The months on this calendar are ranked by how deep appliance promo codes actually run — the share of stores SimplyCodes tracked in each month whose deepest code took 25% off or deeper, pooled across every year on record and re-measured daily. It spans the whole aisle — refrigerators, washers and dryers, ranges and the countertop machines — and reads code depth rather than appliance prices.
December is the best month to buy kitchen and laundry appliances with a promo code. Across every year SimplyCodes has tracked, 28.4% of kitchen and laundry appliances stores running a percentage-off code in December had one at 25% off or deeper — the highest share of any month, and 12.4 points above the weakest month (May, 16.0%). Figures cover 3,468 store-months across the appliance brands and retailers SimplyCodes tracks — each store counted once for every month it ran a percentage-off code — as of September 2, 2026.
- December is the strongest month for kitchen and laundry appliances discounts — 28.4% of the kitchen and laundry appliances stores SimplyCodes tracked had a code 25% off or deeper that month, across 268 store-months measured.
- October is the runner-up at 22.5% — worth knowing if you miss December, and the reason this calendar is worth reading past its headline.
- May is the weakest month at 16.0% — a 12.4-point gap from December. Buying kitchen and laundry appliances in May means shopping the year's thinnest discount pool.
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Deep-discount share = the share of that month's kitchen and laundry appliances stores whose deepest percentage-off code was 25% off or more · bar = that share relative to the strongest month · store-months = the denominator behind each share, one per store per month it ran a percentage-off code · — = fewer than 3 retailers contributed that month, so no share publishes · free ship / free gift = at least one such offer verified in that month.
All years on record of kitchen and laundry appliances verification data across the appliance brands and retailers SimplyCodes tracks, counted once per store per month and grouped by calendar month · snapshot as of September 2, 2026
Frequently asked questions
When are appliances cheapest?
The calendar above ranks all twelve months by the share of appliance stores whose deepest code ran 25% off or deeper, and stamps the date the snapshot was taken. Cheapest is a price claim this study does not make: it names the months when appliance codes run deepest across the brands and sellers SimplyCodes tracks, which is the part of appliance discounting that a code can carry. That set includes KitchenAid, Frigidaire, Breville, Cuisinart, De'Longhi, Bosch, Miele, Speed Queen, Calphalon, Hamilton Beach, Forno Appliances and Appliance Warehouse, among others.
When is the best time to buy a refrigerator?
Refrigerator sellers sit inside the set this calendar measures, so the month ranking above covers them along with the rest of the appliance aisle. Read it with one caveat specific to big-ticket appliances: much of a refrigerator's discount arrives as floor-model clearance, a delivery-and-haul-away bundle or a manufacturer rebate, none of which run through a promo code.
Does the new model year change when appliances go on sale?
It changes what gets discounted more than it changes the code climate. Model-year turnover moves last year's units to clearance at each manufacturer's own pace, and that markdown usually appears as a lower shelf price. The code window this calendar tracks is market-wide and repeats by season, which is why it is worth reading alongside the clearance you find on the floor rather than instead of it.
Does a deep appliance discount mean the code will work at checkout?
They are separate questions. Depth is how much a code takes off, and reliability is whether it still applies at checkout — the Health Score (SimplyCodes' 0–100 measure of how likely a code is to work at checkout) on each code covers the second one. This calendar reads depth only, and each brand's own SimplyCodes page carries its current working codes.
Methodology
How SimplyCodes verifies codes. Behind every figure in this live data study is the SimplyCodes verification system. Coupon codes are tested at real checkout before they are listed, through three independent layers: daily automated testing, where headless browsers run through real checkout flows and record whether a discount actually applies. A human verification network of 10,000+ verifiers submits screenshot-and-timestamp proof. And a real-time fleet signal, where live checkout outcomes feed back into the engine. The calendar below summarizes that verification history month by month.
How this calendar is built. we take every store among the appliance brands and retailers SimplyCodes tracks and record, for each calendar month that store ran a percentage-off code, the deepest discount it offered that month — so "December" means every December on record, not one year's. For each month we report the share of those stores whose deepest code reached 25% off or more, alongside the number of store-months behind the share. This measures how many stores discount deeply in a given month, not how many individual codes did. Only percentage-off codes are counted, because fixed-amount offers are not comparable across price points. Percentage claims of 95% or more are excluded as implausible. And a month contributed by fewer than 3 retailers publishes no share at all
Cite this data
December is the best month to buy kitchen and laundry appliances with a promo code: 28.4% of kitchen and laundry appliances stores SimplyCodes tracks had a code 25% off or deeper in December, 12.4 points above the weakest month (May).
According to SimplyCodes verification data, December carries the deepest kitchen and laundry appliances discounts of any month — 28.4% of tracked kitchen and laundry appliances stores had a code 25% off or deeper, versus 16.0% in May.
