Ressons-le-Long ground
6.30am to 6pm, Saturday only: the Broc'tout de Ressons-le-Long takes over the municipal sports ground on rue du Routy for its yearly outing. Around sixty stallholders set out their tables, from first light to late afternoon.
Every one of them is a private seller.
The village animation and events committee runs the day each summer, and pitches go for 2 euros a metre, booked in advance. Traders and food vendors stay off the field. What ends up on the grass comes out of local attics rather than a van that does the circuit.
Two euros a metre: five metres of kerb come to ten euros, and the table of someone clearing an attic once a year still adds up at that price.
Eleven and a half hours of opening, one day a year: on 22/08/2026 the ground stands in for a fairground across the Aisne valley.
Saturday belongs to it. Only three other sales open on the same day in the region, and everything else moves to Sunday.
Picardy rederies and Opal Coast braderies
That same Saturday, the Cambrésis opens a street and a hall: at Cattenières, a village of 800 people south of Cambrai, the brocante-vide-greniers fills rue Roger Salengro; at Solesmes, La Boîte du Pays Solesmois sets up its clothes sale under the covered market on place du Maréchal Foch, fewer than fifty sellers, clothing, shoes and accessories only. On the banks of the Lys, the Saint-Venant athletics club holds its sale by the water.
Sunday, Wimereux is up at 6am: the Bon Air braderie turns a residential district of the resort into an open-air bargain market until 7pm, thirteen straight hours of stalls along one street.
Further inland, Étoile Sportive d'Haillicourt puts out clothes, crockery, bric-a-brac and toys at low prices on rue Roger Salengro for its annual jumble sale, in a mining town next to Bruay-la-Buissière. The Ognolles sale, out in the Noyon countryside, charges the public 2 euros at the gate.
On the town hall square at Rumigny, around fifty private sellers close the Santerre summer with the events committee's annual rederie. Noyelles-sur-Mer lays out its stalls beside the Bay of Somme, among salt meadows and old fishing harbours, a step from the bay's heritage railway. And at Esclainvillers, early browsing comes before the rides: the car boot sale is attached to the village funfair.
