When is Amazon Prime Day 2025 and what will the best deals be?
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The Amazon Prime Day sale is nearly here. In previous years, it has taken place on a Tuesday and Wednesday in the middle of July, which would suggest that Prime Day 2025 will be on July 8-9, July 15-16 or possibly July 22-23. We will know very soon.
This could be a good time to make your next big purchase. The best Amazon Prime Day deals are invariably on Amazon's own products such as Echo Dot speakers, Kindle e-Readers, Fire TVs and Ring video doorbells. But past years have also seen considerable discounts on electric toothbrushes, clothes steamers and some of the most sought-after headphones, including Apple Airpods.
Below, you can read our predictions for the best deals to expect on Amazon Prime Day this year, based on previous sales events. Many of our top-rated products are discounted in these events. First though, here are the answers to some common questions.
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It will be in the middle of July, starting at midnight on a Tuesday and lasting for 48 hours. We expect Amazon to reveal the exact date very soon.
Yes, only subscribers to Amazon Prime will get the Prime Day discounts. Happily, that includes free trial members, who can benefit from 30 days' Prime membership before having to pay the standard £8.99 a month or £95 a year. Prime for students is half the price and free for the first six months. You have to prove you are enrolled on a course.
With an Amazon Prime subscription you get unlimited premium delivery and access to Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading and other benefits including lightning deals. Read our Amazon Prime review to find out more.
No, there are two Prime Day sale events. The first is in mid-July and the second, sometimes called Prime Big Deals Day, is in mid-October.
The best way is to bookmark this page, which is constantly updated with the best genuine deals. If you know what you want to buy, you could make a wish list on Amazon or at a site such as Pricerunner which can alert you when prices drop. Read my guide to finding the best deals for more tips.
Prices are inflated beforehand in many cases, so it's important to check using a pricetracker such as CamelCamelCamel or Keepa. These will show you the price history of any product on Amazon.
We only recommend deals if they are genuinely at their lowest price. Claimed discounts of 50 per cent or more are usually not what they seem: the actual discount is often less than five per cent. Anything over 10 per cent off the real average price is genuinely good value.
Yes, items bought on Prime Day have the same returns policy as on any other day of the year. Amazon allows returns within 30 days of receipt if the goods are in an unused and undamaged condition, with a few exceptions.
Some people think they can buy a discounted item on Prime Day and return it for a refund after the price has gone back up, making a profit. This doesn't work. You will only be refunded what you paid.
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This is never known ahead of time, but we can make reasonable predictions based on past Amazon sale events. Here's a selection of Telegraph Recommended-approved products which saw genuine discounts in Amazon's Spring Deal Days in March.
Current price: £69.99
Average price over last six months: £80
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £54.99
Best budget tablet
The Fire HD 8 launched last year as a lower-cost option in Amazon's own tablet range. In March's sale it dropped to £55, which is £25 less than usual.
The Fire HD 8 doesn't have the most high-end spec, but this tablet was still good enough to score 7/10 in our recent review. It's lightweight, has decent battery life, and helps keep you connected with your chosen streaming, social media and communication apps, and was named the best budget tablet in our best tablets roundup.
Read our full Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet review.
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Current price: £39.99
Average price over last six months: £37
Price in the March Amazon Spring Sale: £24.99
Amazon's latest basic streamer
This is the newest version of Amazon's streaming stick for non-4K TVs, and has key services such as Netflix, Prime Video, BBC iPlayer and Disney Plus streaming in an aesthetically updated package.
In our review of the Fire Stick HD, the device's exceptional voice commands, setup process and streaming services contributed to an impressive overall score of 8/10. Usually, one of these smart little sticks would set you back about £37 but you could pick one up for £25 in the Spring Deals sale. We expect to see similar discounts for Prime Day.
Read our full Amazon Fire TV Stick HD (newest gen) review.
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Current price: £469
Average price over last six months: £448
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £429
Best compact tablet
Apple's devices don't often see discounts so when one appears, even just a small one, it's worth considering. The iPad mini (A17 Pro) is the latest compact tablet from Apple, usually sold for about £450. It dropped to £430 in Amazon's last sale event.
We picked it as the best tablet for everyday use in our guide to the best tablets. In her iPad mini (A17 Pro) review, Britta O'Boyle said: 'There's a lovely, lightweight design, a bright and vibrant display and swish performance. The iPad mini (A17 Pro) is a superb compact tablet that's perfect for everyday use and very portable.'
Read our full iPad mini (A17 Pro) review.
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Current price: £1,048.95
Average price over last six months: £980
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £849
Best folding phone
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 was reduced to £849 in the March sale, which was a saving of 16 per cent on the usual price. We saw the same discount in last November's Black Friday sales. It's our top pick for the best folding phone in our best smartphones guide, offering fast performance and an improved battery life.
