How Long Does a Used Honda Accord Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 2,159 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the midsize sedans it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Nov 2026 Sample: 2,159 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used Honda Accords sell within 34 days, against an all-vehicle median of 39 days — that is 5 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 15 days and a quarter take more than 71 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

34
days on lot
median
15–71
middle half
sells in
2,159
sales in
the sample
112,765
average
miles
$14,759
average
list price
$1,122
est. holding
cost*
“We need to buy and sell more cars to net the same profit levels.”
— An independent dealer in the Midwest, Cox Automotive's Q4 2025 Dealer Sentiment Index

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2010 moves fastest at 27 days, while the 2020 sits for 46.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles Avg list price
2022 Honda Accord 36 73 52,690 $24,770
2021 Honda Accord 35 108 67,110 $23,131
2020 Honda Accord 46 115 76,864 $22,087
2019 Honda Accord 34 161 87,313 $19,846
2018 Honda Accord 36 215 97,622 $18,511
2017 Honda Accord 28 214 109,210 $15,635
2016 Honda Accord 35 146 124,457 $14,683
2015 Honda Accord 38 160 120,270 $12,956
2014 Honda Accord 31.5 162 124,866 $12,697
2013 Honda Accord 34 159 131,575 $11,550
2012 Honda Accord 41.5 100 134,507 $10,187
2011 Honda Accord 40 70 135,383 $9,776
2010 Honda Accord 27 66 132,542 $9,009
2009 Honda Accord 36 77 138,425 $8,918
2008 Honda Accord 39 88 148,252 $7,712
2007 Honda Accord 31 51 139,049 $7,448

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 66.9 days while the median is 39. 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.

Average list price is the advertised price at the time of listing, not necessarily what the buyer paid — the field that records the actual sale price is populated on a small fraction of sales, too few to publish. We exclude listings under $500 or over $200,000 as data-entry artifacts.

*Est. holding cost is Honda Accord's median days on lot multiplied by $33, the industry-wide daily floorplan cost per vehicle reported in the NIADA 2025 Used Car Industry Report — an external benchmark, not a figure derived from AutoRaptor data. It's a reminder that a slower-turning model doesn't just sell later, it costs more to hold.

There's a second cost to sitting: Mid-Size Cars — the closest category to a Honda Accord — lost about 12.5% of their wholesale value over 2025, against 13.9% across all vehicles (Black Book, via the NIADA 2025 Used Car Industry Report). A car that sits isn't just costing floorplan interest — it's quietly worth less than it was when it arrived.

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