The U.S. auto industry’s sales calendar is not exactly like the calendar hanging on the back of your office door.
December 2016, for example, begins on December 1, 2016, but does not end until Tuesday, January 3, 2017.
But that’s an even shorter December than in 2015, when December featured 28 selling days, one more than in 2016.
Here then is the complete U.S. auto sales calendar for the 2017 calendar year, which stretches from the fourth day of January 2017 all the way to the second day of January 2018. Confusing? Just keep this auto sales calendar handy.
The U.S. Auto Industry’s 2016 Auto Sales Calendar
This explains why you’ll often hear so much discussion in certain months on the subject of daily selling rates. Although January, February, March, June, and November of 2017 are all the same length as their equivalent months one year earlier, April, July, October, and December will be shorter; May, August, and September will be longer.
Month
|
Beginning
|
End
|
Reporting Day
|
Selling Days
2017 |
Selling Days
2016 |
January 2017
|
1/4/2017
|
1/31/2016 |
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
|
24 | 24 |
February 2017
|
2/1/2017
|
2/28/2017 |
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
|
24 | 24 |
March 2017
|
3/1/2017
|
04/02/2017 |
Monday, April 3, 2017
|
27 | 27 |
April 2017
|
4/3/2017
|
5/1/2017 |
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
|
26 | 27 |
May 2017
|
5/2/2017
|
5/31/2017 |
Thursday, June 1, 2017
|
25 | 24 |
June 2017
|
6/1/2017
|
6/30/2017 |
Monday, July 3, 2017
|
26 | 26 |
July 2017
|
7/3/2017
|
7/31/2017 |
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
|
25 | 26 |
August 2017
|
8/1/2017
|
8/31/2017 |
Friday, September 1, 2017
|
27 | 26 |
September 2017
|
9/1/2017
|
10/2/2017 |
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
|
26 | 25 |
October 2017
|
10/3/2017
|
10/31/2017 |
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
|
25 | 26 |
November 2017
|
11/1/2017
|
11/30/2017 |
Friday, December 1, 2017
|
25 | 25 |
December 2017
|
12/1/2017
|
1/2/2018 |
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
|
26 | 27 |
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Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the free and frequent publication of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures. Follow on Twitter @goodcarbadcar and on Facebook.