How Long Does a Used Honda Accord Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 2,043 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the midsize sedans it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Sep 2026 Sample: 2,043 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Honda Accords sell within 34 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 4 days faster than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. Among midsize sedans it ranks 3 of 8 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 14 days and a quarter take more than 72 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

34
days on lot
median
14–72
middle half
sells in
2,043
sales in
the sample
112,714
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2010 moves fastest at 25 days, while the 2020 sits for 46.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2022 Honda Accord 36 65 51,184
2021 Honda Accord 35 104 68,088
2020 Honda Accord 46 111 76,302
2019 Honda Accord 32 155 87,658
2018 Honda Accord 35 196 97,180
2017 Honda Accord 28 196 107,413
2016 Honda Accord 34 137 123,540
2015 Honda Accord 38.5 152 120,048
2014 Honda Accord 31.5 160 123,792
2013 Honda Accord 33.5 152 131,309
2012 Honda Accord 41.5 98 133,874
2011 Honda Accord 41 67 133,608
2010 Honda Accord 25 69 133,037
2009 Honda Accord 36 73 136,982
2008 Honda Accord 39.5 84 146,909
2007 Honda Accord 29 48 141,183

Model years with at least 40 recorded sales. Days on lot is the calendar gap between inventory entry and sale date.

Against the midsize sedans it competes with

Honda Accord 34 d
Kia Optima 41 d

Average days on lot, sales since January 2024. Shorter is better. Minimum 150 sales per model.

Methodology

Days on lot is the number of calendar days between a vehicle being added to a dealership's inventory and its recorded sale date. That clock starts at intake, so on units that need work it includes reconditioning time. We exclude vehicles with no entry date, sales recorded before the entry date, and anything over 730 days — those are data-entry artifacts, not slow-moving inventory.

We report the median, not the average. Turn time has a long right tail: a handful of units that sit for a year or more drag the mean well above what a normal car does. Across every vehicle we track, the mean is 66.7 days while the median is 38. The median answers the question a dealer is actually asking, and the quartiles show the spread around it.

These figures come from aggregated, de-identified activity across independent dealerships that use AutoRaptor. We report only totals across many dealerships, never an individual dealership's results. No customer records, buyer information or dealership names are included.

We publish a model only at 150 or more sales, and a model year only at 40 or more. We do not publish gross profit figures, because the price fields in our data are incomplete and any margin we reported would be wrong.

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