Visiting the Friday Market in Puerto de Mogan, Gran Canaria
A popular thing to do in Gran Canaria is to visit the Puerto de Mogan Friday market. Even if you don’t enjoy shopping, it’s a good excuse to check out Mogan with its colourful marina area! Here’s everything you need to know about visiting
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Puerto de Mogan Market
- 📅Every Friday
- 🕘9am until around 3pm
- 🗺️Puerto de Mogan, Gran Canaria
In This Guide
Getting To The Market
If you are not staying in Mogan, there are 3 main ways of getting to the market (although it’s not limited to these 3 ways, taxis and self drive would be an option to).
- The first is by an organised tour. There are plenty of different variations offered through the likes of Tui and Jet2, as well as GetYourGuide*. For these you may be arriving by coach.
- Second is to get to Mogan via the public buses. Global have several different lines that serve the coastal areas of Gran Canaria. Tickets for the bus can be bought from the driver either with cash or card. The bus station is right in the middle of the market area.
- Third way is via the ferry. Lineas Salmon is the main choice, with ports of call in Puerto Rico, Anfi and Arguineguin. You can buy single tickets or a return which saves you a bit of money (€13 Puerto Rico to Mogan return). They leave on the hour from Puerto Rico, with a couple of extra departures on market day. The line does get very long in the afternoons, but it does move quite quickly.
Visiting The Market
Location
Mogan market is split into 2 main areas, the pedestrian area, that runs from the far end of town, past the bus station and towards the beach. This is where the majority of the stalls are.
The second area runs around the perimeter of the ‘Little Venice’ marina area and around the edge of the sea wall. Personally, this was my favourite area, as I preferred the stalls that were here.
It does get EXTREMELY busy on market day, so if you don’t like being hot, mixed with lots of crowds, it may not be for you. It is especially busy along the pedestrian area where the pathway was quite narrow. To avoid crowds, visit either close to opening time or later in the afternoon.
(The photo above shows the backside of the market. The front of the stalls are on the right, but there is space to walk past the markets if you didn’t feel like browsing!)
Items For Sale
The majority of the market sells clothes, football shirts, bags, belts, hats and jewellery. A large portion replicas of designer brands. Personally I don’t buy designer brands, so I’m not really bothered about cheap replicas. I documented the market on TikTok and I did have lots of comments from people that were disappointed by this.
To give an idea of prices, there was a stall selling bikinis for €30-40, but when I went on a day trip to Puerto Rico, you could get similar bikinis for €25, so it’s good to shop around. With many of the stalls selling similar products, if you keep walking, you may find the same or similar items for a different price. You can also get beach towels for €5. One stall sold cheap souvenirs for €1 each.
I did buy a pair of ‘Ray Ban’ sunglasses…labelled as ‘Ray BoBos’ for €7, purely because I liked the colour and they are good for wearing in the pool and sea. But they could have blank and I would have still bought them.
Some stalls have prices listed, and others don’t, so you may have to haggle at some of them. Others were offering discounts for multi buys.
As mentioned above, I think the marina area had better stalls. There were a few more with local type products such as aloe vera and crafted items, which made a change from clothing. For example, one stall has really nice prints of places in the Canary Islands if you like artwork, another had personalised art on pieces of wood and rocks.
Many of the stalls do accept card payments as well as cash.
Food & Drink
For food and drink, obviously you have all the choices of the restaurant and bars in Mogan. On market day the beachfront restaurants and the ones that line the marina are very busy. But they do have great views and offer some respite from the sun.
There are a few market stalls with food and drink. The ‘beach end’ of the market has crepe stalls and a guy selling strawberries (he sells out by around lunchtime though). Alternatively, in the marina area there are several stalls selling juices and smoothies for €2.50 and chimney cakes for the same price. Another stall sold nuts and dried fruits.
My personal favourite, is the sugar cane juice stall! This one is a little more expensive at around €5, or for €7 you can get a mojito! They squeeze the sugar cane right in front of you, using a press machine. I was first recommended it at the Sunday Teror market when I did a day tour in 2021, so I was excited to see they were at the Mogan market too!
(€7 is around the going rate for a cocktail in the restaurants too).
Other Things To Do in Mogan
If you are not staying in Mogan, I would recommend using the market as an excuse to visit the town, but not necessarily visit purely for the market, treat the market like an added thing to do.
I recently stayed in Mogan for 9 days and have a whole guide of things to do in Puerto de Mogan here), but my very first visit was part of a day trip from Taurito on Market day (my hotel had a free shuttle bus).
The colour alleys of the marina are very popular to wander around, I also walked up the Mirador de Puerto de Mogan and spent some time at Mogan beach as I was limited for time on a day trip. If you had longer, you could combine it with a visit to the Canada de los Gatos archaeological area too (maybe do that before the shopping though, so you don’t have to then carry everything!).
When I stayed in Mogan (across 2 Fridays), I found that the pool was always the busiest on market day! I think most of the guests would try and avoid the town until all the day visitors had gone!
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Last Updated on August 25, 2025