The California Department of Food and Agriculture lists two certified farmers markets in Manhattan Beach. The one downtown opens at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and packs up at 3 p.m. The one at Manhattan Village opens Thursday afternoon and runs into the evening. East of Sepulveda, that time slot matters more than anything on the tables.
Tonight, October 29, is the last market Thursday before Daylight Saving Time ends. NIST puts the change at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1. Starting next week, the last two hours or more of every market happen after dark. The market's own calendar ends just as the sun is setting at its earliest of the year.
Two certified markets, two different clocks
The Downtown Manhattan Beach Certified Farmers' Market is the established one. It runs every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Civic Center Parking Lot and Plaza, next to City Hall and the Police/Fire Facility. It lists more than 60 local food vendors, plus farmers, ranchers and sustainably sourced seafood. The Downtown Manhattan Beach Business + Professional Association brings it to town. Its founding vendors include Arnett Farms, J.R. Organics Farms, Dry Dock Fish Co., Deisy's Tasty Foods, Aliki Greek Taverna and Dave's Korean. Its market materials mark 20 years.
The Manhattan Village Farmers Market opened July 9, 2026, at the shopping center at 3200 N. Sepulveda Blvd. It sets up next to Anthropologie, and the center points out that parking is free. CDFA certifies it as a farmers market and places it at Sepulveda and Rosecrans.
A standard workday covers the downtown market's whole four-hour window. Both published schedules for the Manhattan Village market run past 5 p.m., though they disagree on the exact hours:
- Manhattan Village's event page: every Thursday, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- CDFA's directory, current as of October 1, 2026: Thursdays, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Vendors who have posted their own schedules, along with a Local Anchor profile of one of them, use the 2-to-7 window. Under either schedule, this is the only certified market in the city that's still open in the early evening.
Sunday takes an hour of light out of every market
Through October, the late part of the market still had some sun. On Thursday, October 29, Griffith Observatory's 2026 sunrise and sunset table puts the Los Angeles sunset at 6:03 p.m. By Sunday, November 1, the first day of standard time, it falls to 5:00 p.m. Then it keeps getting earlier.
This table uses Griffith's sunset times for the market Thursdays it lists and measures how much of each market falls after sunset under each published closing time.
| Market Thursday | Sunset, Los Angeles | After sunset, 7 p.m. close | After sunset, 8 p.m. close |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 29 | 6:03 p.m. | 57 minutes | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| November 12 | 4:51 p.m. | 2 hours 9 minutes | 3 hours 9 minutes |
| December 3 | 4:43 p.m. | 2 hours 17 minutes | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| December 10 | 4:44 p.m. | 2 hours 16 minutes | 3 hours 16 minutes |
On the 2-to-7 schedule, the last two hours or so of each November market come after sunset. On CDFA's 3-to-8 schedule, more than half of it does. Either way, the hours after 5 p.m. are the ones the downtown market doesn't cover, and those are the hours that go dark first.
Griffith lists December 3 as the earliest Thursday sunset of the season, at 4:43 p.m. A week later, December 10, the sunset is a minute later. The evening light starts coming back in the second week of December.
What is confirmed on the tables
The center describes the market as fresh, locally grown produce, seasonal flowers, plants, local honey and handcrafted goods. The South Bay Club described it the same way in its August roundup of new South Bay openings. A community-submitted Patch listing for the September 3 market claimed more than 40 local vendors. In July, MB Weekly ran a photo of the new market in its Lens feature.
Two vendors have been named publicly. Local Anchor's July profile of Water Cake, a shave ice business, lists the Manhattan Village market on its Thursday schedule. Gourmet Blends has a booth listed for the December 3 market, 2 to 7 p.m.
That December 3 booth is the latest specific market date any public listing confirms. It's also the Thursday with the earliest sunset.
A season that ends at the earliest sunsets
Manhattan Village's event page shows the market running from "Thursday, July 9th" to "Thursday, December 9th." December 9, 2026 is a Wednesday. The Thursdays on either side are December 3 and December 10, so the page doesn't settle which one is the last market.
CDFA's directory gives a different answer. It lists the Manhattan Village Farmers Market as year-round, which is how it lists the downtown Tuesday market too. So the state directory describes a permanent Thursday market, and the shopping center's calendar describes a season that ends in the first or second week of December.
If the center's calendar is right, the market closes its first year just as the evenings start getting lighter again. If CDFA's listing is right, the market works its way through January and February in the dark and comes out the other side with daylight returning to its later hours. A December 10 market, the first Thursday past the date printed on the center's page, would be the first sign that CDFA's listing is the one to trust.
Thanksgiving falls inside this stretch. November 26, 2026 is the fourth Thursday of the month, and neither the center's page nor the CDFA listing says whether the market will set up that day.
Planning from tonight through December 10
For anyone who has added Manhattan Village to their weekly routine, here's the calendar between now and the disputed end date:
- Tonight, October 29. Sunset is 6:03 p.m., the last market evening on Daylight Saving Time.
- November 5, 12 and 19. These are the first three standard-time markets. By November 12, sunset is 4:51 p.m.
- November 26. Thanksgiving. Check before you go.
- December 3. Earliest Thursday sunset of the year, 4:43 p.m., and the date of Gourmet Blends' listed booth.
- December 10. The first Thursday after the date printed on the center's page. Whether there's a market depends on which listing turns out to be right.
The CDFA directory lists the Manhattan Village market's phone number as (818) 300-3023, and the center's page gives a vendor contact at [email protected]. Use those to confirm the hours and the Thanksgiving and December dates. The downtown market's Tuesday schedule stays the same all year: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Civic Center.
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