Reviewer Rob Waugh said: 'Samsung finally hit the sweet spot for folding phones with the Z Flip 5, after almost a decade of showing off foldable screens at tech shows followed by four generations of handsets, and the new Flip 6 builds on the considerable strengths of its predecessor.' He mentions cost as a drawback, but with this deal, it's certainly less of one.
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Current price: £84.99
Average price over last six months: £114
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £69.99
Best kids tablet overall
The Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids is our overall top pick of the best tablets for kids. It's already reduced but in the March sale the price dropped to its lowest ever at £69.99, compared to the usual £114. It has a great battery life and the price includes a two-year, worry-free guarantee where Amazon will replace it if it breaks.
Reviewer Britta O'Boyle described the parental controls on the device as excellent, as the Amazon parent dashboard enables you to ensure children can only access age-appropriate content. She also said the dashboard lets you monitor screen time, approve app requests and block websites remotely from your phone, and she praised the included robust case with its built-in stand too.
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Current price: £94.99
Average price over last six months: £94
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £79.99
Best budget e-reader
Amazon's entry-level Kindle dropped from £95 to £80 for Black Friday and again in the March sale. A similar hefty discount for Prime Day looks very likely.
The Amazon Kindle delivers a superb reading experience, with access to an expansive library of e-books. It offers an incredibly portable design too, allowing you to catch up on your latest read whether you're on a sun lounger or squashed onto a packed tube.
Reviewer Alan Martin said: 'While the costlier Paperwhite tops our list of the best Kindles, the Kindle 2024 offers 90 per cent of the features and that will be sufficient for most readers.'
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Current price: £199
Average price over last six months: £197
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £177.99
Best noise-cancelling headphones
Awarded Best Buy in our guide to the best noise-cancelling headphones, the Sony WH1000XM4 dropped to £178 in the March sale and in the past have been available for as little as £175, a good price for such an excellent pair of cans.
They are not the brand's newest headphones. The current M6 version has additional noise-cancelling features, but these still have over 30 hours of battery with noise-cancelling turned on and they deliver a superb mix of performance and price.
Reviewer Rob Waugh said: 'In the under-£200 bracket, these are undisputed sound quality champions, with breathtakingly realistic music where the vocals sound like you're in the room with the person.'
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Current price: £79.99
Average price over last six months: £75
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £54.99
Best smart alarm clock
Our favourite smart alarm clock, the Echo Spot dropped to £55 in the March sale and has been known to drop to £45. Perfect for a bedside table, the Echo Spot has a display to show you the time and other important information, like the weather.
It also has built-in Alexa, allowing you to perform various functions from controlling your smart home devices to playing your favourite music or podcasts, and the design is small and compact so it doesn't attract too much unwanted attention.
In our Echo Spot review, Alan Martin said it was a 'charming little smart speaker' with the 'sound quality good enough for the bedroom and Alexa a helpful assistant'.
Read our full Amazon Echo Spot review.
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Current price: £369.99
Average price over last six months: £402
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £339
Best smart 4K TV
Ahead of the sale, Amazon has already dropped the price of its own Fire TV by about £30 but you might be advised to hold off until Prime Day before buying.
What do we think of the Amazon Fire TV? In our round-up of the best 4K TVs our television expert, Chris Hall, called it the best smart 4K TV, with its Alexa voice assistant integration and breadth of apps.
Screen quality is superb for the price, too, with the TV adapting to the light levels in your room and tweaking the picture accordingly.
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Current price: £199.99
Average price over last six months: £178
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £129
Best Ring wireless doorbell
If you're looking to improve your home security you can do a lot worse than the Ring Video Doorbell Pro. Loaded to the hilt with useful features, the Video Doorbell Pro is the only Ring camera with head-to-toe imaging, ideal for identifying packages left on your doorstep. It's currently more expensive than usual, so wait for the (probable) hefty Prime Day discount before buying.
In our review of the best video doorbells, our reviewer Kulwinder Rai found that the fisheye camera offered plenty of detail and was particularly impressed with the Colour Night Vision, allowing him to identify nearby car number plates even in low light.
£129
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Current price: £759
Average price over last six months: £763
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £659
Best entry-level flagship handset
Prime Day could be a smart time to pick up a previous-generation flagship smartphone for less. Samsung's Galaxy S24 has since been replaced by the Galazy S25 Ultra, but the differences were not huge. If you can pick last year's model up for the £660 we saw in the March sale, you will save a fortune.
