Island Guides · checked 2026-08-13

Craft fairs and maker markets on Oʻahu

Name: Haleʻiwa Arts Festival
Location: Haleʻiwa Beach Park

Two guides in one. Where to shop, sorted by day of the week and marked for whether it is actually handmade — and, further down, what it takes to get a booth.

I want to shop →I want a booth →

“Craft fair” means four different things here

This is the distinction every other guide flattens, and it is the one that decides whether your Saturday is worth it. A swap meet with four hundred stalls of imported goods and a fair with a written made-it-yourself rule both get filed as “craft fair”. So every market below carries a tag, based on what the organiser’s own rules say rather than on what they call themselves.

Handmade rule published

A published rule that you made it yourself.

Curated, no published rule

Someone screens the vendors, but no rule is published.

Crafters and resellers

Crafters share the floor with resellers and direct sales.

No handmade distinction

No distinction between made and bought-in at all.

Food market, some craft

A food market that happens to have a few craft stalls.

If you want to shop

Sorted by day, because the useful question is what is on today rather than what exists in principle.

Monday

Waikīkī Makers Market

Wednesday

Sunset Rooftop Market
Aloha Stadium Swap Meet & Marketplace

Friday

Art + Flea
Koʻolau Night Market

Saturday

Mālama Hawaiʻi Makers Market
Waikīkī Artfest
Koko Marina Makers Market
Made With Aloha Gift Fair
Aloha Stadium Swap Meet & Marketplace

Sunday

Waikīkī Artfest
Made With Aloha Gift Fair
Island Crafters Market
Aloha Stadium Swap Meet & Marketplace

🛍️ Mālama Hawaiʻi Makers Market

Curated, no published rule

2nd and 4th Saturday · 10am–4pm

Ala Moana Center, Mall Level 2, Mauka Wing near Target1450 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96814

Admission.: Free

Original artwork, hand-crafted jewellery, home decor and packaged baked goods. The organiser describes it as curated and says vendors are selected on product quality — which is a screen, not a published handmade rule.

Worth knowing. The best-evidenced entry on this page: the mall publishes 26 dates for 2026 and even documented moving the March market a week for weather. If anything here is right, it is this.

Mālama Hawaiʻi Market · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🌅 Waikīkī Makers Market

Crafters and resellers

Every Monday · 4pm–8pm

Waikīkī Beach Walk226 Lewers Street, Honolulu, HI 96815

Admission.: Free
Vendors.: Around 30

Handcrafted goods alongside food and drink stalls. A pleasant hour on a Monday evening rather than a serious craft fair.

Worth knowing. Only the organiser lists this. Waikīkī Beach Walk’s own site does not mention it and its events page is dead. Ring before you make a trip.

Island Craft Fairs & Events · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🌇 Sunset Rooftop Market

Crafters and resellers

Every Wednesday · 4pm–8pm

Royal Hawaiian Center, 4th floor, Ka Lewa Lānai

Admission.: Free

On the rooftop lanai above Royal Hawaiian Center, which is worth the lift ride on its own. The same centre runs free lei making on Fridays and lauhala weaving on Wednesdays downstairs.

Island Craft Fairs & Events · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🎨 Waikīkī Artfest

Curated, no published rule

One weekend a month, most months · 9am–4pm

Kapiʻolani Regional Park, between the zoo and the bandstand3840 Paki Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96815

Admission.: Free
Parking.: Free

The closest thing to a regular juried made-in-Hawaiʻi fair, in a park, with free parking — which almost nothing in Waikīkī has. New artists go through a screening before they are even sent an application.

Worth knowing. It skips some months and cancels individual dates without much notice — there was no April fair in 2026 and the August Saturday was cancelled. Check the current listing before you go.

HAA HandCrafters & Artisans Alliance · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

⛵ Koko Marina Makers Market

Crafters and resellers

4th Saturday, February to October · 10am–3pm

Koko Marina Center7192 Kalanianaʻole Hwy, Honolulu, HI 96825

Admission.: Free

The east side option, and the venue publishes its 2026 dates properly. Note the gap: no market in January, November or December, which most listings get wrong by assuming it runs all year.

Island Craft Fairs & Events · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🎁 Made With Aloha Gift Fair

Crafters and resellers

Occasional weekends · 10am–5pm

Pearlridge Center

Admission.: Free
Vendors.: Around 38 at the February 2026 edition

Indoors and air-conditioned, which in August is not nothing.

