Noumea City Market — Local services in Noumea

Noumea City Morning Market

Visited on Friday, 6/12/2024

The Noumea City Morning Market, also known as the Port Moselle Market, is a few minutes’ walk from the cruise terminal. This is the first stop of the Hop-on Hop-Off bus.

The market, with its distinctive blue roofs, is very clean, and floor dry throughout.

It is composed of five small halls:

• Fresh Produce Hall • Seafood Hall • Meat and Flowers Hall • Pastries and Baked Goods Hall • Handicrafts and Clothing Hall

The fresh produce hall is filled with a wide variety of colorful tropical fruits such as bananas, pineapples, papayas, and mangoes, along with local produce especially yams, taro, etc.

Non-tropical fruits such as apples, oranges, kiwi fruit, and pears are imported from Australia or New Zealand.

The seafood hall, located in a separate building offers fresh catch by local fishermen, including fish, seafood, and crustaceans like lobster. There are imported varieties such salmon, tuna, prawns and shrimps on sale.

The meat hall offers a variety of locally sourced meats, but lamb, duck and Venison are imported.

Part of the flower / pastries hall is filled with local tropical flowers such as hibiscus, frangipani, and orchids. Bouquets and arrangements are made with a mix of local and imported flowers, including roses and tulips from cooler climates.

There are coffee, pastries and baked products on sale, including my favourite croissants, and Danishes.

This handicrats and clothing hall stocks many local unique products, including jewelry, pottery, and decorative pieces made by local artisans.

It is important to note that the market is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 5 AM to 11 AM.

I feel that it is a missed opportunity for food operators not to provide customers with the service to cook and consume their freshly purchased seafood on...

There isn’t much here, and I would skip it if in a rush while visiting Noumea. If you happen to be around and have spare time, it is not a bad place to swing in to check out.

The market has several sections and sells vegies, fruits, souvenir items, seafood and ready-to-eat hot foods. However the produce other than seafood did not particularly look fresh nor of exceptional quality. I have not eaten their stuff so I may be judging too quickly from just the looks.

I was impressed that every little stall seemed to accept credit card payments. It would be quite convenient in that respect should you find something you would actually buy.

It took about 20 minutes to look around the whole place as it isn’t very big. There were quite a few people but not to the point where it was difficult to walk around or feel threatened by pickpockets like another reviewer here. It felt perfectly safe for us.

Another striking thing was how clean the whole place felt. Many other seafood markets I have been have floors flooded with water and smell at least a little bad, but this market felt clean - like I would comfortably wear a white pair of...

It is a relatively small market that appears to be frequented mostly by locals who do their fresh fruit, vegetable, bread and fish/meat shopping. We love wandering around such markets and it appeared other tourists were doing the same.

It’s a great spot to pick up a few fresh food supplies if you are staying somewhere you can prepare your own meals; or to buy fresh fruit to snack on. We bought some local pineapple and bananas just for that purpose and a bag of the best limes for our Gin & Tonics back at our resort in the evenings!

The market includes a number of stalls selling clothing, jewellery, arts & crafts and local souvenirs. This just added something else to see on top of the fresh food.

The market is located just over from the main Moselle bus terminal so we were lucky to be able to get there on the #3 local bus service from our resort on Anse Vata Beach.

This is not a must-do place to visit. It will appeal to those who like small local markets in general or if you need to pick up some fresh food supplies...