You get the same set of Galaxy AI tricks, including the ability to remove unwanted objects from the background of your pictures with just a tap and instant translations during calls. The display is immaculate, too, with true-to-life colour accuracy and a high level of brightness.
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Current price: £1,099
Average price over last six months: £1,126
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £1,099
Best iPhone for largest screen
Apple's top-of-the-range iPhone is already back down to its Spring Sale price. At just five per cent off, this doesn't meet our usual 10 per cent threshold, but keep an eye out: there's a small chance it could dip further on Prime Day. Even if not, a £25 discount is better than none.
The iPhone 16 is undoubtedly expensive, but worth the outlay. You can read all about why our reviewer Britta O'Boyle rates it (including for its cameras and fast performance) in our best iPhone guide.
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Current price: £269
Average price over last six months: £225
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £149
Best lift-away vacuum for pet hair
As any pet owner knows, it takes a special kind of vacuum cleaner to gracefully gather animal hairs, especially if you have a long-haired cat or dog. One of the best you can get is the Hoover HL5 Pets, which we consider one of the top vacuum cleaners for pet hair, earning a score of 9/10 during our hands-on testing.
We regard this model as the best lift-away vacuum cleaner for pet hair, thanks especially to its impressive suction. The cleaner's HEPA 13 filter will help prep a feline-owning home for visitors who are allergic to cats, too. It was discounted by over £75 in Amazon's spring sale, so should be worth keeping a very close eye on.
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Current price: £260
Average price over last six months: £238
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £183.99
Best pet vacuum cleaner for older users
The GTech AirRAM dropped to £184 in the March sale, its lowest price ever. It's our top pick for older users in our best pet vacuum cleaners guide thanks to its lightweight build and ease of use.
When Simon Lewis reviewed it, he said: 'Although the AirRAM K9 is far less powerful than the other vacuums we tried, the suction is actually pretty great. The large, rectangular head leaves clear, broad stripes where it's been, like a proper floor cleaner should.'
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Current price: £249.99
Average price over last six months: £211
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £169.99
Best dual air fryer for steaming
The Philips 5000 Series 9L NA555/09 Dual Basket Steam Air Fryer dipped to a record low £169.99 in the March sale, which is a saving of £40 on the average price.
When we reviewed it for our best air fryer guide, we loved the steam function and the option to cook both frozen and fresh fries. Reviewer Rebecca Shepherd said the Philips 5000 Series air fried food brilliantly and 'each test resulted in dishes that were golden brown, deliciously crisp and nowhere near dry'.
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Current price: £749
Average price over last six months: £714
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £599.99
Best bean-to-cup coffee machine
Our Best Buy in our best bean-to-cup coffee machine guide dropped to its lowest ever price in the Spring event, about £150 less than it's currently on sale for. It offers a fantastic range of coffee options, is very easy to use and has a compact footprint.
Reviewer Anna Tobin said in her De'Longhi Rivelia Automatic review: 'When tested against other bean-to-cup coffee machines the De'Longhi Rivelia came out as our favourite overall because it produces several different types of great-tasting coffee and it's super simple to operate and pretty easy to keep clean'.
Read our full De'Longhi Rivelia Automatic Coffee Machine review.
£599.99
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Current price: £44.95
Average price over last six months: £44
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £38
Best memory foam pillow
We tend not to see many sleep deals worth shouting about in Amazon events, but the March sale saw a few pounds off our favourite memory foam pillow from our round-up of the best pillows for a good night's sleep. And given you can't put a price on a full eight hours, we'll take the savings where we can.
Despite apprehensive first impressions (it's a lot flatter than a traditional pillow), our reviewer Abigail Buchanan was soon won over once she started sleeping on it. She was impressed with its breathability, and said: 'It is supremely supportive and comfortable once you lie down, and the hypoallergenic bamboo pillow cover is very soft to the touch.'
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Current price: £148.48
Average price over last six months: £141
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £107.98
Best budget coffee machine
The current price is higher than average for this compact bean-to-cup machine, which is a good indication that a price drop is on the horizon. The March sale saw it slashed by £33.
Our coffee expert Silvana Franco was impressed with this affordable machine, naming it the best budget-friendly option in her best coffee machines review round-up. It's not going to give you barista-quality coffee or fancy features such as grind size adjustment, but what you do get is an easy way to make classic, filter-style black coffee at home.
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Current price: £32.99
Average price over last six months: £31
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £24.99
Best iced coffee maker
We named this model the best iced coffee maker in our test of the best coffee machines. You use it pretty much like a filter coffee maker, and place a cup with ice beneath the coffee as it pours out (possibly squirting in a syrup for added flavour), and is an easy-to-use budget-friendly option.
It's never expensive, but was reduced by 20 per cent in the March sale, which is about as good a genuine discount as you can get in Amazon sales.
