When Is the Best Time to Buy a Microwave?

When microwaves hit their lowest price

Share of products that reached their lowest price of the year in each month, September 2025 to August 2026. November, the Black Friday month, is highlighted.

By country

• United States: median Black Friday price 7.4% below October, 11.1% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month June 2026 (18 products).
• United Kingdom: median Black Friday price 8.7% below October, 31.3% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month September 2025 (16 products).
• Germany: median Black Friday price 2.5% below October, 20% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month September 2025 (20 products).
• France: median Black Friday price 2% below October, 23.5% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month October 2025 (17 products).
• Spain: median Black Friday price 5% below October, 5% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month June 2026 (20 products).
• Italy: median Black Friday price 6.8% below October, 0% at their 12-month low that week, most common low month September 2025 (18 products).

Questions

When Is the Best Time to Buy a Microwave?

Black Friday is usually not the cheapest time to buy microwaves. Across the 109 microwaves we tracked in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, the median Black Friday 2025 price was 4.8% below the October price, and 14.7% hit their lowest price of the year during Black Friday week. The most common month for a microwave to reach its lowest price of the year was October 2025 (13.8% of products).

How much do microwaves drop in price on Black Friday?

For the 109 microwaves tracked, the median Black Friday 2025 price was 4.8% below the October price.

Which month are microwaves cheapest?

The month in which the most microwaves reached their lowest price between September 2025 and August 2026 was October 2025 (13.8% of the 109 products tracked).

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.

Free to quote under CC BY 4.0 with credit: Happy Endpoint, When Is the Best Time to Buy a Microwave?, https://happyendpoint.com/best-time-to-buy/microwave. Also as markdown and in one JSON file with every guide.

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