Cheapest Day to Hire Movers in Los Angeles

The Cheapest Day, Ranked

• Tuesday and Wednesday are the quietest days on every LA moving calendar. Nobody wants to burn a midweek vacation day, which means nobody is competing with you for the slot.
• Monday runs close behind, though it picks up from people who could not get a weekend date.
• Thursday starts filling as the weekend approaches, especially in summer.
• Friday is deceptively popular. Take one day off, get the whole weekend to unpack. Sensible plan, and thousands of other households in LA County have had the same idea.
• Saturday is the most requested day of the week, every week of the year.
• Sunday stays busy, and some companies price it at a premium because it pushes crews into overtime.

The Week of the Month Matters Just as Much

This is the part people miss. Apartment leases across Los Angeles overwhelmingly start on the first, which packs the final week of every month, every month.

If a lease or escrow locks you into month end, there is not much to do about it. But plenty of people have a week or two of overlap between the old place and the new one and burn it by defaulting to the 31st. If you have that overlap, use it. Moving on the 15th instead of the 30th is free money.

Stack the Season on Top

The third layer is time of year. Peak moving season in Los Angeles runs Memorial Day through Labor Day, driven by school calendars, university turnover, and lease cycles, as Extra Space Storage’s LA cost breakdown notes. October through April is the quiet stretch.

Put all three layers together and the best and worst cases are clear.

• Cheapest realistic booking: a Tuesday, the 14th of February.
• Most expensive: a Saturday, the 30th of June.
• Same apartment, same crew, same truck. The difference between those two bookings in LA commonly runs into several hundred dollars.

Our guide to the best time to move to Los Angeles covers the seasonal side in full.

What You Are Actually Saving

Local LA moves are billed hourly, so savings come from two directions at once: a lower rate, and a faster job.

Los Angeles movers charge around $94 per hour per mover according to Angi’s 2026 data, with most people paying about $2,052 in total and a common range of $1,307 to $2,850.

Run a two-bedroom through both scenarios:

The midweek move also tends to finish faster. Crews are not stacking three jobs into one day, and LA traffic at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday is a different thing from a Saturday afternoon on the 405. On an hourly bill, a faster job is a cheaper job.

The Honest Trade-Offs

A midweek move is cheaper but not free of cost. Be straight with yourself about these.

• You may burn a vacation day. If a day of PTO is worth more to you than $300, the weekend might genuinely be the better call. Run that math before assuming midweek wins.
• Kids are in school. For some families that is a benefit, since the house is quieter. For others it means arranging pickup from an address that is mid-move.
• Utility and internet appointments are easier to schedule midweek, which is a point in favor.
• You unpack on a weeknight instead of having two full days. Some people find that harder.

A reasonable middle path: book a Thursday, take Friday off, and get the weekend to unpack without paying the Saturday rate.

Other Ways to Lower the Bill

The date is the biggest lever but not the only one.

• Book four to six weeks ahead. Late bookings take whatever is open, and what is open is rarely the cheap slot.
• Get three written quotes. Rates vary widely across LA, and that spread is worth finding.
• Pack everything yourself before the crew arrives. Boxes sealed and stacked by the door saves real hours. Our fragile item packing tips cover the parts worth getting right.
• Declutter first. Every item you do not move is time you do not pay for.
• Sort out parking. A long carry from a distant truck adds up fast on an hourly clock. On permit-parking blocks, a temporary no-parking permit keeps the truck at your door.
• Reserve the elevator. Waiting on a resident elevator with a loaded dolly is billable time.

Tip: Ask whether the hourly clock starts when the truck leaves the warehouse or when it arrives at your door. In a city this spread out, that single question can change your total by an hour.

When the Cheapest Day Is Not the Right Day

Some situations make chasing the lowest rate a false economy.

• Back-to-back escrow closings. If both transactions close the same day, your date is your date. Book early and stop optimizing.
• Building move-in windows. Many LA buildings restrict moves to weekdays between set hours. That may decide the day for you, and it usually decides in your favor.
• Coordinating out-of-town help. If family is flying in to help and can only come on a weekend, the weekend rate may be worth it.
• Large homes. A four-bedroom can run into a second day. Starting Thursday gives you Friday as the natural overflow day without touching the weekend.

Getting a Number for Your Date

The fastest way to see the difference is to ask for quotes on two dates instead of one. Pick your ideal day and a midweek alternative, and compare them side by side.

Simple Moving Company is licensed and insured under USDOT 3126394 and CAL-T 191762, based in Culver City and serving Los Angeles, Orange County, and the San Fernando Valley. Our LA Moving Company rates are all-inclusive, so blankets, boxes, packing, and reassembly are in the quote rather than added at the end.

Tell us the window you are working with and we will tell you honestly which dates inside it cost less. Call (888) 536-9158 for a free estimate.