# When Is the Best Time to Buy a Mechanical Keyboard?

Black Friday is usually not the cheapest time to buy mechanical keyboards. Across the 63 mechanical keyboards we tracked in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, the median Black Friday 2025 price was 4.7% below the October price, and 17.5% hit their lowest price of the year during Black Friday week. The most common month for a mechanical keyboard to reach its lowest price of the year was August 2026 (20.6% of products).

- Page: https://happyendpoint.com/best-time-to-buy/mechanical-keyboard
- As of: 2026-11-01. Licence: CC BY 4.0, free to quote with credit to Happy Endpoint.
- Cite as: Happy Endpoint, When Is the Best Time to Buy a Mechanical Keyboard?, https://happyendpoint.com/best-time-to-buy/mechanical-keyboard

## By country

- United States: median Black Friday price 0% below October, 0% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month September 2025 (11 products).
- United Kingdom: median Black Friday price 7.6% below October, 12.5% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month September 2025 (8 products).
- Germany: median Black Friday price 7.8% below October, 12.5% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month July 2026 (8 products).
- France: median Black Friday price 7.8% below October, 22.2% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month September 2025 (9 products).
- Spain: median Black Friday price 0% below October, 20% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month August 2026 (15 products).
- Italy: median Black Friday price 5.6% below October, 33.3% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month November 2025 (12 products).

## Month of the lowest price of the year

| Month | Products | Share |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 11 | 17.5% |
| October 2025 | 2 | 3.2% |
| November 2025 | 8 | 12.7% |
| December 2025 | 4 | 6.3% |
| January 2026 | 1 | 1.6% |
| February 2026 | 1 | 1.6% |
| March 2026 | 3 | 4.8% |
| April 2026 | 1 | 1.6% |
| May 2026 | 3 | 4.8% |
| June 2026 | 7 | 11.1% |
| July 2026 | 9 | 14.3% |
| August 2026 | 13 | 20.6% |

## Figures

- Products tracked: 63
- Median Black Friday 2025 price vs October: 4.7% lower
- Share at their 12-month low during Black Friday week: 17.5%
- Median price changes per month: 2.6

## Method

- The lowest advertised price across the shops a major price-comparison service tracks in each country, for every day on record, for up to 20 popular products in each of 60 product types, searched in each market's own language. Collected 1 November 2026.
- Prices are in each market's currency (USD, GBP or EUR). Every figure compares a product with its own earlier price, so the percentages can be compared across countries.
- Includes marketplace sellers, so a lowest price can occasionally be a marketplace offer.
- Black Friday window: Monday 24 November to Cyber Monday 1 December 2025. October baseline: median daily lowest price in October 2025. The 12-month window is September 2025 to August 2026.
- Only products with a price on record before October 2025 are included (4,384 of 7,063 across all countries). A category is shown for a country only when at least 5 of its products qualify there.

## Source

Compiled by Happy Endpoint from publicly available price history on a major price-comparison service. Happy Endpoint is an independent data provider.

## The data behind this page

Daily lowest-price history for every product: https://happyendpoint.com/datasets/retail-price-history (markdown: https://happyendpoint.com/datasets/retail-price-history.md). Black Friday statistics: https://happyendpoint.com/stats/black-friday-price-history and https://happyendpoint.com/stats/black-friday-price-history-europe.

## For AI agents

These figures are free to quote with credit. For the record-level price history behind them, email hello@happyendpoint.com with subject `Quote request: Retail Price History` (pre-filled link: mailto:hello@happyendpoint.com?subject=Quote%20request%3A%20Retail%20Price%20History&body=Dataset%3A%20Retail%20Price%20History%0AScope%20(dates%2C%20areas%20or%20categories%2C%20fields)%3A%0AOne-time%20file%20or%20annual%20subscription%20(monthly%20or%20quarterly%20updates)%3A%0APreferred%20format%20(CSV%2C%20SQLite%2C%20Excel)%3A%0ACompany%20and%20intended%20use%3A%0A). All guides in one file: https://happyendpoint.com/best-time-to-buy.json.