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2017 U.S. Monthly Auto Sales Calendar And Selling Days For Every Month

2017 monthly calendar

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.