Worth knowing. Two of the organiser’s own listings give different street addresses for this fair, at Pali Momi Street and at Moanalua Road. We are not printing either until it is resolved — go by the mall name.

Island Craft Fairs & Events · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🧺 Island Crafters Market

Crafters and resellers

1st and 2nd Sunday · 11am–3pm

The Park on Keʻeaumoku

Admission.: Free

Small and central. The organiser publishes no address, admission or vendor count for it.

Island Craft Fairs & Events · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🖤 Art + Flea

Curated, no published rule

1st and 3rd Friday · 5pm–9pm

Capitol Modern, the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum250 South Hotel St, Honolulu, HI 96813

Admission.: Free

The design-led one, and it lines up with First Friday downtown so you can do both. Their permanent shop, Mori, is a different thing from the market — people conflate the two constantly.

Worth knowing. Their own site publishes no 2026 dates. Confirm the series is still running before you plan around it.

Art + Flea · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🌮 Koʻolau Night Market

Food market, some craft

2nd Friday, February to November · 5pm–9pm

Windward Mall car park, near Haiku Road46-056 Kamehameha Hwy, Kāneʻohe, HI 96744

Admission.: Free

Predominantly food trucks. Listed here because it is filed as a craft fair everywhere else and it is not one — go for dinner, not for shopping.

Island Craft Fairs & Events · Their page · checked 2026-08-13

🏟️ Aloha Stadium Swap Meet & Marketplace

No handmade distinction

Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday · Wed and Sat 8am–3pm · Sun 6:30am–3pm

Halawa parking lot — enter at Parking Gate 399-500 Salt Lake Blvd, ʻAiea, HI 96701

Admission.: $2 for ages 12 and over · $1 kamaʻāina with ID and active military · free for under-12s
Parking.: $2 per vehicle. Cash only at every gate, including admission.
Vendors.: Over 400

Late November

Blaisdell Exhibition Hall777 Ward Ave, Honolulu, HI 96814

Admission. Free in 2025, with $8 parking

The 49th ran in November 2025 with forty-plus booths, organised by the City’s Parks and Recreation department. A 50th is not confirmed. Be careful reading that page — the 2026 on it is the site copyright, not the event year, which is exactly how stale fairs get republished as current.

Their page · checked 2026-08-13

Why so much of what you find is out of date

Three widely-circulated Honolulu round-ups dominate the search results for this subject. One is a pop-up market guide from August 2025, one covers night markets and is from April 2025, and one lists forty-four holiday markets and craft fairs — every date in it is a 2025 date.

They are well researched. They are also snapshots, and they are being read as current. Where we could check them against a venue or organiser, details had already drifted — one market that they list as second Saturday is second and fourth Saturday on the mall’s own 2026 calendar.

The practical rule: never plan a trip off a round-up without checking the venue or organiser page, and treat everything in the November and December block as unconfirmed until the autumn. School, church and community fairs publish four to eight weeks ahead, which is why last year’s list is always the one that ranks.

If you want a booth

This half is why the guide exists. Nobody puts the fee, the deadline, the handmade rule and the kit requirement in one place, and a maker cannot plan a season from what is published — 7 of the organisers below publish a booth fee, and several of the biggest markets on this island publish nothing at all.

The tax thing, first

Hawaiʻi-specific, non-optional, and most organisers will not mention it.

· You need a general excise tax licence to sell anything in Hawaiʻi, including at a one-day craft fair. It is not optional and there is no hobbyist exemption.
· It costs $20, once, on Form BB-1 or through Hawaii Tax Online. If you are only doing one event, there is a one-time-event option on the same form.
· The rate on Oʻahu is 4.5% — 4% state plus the half-point Honolulu county surcharge. The most you may add at the till to pass it on is 4.7120%.
· The fine for trading without a licence is $500 for most businesses and $2,000 for cash-based ones. A craft stall taking cash is a cash-based business.
· Three organisers enforce it in writing: Islandwide want the number on the application, Aloha Stadium want the original certificate at the box office, and Made in Hawaiʻi want it displayed at your booth. Most say nothing — which devolves the responsibility to you rather than removing it.

