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Garage Sale Trends in the US
A look at the US community-sale market: when sales happen across the week, what kind of sale they tend to be, which states see the most activity, and when garage sale season actually peaks each year.
When do sales actually happen?
Sat is by far the busiest day, which probably surprises no one.
What kind of sales are they?
Self-reported by the listing. Garage and yard sales dominate, with estate and moving sales next.
Where the activity is, by state
Top 15. Coverage reflects both real volume and which cities Stoople is currently scraping.
When is garage sale season?
The short answer: late spring through early fall, peaking in summer.
US garage sale activity follows a strong, predictable seasonal curve. Public search interest for “garage sales near me” and “yard sales” (per Google Trends, multi-year data) starts climbing in April, peaks in June and July, stays high through August, and tapers off through September and October. Winter (November through February) is the quietest window almost everywhere outside Florida, Texas, Arizona, and Southern California.
Weekend timing is even more predictable than seasonality: Saturday morning is by far the busiest slot, with Friday and Sunday a distant second and third. The chart above is built from Stoople's live index and shows the same pattern.
We'll publish our own month-over-month chart once Stoople has a full season of data behind it. Until then we won't pretend a three-week snapshot is a seasonal trend.
Methodology
Numbers cover only currently active sales (status active, with a real start date). Expired listings are excluded.
Live data is pulled hourly from Stoople's aggregated index of public garage, yard, estate, moving, and free-pile listings across the US. This page is a snapshot of where things stand right now, not a long-running historical trend; for the seasonal pattern we rely on multi-year public search data (see “When is garage sale season?” above).
Sale type, city, and state come from the source listing. Day-of-week is computed from the listing's start date.
Snapshot generated May 20, 2026 at 9:43 PM UTC.