Mumbai's APMC Yards: Which Market Sells What, and When It Opens
If you are deciding whether to get up at 4:00 AM, make one call first. APMC — the Agricultural Produce Market Committee — runs Mumbai's licensed wholesale yards and publishes a trading timetable for them. It publishes nothing about whether a private buyer may walk in. The head office in Vashi, on 022-27888414, is the only body that can answer that — and one call is all it takes.
On which yard sells what, and when it opens, APMC's own Auction Timetable beats every travel page in the search results — and on two yards it contradicts them outright.
The yards, and what each one sells
Trades are APMC's own, from each yard's page; the windows are from its Auction Timetable, read on 9 November 2026.
| Yard | What it sells | Published window |
|---|---|---|
| Fruit Market, Turbhe | Fruit | 4:00 AM – 3:00 PM |
| Vegetable Market, Turbhe | Vegetables | 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM |
| Onion-Potato Market | Onions and potatoes | 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
| Masala Market (the timetable's "Market 1") | Spice and masala | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
| Grain Market 2 (the timetable's "Market 2") | Grain | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
| Thane Market | — | None published |
| Dadar, Krantisinh Nana Patil Mandai | Nothing traded | — |
Thane does not appear on the timetable at all, so APMC publishes no window for it — call the office rather than assume it keeps the grain yard's hours. Dadar's Krantisinh Nana Patil Mandai is on APMC's own list and trades nothing: "No goods are traded here. Many things are under development." Cross it off before you plan around it.
Two windows every guide gets wrong
Search for Mumbai wholesale market timings and page after page tells you the same thing: the trade starts before dawn and is finished by 8:00 AM. For the fruit yard that is half true; for the vegetable yard it is wrong, and the difference is the whole morning.
The vegetable yard is not a dawn market. It opens at 2:00 PM and trades until midnight (02:00 PM – 00:00). Turn up at 5:00 AM and you will find the gates shut.
The fruit yard is the dawn market, but not a dawn-only one. It runs 4:00 AM to 3:00 PM (04:00 – 15:00): a pre-dawn start, then 11 hours of trade past midday. Anyone who says the fruit trade is over by breakfast has not read the timetable.
Addresses and phones
- Fruit Market: Turbhe, Thane-Belapur Road, Sector 19, Turbhe 400703. Phone 022-27841378.
- Vegetable Market: Turbhe, Sector 19. Phone 022-27846507.
- Masala Market: Sector 19, Vashi 400703. Phone 022-27666510, extension 5142.
- Grain Market 2: Phase 2, Sector 19, Vashi. Phone 022-27838318.
- Onion-potato, Thane and Dadar: no separate address or number published. Use the head office.
The head office is at the Administrative Building, Sector 18, Vashi 400703, on 022-27888414 or 27881400, and at [email protected].
What APMC does not publish
Two gaps matter more than the times themselves.
The first is entry. APMC publishes no visitor, tourist or household-buyer policy — not for the fruit yard, not for any of them. Its only statement on access is that the Committee is "empowered to regulate the entry of persons and vehicles", a power rather than a rule. Whether you get past the gate is a question for the office on 022-27888414, and it is worth asking before you travel rather than at 4:00 AM in Turbhe.
The second is days. The timetable is a column of times with no day names and no holiday notice. It cannot tell you whether a yard trades on a Sunday, a public holiday, or the morning you have chosen. Confirm the day when you call.
The timetable tells you when each yard opens. The office tells you whether you can buy, and on which day. Plan the trip around those two answers, not the 4:00 AM folklore.