The kit you have to own

Before you look at a single booth fee, this is the capital cost of doing fairs here at all.

· A 10x10 tent. Assume you are supplying it. The only show we found that provides pipe, drape, a table and chairs is the Made in Hawaiʻi Festival.
· Twenty-pound weights, one per leg. Three separate organisers specify exactly that figure, and one of them will refuse to let you set up without them.
· Your own table and chairs. One organiser rents a table with a chair for $10, and that is the exception.
· Your own power. Two organisers state plainly that you bring a generator or go without, and nobody publishes a socket.
· Public liability insurance, probably. Only one public coverage figure exists on this island — a million dollars, for food vendors at one fair. Everyone else either says nothing or, like the two biggest shows, requires it and will not tell you the level until after you have been accepted.

What a booth costs, cheapest first

Fifteen dollars to three thousand six hundred, and the cheapest one has the strictest handmade rule. Every field that says “not published” means we went and looked at the organiser’s own vendor page and it is not there.

🌾 North Shore Country Market

North Shore Country Market

$15 a day

Space.: 8ft by 4ft under the awning, or 10ft by 10ft outside
Deadline.: Not published.
Screening.: No jury.
Handmade rule.: Their own words: all products must be grown, produced or handmade in Hawaiʻi by the seller or their appointed family member. One of only two genuine made-in-Hawaiʻi rules we found.
Tent and weights.: Bring your own tables, tarps, signs and props, and secure them.
Power.: Not published.
Insurance.: Not published.
GET licence.: Required, and they tell you the $20 fee and the 4.5% rate themselves.
Commission.: None
Load in and out.: In before 8:15am, market 8am–1pm, you may stay set until 2pm. $3 charge if you leave your space dirty.

The cheapest verified booth on this island by a distance, and it has a real handmade rule, which means you are not standing next to a table of imported phone cases. If you are testing whether a product sells, start here.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

🤝 Pacific Arts Market

Pacific Arts Market — a cooperative

$250 for the whole three-weekend run if you join in, $350 if you do not. Bigger spaces $375–$600.

Space.: 10ft by 10ft, with a few 8 by 12 options
Deadline.: Not published.
Screening.: Local artisans of handmade wares.
Handmade rule.: Handmade.
Tent and weights.: Not published.
Power.: Not published.
Insurance.: Not published.
GET licence.: Not published.
Commission.: None — they say so explicitly, which almost nobody does.
Load in and out.: You leave the booth up across all three weekends and must be present during opening hours. No disassembly in between.

The most transparent fee structure of anything here, and the participant discount is the interesting part: join a committee — cleanup, promotions, event support — and you pay a hundred dollars less. It is a co-op, so you are buying in rather than renting.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

🏬 The mall and shopping-centre circuit

808 Craft and Gift Fairs Hawaii

Published per fair: Palisades $35 · City Square $50 · Koʻolau Center $60 · Koko Marina from $90 · Waterfront Plaza from $100 · Windward City from $135 · Pearl City from $140 · Waimalu from $145

Space.: 10ft by 10ft, or a 6ft by 5ft covered lanai space with one table and nothing else
Deadline.: None — spaces are allocated in the order payment is received.
Screening.: None. First come, first served.
Handmade rule.: No handmade requirement. Their listings explicitly welcome artisans, crafters, jewellers, direct sellers, resellers and packaged snack vendors — so you will be sharing the floor with resale and direct sales.
Tent and weights.: You must provide your own 10x10 tent and 20lb weights on each leg. Their words: setup will not be permitted without these weights.
Power.: Not published.
Insurance.: Craft vendors are told they are responsible for their own. Food vendors at Windward City need $1,000,000 of liability cover with a certificate naming three specific parties.
GET licence.: Not enforced — they say vendors are responsible for their own taxes and licences.
Commission.: None
Load in and out.: Setup from 8am and no earlier. Some fairs require you to stay for the whole thing.

By far the easiest way onto a floor on Oʻahu — you buy the space through a shop cart like any other product, and there is no application to be rejected from. That is also the trade: no screening means no protection from the stall of resale next to you. A combo deal on two fairs was published at $250.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

🏟️ Aloha Stadium Swap Meet

Sodexo Live for Aloha Stadium

Daily: standard $30, premium $125. Monthly, per day of the week: standard $85, standard plus $110, premium and retail $330.