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Current price: £339
Average price over last six months: £359
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £299
Best carpet cleaner overall
The March discount on the Bissell Revolution HydroSteam brought the top-performing product from our best carpet cleaners round-up down to its lowest price ever, at £299. Bissell's carpet cleaner is equipped with innovative steam cleaning tech that impressed our reviewer Kulwinder Rai.
'This machine categorically outperforms every other consumer-grade wet carpet cleaner I've tested, which is no mean feat,' he said. 'Even deeply embedded, dried-in blood and wine stains succumbed to its ministrations, once given a couple of passes of pure steam pre-treatment.'
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Current price: £135
Average price over last six months: £125
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £99.99
Best epilator overall
The Panasonic ES-EY90-A511 Wet and Dry Epilator was crowned Best Buy in our best epilator guide and saw a very decent discount of £25 in the Spring sale.
Reviewer Annabel Fenwick Elliott said: 'What a fantastic piece of kit. Not only was this the most efficient model for epilation, thanks to its somewhat-scary looking, combine harvester-esque double-row of tweezer discs, it also comes with an impressive array of extra accessories – including, most importantly, a small head that you can use on areas like the chin. This also makes it the best epilator for the face, and even toes.'
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Current price: £92
Average price over last six months: £90
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £69.99
Best water flosser
We named the Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser the Best Buy in our best water flosser guide, so we were thrilled to see it reduced to £70 both on Black Friday and in the Amazon Spring sale. It's simple to use, packs away neatly and it offers three intensity modes.
Reviewer Rebecca Astill said she thought this water flosser was 'almost perfect' when she reviewed it. 'I'd recommend starting out on the low mode as water flossing is quite a strange sensation if you haven't tried it before. I've built my way up and now favour the high mode and I've really noticed a difference in my gum line and overall mouth health,' she added.
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Current price: £65.92
Average price over last six months: £118
Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £67.49
Best budget sonic toothbrush
Similar to the far more expensive Oral-B iO10 but costing much less, the iO3 has a handy brush head replacement reminder and a built-in pressure sensor, with the toothbrush flashing either red or green depending on how hard you might be pressing when brushing.
Our reviewer, Rebecca Astill, said: 'The surprisingly quiet sonic vibrations do provide a thorough clean of the mouth, reaching all the hard to reach corners and crevices.'
It's already reduced by £44 from its fairly steep average price, but we predict the price on Prime Day could fall even lower, as it did in the Spring sale.
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We all remember those commercials from the 1980s where someone says, 'I've fallen and I can't get up.' While those devices still exist, many people now rely on their smartphones to call for help. But what happens when someone can't reach their phone? For older adults, especially those living alone, this is a genuine concern. That is where Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant, can help. But it is not a one-step solution. If you want Alexa to be part of your emergency plan, you need to set it up in advance. Yes, and no. Alexa cannot call 911 unless you subscribe to a paid service called Alexa Emergency Assist. This add-on costs about $6 per month and connects the user with trained agents who can call emergency services on their behalf. Once subscribed, a person needs to say, 'Alexa, call for help,' and they will be connected to a live agent who can assess the situation and arrange assistance. It will also contact up to 25 emergency contacts to inform them that you need help. If you do not want to pay for the Emergency Assist subscription, there is a useful workaround. You can manually add trusted contacts to the Alexa app. These could include family members, close friends, or neighbors who can assist in an emergency. Once those contacts are saved, the user can say, 'Alexa, call [name],' and Alexa will dial their number. To add a contact: Open the Alexa app. Tap 'Communicate' at the bottom of the screen. Go to 'Contacts.' Tap the plus sign to add a new contact. Enter the name and phone number. Save the contact. This allows someone to call for help hands-free, even if they cannot reach a phone. The person on the other end can then call 911 if needed. Alexa also has a feature called Drop In, which works like an intercom. If your devices are on the same Amazon account, you can say, 'Alexa, Drop In on all devices,' and everyone connected will hear the call. This is especially helpful for families checking in on loved ones or for situations where multiple Echo devices are spread throughout the home. While Alexa cannot call 911 directly without a paid subscription, Siri on iPhones can. Saying 'Call 911' or 'I need help' will trigger the emergency call function on most iPhones. Just be cautious when testing it, because the call will go through in about 2 seconds. There is no option to call for help using Google Assistant. Alexa is a helpful tool for emergency preparedness, but it should not replace a phone or medical alert system. Without the Emergency Assist subscription, Alexa cannot contact emergency services directly. However, by setting up contacts and utilizing features like Drop In, it can add an additional layer of safety. Always test your setup and ensure that your loved ones know how to use it. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
