Boca Raton Has Three Sunday Markets Now. Only One Is Open This Week.

Say "the Green Market" to three different neighbors in Boca Raton and you might get three different Sundays in return. One will picture a fountain and a clock tower on Mizner Boulevard. Another will describe a folding-table scene in the 5th Ave Shops parking lot in East Boca. A third will send you to a converted office park off Yamato Road where the smell of raw milk and fresh sourdough hits you before you've parked the car. All three are technically correct. All three are also, as of this week, wrong two-thirds of the time, because two of Boca's three Sunday markets are on their summer break, and neither reopens until late September at the earliest.

That gap is the useful part of this story. Boca Raton's current three-market Sunday lineup is just over a year old. It grew fast, the names overlap, and the local press itself hasn't fully sorted out which market lives where. If you want to actually find one this weekend instead of driving to a locked gate, here's what's real right now and what's still weeks away.

The One That Runs Every Week, No Matter the Season

The Boca Farmers Market is the anchor, and it's the only one of the three currently open. It runs every Sunday, all year, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus, 4950 Communication Avenue, Lot H.

Its origin is a small-business story rather than a city-planning one. Founders Jess and Adam Del Vecchio started by driving hours each way to buy raw milk, kefir, and pasture-raised eggs for their own family, a habit that turned into a delivery business called Raw Milk Boca. When demand outgrew home delivery, they started pickup events, and those pickup events became a market. It launched in April 2025 with roughly 20 to 25 vendors. As of July 2026, it had grown to more than 80 local farms, food vendors, and artisan businesses every Sunday, according to the Boca Raton Tribune.

The market moved once already, relocating to the BRiC campus for more shade and parking after outgrowing its original lot. It now opens with free community yoga at 9:30 a.m., followed by vendor stalls for produce, raw dairy, grass-fed meats, sourdough, and handmade goods. Jess Del Vecchio described the weekly setup and teardown to the Tribune as building a small city every Sunday and dismantling it by afternoon. That scale, and the fact that it never pauses for the off-season, is what separates it from the other two.

The Downtown Market That Just Went Quiet for the Summer

The Downtown Boca Green Market at Royal Palm Place is the one most visitors picture when they think of a Boca farmers market, and it's currently closed. Last season it ran Sundays from October 5, 2025, through May 3, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., set up on Mizner Boulevard by the fountain near the Clock Tower, steps from The Standard and across the street from Alina.

It's a seasonal market by design, timed to South Florida's cooler months and its downtown foot traffic. The setting does a lot of the work: produce, seafood, flowers, and gourmet goods against Royal Palm Place's storefronts rather than an office park backdrop. If the pattern holds, it should return this fall on a similar October-to-May calendar, but as of late August that return date hadn't been published yet. Worth checking Royal Palm Place's own event listings before you plan a Sunday around it.

The Market With the Almost-Identical Name, in a Different Part of Town

This is where it gets genuinely confusing. Boca Green Market is a separate market from the Downtown Boca Green Market at Royal Palm Place, despite the nearly identical name. It started in East Boca, founded by a vendor known as Fairy Chrissy of Enchanted Knot Fairy Hair, who noticed there wasn't a weekly market option for that side of town. What began with her stall and about 14 other vendors grew into a rotating market of up to 53 vendors, according to a February 2026 Boca Raton Tribune report, with regular vendors including agricultural co-ops from Loxahatchee.

Here's the part that even local coverage hasn't nailed down. The market's own website lists its home as the 5th Ave Shops at 1954 NE Fifth Ave, running Sundays from September 27 through the first weekend in May. But that same February 2026 Tribune article describes the market as having grown into an event now held at Royal Palm Place, the same location as the separately branded Downtown Boca Green Market. Two different write-ups, two different addresses, same market name. If you're planning to visit once it reopens this fall, check the market's current listing that week rather than relying on last year's address.

Three Markets, Side by Side

So Which One Do You Actually Go To

For the next few weeks, that question answers itself. Only the Boca Farmers Market at BRiC is running, so if you want a Sunday market fix in early September, that's the one on the calendar. It's also the pick if you want the widest vendor variety and don't mind an office-park setting rather than a postcard one.

Once the two seasonal markets wake back up this fall, one in late September and the other likely in early October based on last year's calendar, the choice comes down to what you're after. Royal Palm Place gives you a polished downtown stroll, good for pairing a market run with breakfast or a walk past the Clock Tower. Boca Green Market, wherever it lands this season, tends to have a smaller, more neighborhood feel, built by a single vendor who wanted East Boca to have its own weekly gathering rather than commuting to Royal Palm Place or BRiC for one.

None of these markets are going anywhere. What's worth remembering is that this three-market Sunday lineup is the product of three separate groups of people, each independently deciding the city needed a weekly gathering spot, and each building one without much coordination on naming. That's a sign of a neighborhood with room to keep growing its own small businesses, not a coincidence.

If you're new to Boca Raton, or you've lived here long enough to remember when Sunday mornings meant one market instead of three, that kind of local texture tends to matter more than it seems. It's the difference between knowing a place and just living near it.

Karen Diaz spends her weekends in these same neighborhoods, and her clients often ask what a street, a market, or a Sunday actually feels like before they commit to a home nearby. If you're weighing a move to Boca Raton or want a guide who already knows which market is open this week, Karen Diaz Meaike is glad to help you get oriented, market included.