Space.: No wider than two parking bays and about 21ft deep
Deadline.: Not published.
Screening.: None whatsoever.
Handmade rule.: No handmade rule and no distinction between made and resold.
Tent and weights.: Bring your own, and every support must be secured against wind. You may not tie anything to stadium property.
Power.: Not published.
Insurance.: No coverage figure published. Vendors are liable for any damage they cause.
GET licence.: Enforced at the counter. You bring your original Hawaiʻi GET licence and photo ID in person to the Sodexo box office.
Commission.: None
Load in and out.: Set up by 7:30am Wednesday and Saturday, 6am Sunday. Close at 3pm, off the property by 5pm. No early breakdown.

The highest footfall on the island and the lowest barrier. Two things worth knowing: buying or borrowing a stall from another vendor means immediate and permanent loss of your own, and they tell new vendors not to spend a cent on insurance or permits before the in-person meeting — which is unusually decent advice from a landlord.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

🌺 Kokua Kailua Village Stroll

Kailua Village Business Improvement District

Kailua merchants and restaurants $50 · island-wide artists $75 · coffee $75 · specialty $75 · nonprofits free

Space.: Not published.
Deadline.: Ten days before the event. Late entries go on a waitlist.
Screening.: You are approved only for the items listed on your registration.
Handmade rule.: Not published.
Tent and weights.: Not published.
Power.: Not published.
Insurance.: Not published.
GET licence.: Not published.
Commission.: None published
Load in and out.: Not published.

Kailua town closes a street and fills it, which is a genuinely good day if your work suits that crowd. Only two coffee vendors and two nonprofits are taken per month, so those slots go early.

Do not budget off this without ringing. Their published artist rule says the work must be made on the Big Island. Kokua Kailua is on Oʻahu. That looks like an uncorrected copy-paste in the organiser’s own text rather than a real requirement — but do not assume, ring and ask before you pay.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

🎄 Islandwide Crafts & Food Expo

Infante Ohana

Publishes no booth fee

Space.: Not published.
Deadline.: None published. Applications are requested by email.
Screening.: Every product you intend to sell must be listed on the application and approved.
Handmade rule.: The strictest on the island, in their own words: every item for sale must be self-made and quality-guaranteed. Premade items embellished with your own designs are allowed. Imported items, items made by others, unmounted gems, metal chains and craft supplies are all barred. You must be Hawaiʻi-based or have Hawaiʻi ties.
Tent and weights.: Not published.
Power.: Not published.
Insurance.: Not published.
GET licence.: Required. Your GET licence number goes on the application.
Commission.: Not published.
Load in and out.: Not published.

Running since 1987, on Thanksgiving weekend at the Blaisdell, and twice named the best holiday market in Hawaiʻi by a national food magazine. The rules are the clearest published anywhere here; the fee is not published at all until you request the application.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

🌟 Made in Hawaiʻi Festival

Made in Hawaii Festival

Standard 10x10 $825 · corner $925 · 20x20 island $3,600 · booth sharing adds $200

Space.: 10ft by 10ft, and this is the one show where the table comes with it
Deadline.: Not published.
Screening.: Acceptance is at the festival’s discretion and they reserve the right to refuse for any reason.
Handmade rule.: Made in Hawaiʻi is a legal definition here, not a house rule: at least 51% of wholesale value added by manufacture, assembly, fabrication or production within the state.
Tent and weights.: Not needed. Pipe and drape, one skirted 6ft table, two chairs, a bin, a booth sign, wifi and air conditioning are included.
Power.: Not published.
Insurance.: General liability required, and the coverage level is only given to you after acceptance.
GET licence.: Enforced on the floor — your licence must be displayed at the booth at all times.
Commission.: None
Load in and out.: Load out only after 5pm on the final day. Closing early costs $150 a time.

The biggest and the most expensive, and the only one where you turn up to a furnished booth rather than a patch of car park. Booth sales are final and non-transferable, so be sure before you commit.

