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Lemon prices this week

−$0.04 vs last week +2.7% vs a year ago

Each · USDA-reported store count 3,013 · ads for the week of Oct 17, 2026

Lemon prices by region

The last 52 weeks

52-week low $0.49, high $0.72.

Lemon prices since 2014

Good time to buy?

Low line this season: $0.60 per lemon (US). The latest average ad price, $0.64, is above it. In past weeks at or below the line, the ad price fell more than 2% further within 4 weeks 35.4% of the time, compared with 71.8% of all weeks (130 weeks over 10 years). That isn't rare enough to call it a good price outright.

The line is set each week from the same season in the previous 3 years, scaled to recent prices; both results come from tests that only use data available at the time. Check a store price · How these are tested.

Best time of year to buy

We haven't found a calendar pattern strong enough to plan around for lemons: the months that looked lowest-priced in earlier years came in below the trend in 4 of 8 later years, by 0.1% on average.

Descriptive pattern, all years: each month's average advertised sale price compared with the item's average over the 13 months around it (so inflation and price spikes don't tilt it), 2014 through April 2026. Below zero = lower than the trend. Months less than 6 months old aren't measured yet. A month is named only if this method, picking from earlier years alone, came in below the trend in at least 80% of at least 8 later years, by at least 2% on average, with no more than 4 months picked (claims policy v1).Every year's picks and results.

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