Do not budget off this without ringing. Those fees come from a 2023 vendor agreement, which is the most recent one published. The live 2026 vendor page carries floor maps and nothing else — no fee, no deadline, no application form. Budget from these figures at your own risk and email them first.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

🥬 The Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau farmers markets

Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau

From $33 to $88 a week per 10x10 depending on market and tier, plus $90 a year membership and a month’s fees as deposit

Space.: 10ft by 10ft
Deadline.: Not published.
Screening.: There is often a waitlist, and applying does not mean acceptance — their words.
Handmade rule.: This is the important one, and it is a negative: crafts, clothing and services are not allowed. Non-food items are barred unless you grew or processed them yourself, such as flowers or beeswax. Logo t-shirts and caps are permitted with approval as long as they are not your main line.
Tent and weights.: Weights of at least 20lb on each leg.
Power.: You bring your own.
Insurance.: A certificate naming specific parties, which differ by market. The required coverage level is not published.
GET licence.: A copy of your licence on file at least seven working days before you attend.
Commission.: None
Load in and out.: Twenty minutes to unload, and all vehicles out half an hour before opening.

Listed here so you do not waste a week on it. The KCC, Blaisdell, Kailua and Mililani farmers markets are effectively closed to craft vendors — if you make things rather than grow or cook them, these are not for you.

Vendor page · checked 2026-08-13

Run a market, publish nothing

These are real markets actively taking vendors. You cannot find out what a space costs without submitting an application, and in one case without creating an account first.

Honolulu Night Market at Our Kakaʻako — one of the largest markets on the island, and it publishes no fee, no space size, no deadline, no handmade rule, no insurance requirement. You submit a form and hope.
Island Craft Fairs & Events — eight or more recurring markets across Oʻahu and not one published booth fee. The application sits behind an account wall, and their FAQ page still has placeholder text in it.
Mālama Hawaiʻi Makers Market — actively recruiting and curated, with no published fee. One useful thing they do publish: they are not currently taking new jewellery vendors.
Ward Village — runs a farmers market and publishes no vendor route for makers at all.
HGEA Downtown Holiday Craft & Gift Fair — the 2025 vendor application page now returns a 404 and nothing has replaced it.

Moved, changed or unclear

Aloha Stadium Swap Meet — moved, not closed

Confirmed

Relocated in October 2025 out of the stadium ring road and into the Halawa parking lot, entered at Gate 3.

Evidence. Announced by Aloha Stadium, which is a state agency, because of construction for the new entertainment district. The stadium itself is being demolished. Several travel pages imply the swap meet ended with it; it runs three days a week as before.

Honolulu Night Market — no longer monthly

Confirmed

It now runs roughly once or twice a year rather than on a monthly cycle.

Evidence. Documented editions in November 2024, July 2025 and July 2026, with no further 2026 date announced by the organiser. Listing it as a recurring monthly market, as several guides still do, will send people to an empty street.

Okinawan Festival — reduced for 2026

Confirmed

A scaled-down edition, with no early admission and no bon dance.

Evidence. Stated by the organiser, because of convention centre renovations.

Pacific Handcrafters Guild — status unknown

Unresolved

We could not confirm this long-running guild is still operating. No 2026 fair, no working website, no application form.

Evidence. The only page that ranks for it no longer resolves. A business directory entry exists, which is not evidence of activity. We found no announcement of dissolution either, so we are not saying it has stopped — only that we could not find it. The Waikīkī park fair niche it once occupied is now visibly served by HAA HandCrafters & Artisans Alliance, but no source states any connection between the two.

How this was checked

Everything here came off an organiser’s or a venue’s own page on 2026-08-13. Where the two disagreed, the venue won — a shopping centre publishing its own 2026 calendar is better evidence than an event listing, and in one case the venue had documented moving a market by a week for weather, which is what active maintenance looks like.

The vendor half is held to a stricter standard than anything else on this site, because a maker will spend real money on it. An unverified booth fee is worse than no booth fee. Where an organiser publishes none, the card says so. The Made in Hawaiʻi figures come from a 2023 agreement and that is stated on the card rather than quietly presented as current.

One organiser’s own artist rule says the work must be made on the Big Island, for a fair that takes place in Kailua on Oʻahu. That reads like an uncorrected copy-paste rather than a real requirement, and we have printed what the page says and told you to ring rather than silently correcting it. Another organiser’s page still shows 2023 deadlines as though they were current.

We run a craft studio here and we sell at these fairs, so this is the guide we wanted and could not find. Our verification standards cover the rest.

If you organise a fair and we have your fee or your rules wrong — or you would like your booth information listed where makers can actually find it — send it over. Free, like everything here.

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