White Friday & 11.11 Tracker: Noon and Amazon UAE Prices

The Gulf's November sales are 11.11 (Wednesday 11 November 2026; noon's 2025 sale ran 7-12 November) and the White Friday / Yellow Friday period around Friday 27 November (noon's Yellow Friday ran 20-30 November in 2025). To track them, start weekly price records on noon UAE and Amazon UAE / Saudi Arabia in mid-October, by product URL, and check every 6 hours during each sale, in AED or SAR.

This is the Gulf page of the cluster. It covers the sale names and windows, what can actually be scraped on noon and Amazon in the UAE and Saudi Arabia (with results from live runs on 20 October 2026), the URL details that decide the currency and language, and costs. The global calendar is in the retail sales calendar.

Three names, one season

Sale	Who runs it	2025 window	2026 anchor
11.11 (Singles' Day)	noon, Amazon UAE and other UAE retailers	noon: evening of 7 Nov to 12 Nov. Amazon UAE: until 12 Nov	Wed 11 Nov 2026
Yellow Friday	noon (named after its yellow logo)	20-30 Nov	around Fri 27 Nov 2026
White Friday	Gulf name for Black Friday, used by Amazon UAE and other brands	Amazon UAE reported as 22-29 Nov (Property Finder; we found no Amazon announcement)	around Fri 27 Nov 2026
Black Friday	many UAE retailers use the US name	Black Friday was 28 Nov 2025	Fri 27 Nov 2026
Dubai Shopping Festival	Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment	—	4 Dec 2026 - 17 Jan 2027 (announced)

The 2026 retailer windows weren't announced on 20 October 2026. The 2025 pattern suggests the 11.11 window opens a few days before the 11th, and the Friday sales run about a week either side of the Friday. Start the baseline before either could begin: mid-October.

What can be scraped (tested 20 October 2026)

All examples use the E-commerce Product Scraper Pro actor. Its README rates the Gulf sites below as best-effort, except noon's Saudi storefront, which it lists as unsupported. Our own runs on 20 October 2026 gave these results:

Site	Route	Result on 2026-10-20
noon UAE (noon.com/uae-en/)	browser for the first page, then residential with the browser's cookies	Delivered: 3 of 3 products in two separate runs, priced in AED
noon Saudi Arabia (noon.com/saudi-en/, /saudi-ar/)	none: not fetched	Unsupported. Akamai answered "Access Denied" on every route in the actor's October 2026 tests, including Saudi residential connections and the browser. Each input gets a status row with outcome: "unsupported" and costs nothing beyond the run's start fee
Amazon UAE (amazon.ae)	residential	Delivered, AED
Amazon Saudi Arabia (amazon.sa)	datacenter	Delivered, SAR, from Arabic and English product pages
IKEA UAE / Saudi Arabia	residential	Not tested today; best-effort in the README, first page of listings only

So for Saudi prices, use Amazon Saudi Arabia. The actor doesn't try noon's Saudi pages at all, so they cost no traffic or renders; the status row explains why. If a run contains only noon Saudi inputs, it ends as FAILED with that reason. Other Gulf retailers (Namshi, Sharaf DG, Carrefour, Lulu, Jarir, Extra) aren't in the supported-sites matrix, so we haven't tested them; any that run on Shopify or WooCommerce would fall under the actor's generic support.

noon is protected by Akamai. The actor handles it by rendering a page in a real browser to earn the session cookies, then fetching the rest over residential connections with those cookies. Few pages need the browser: a run of 60 noon UAE product URLs on 18 October 2026 delivered all 60 with 2 browser renders and 8 billed MB of residential traffic.

URLs: market, currency and language

• noon puts the market in the path. /uae-en/ is the UAE in English, /egypt-en/ Egypt, /saudi-en/ Saudi Arabia (unsupported, see above). The actor reads the path to set the currency (AED, EGP). The same product ID under /uae-en/ and /egypt-en/ comes back as two separate rows, one per market, so you can track both. The actor's keyword + marketplaces: ["www.noon.com"] search uses the UAE English site; for Egypt, paste that market's search URL into listingUrls.
• Amazon Saudi Arabia defaults to Arabic, and that's fine. The default Arabic product page https://www.amazon.sa/dp/B0DGHYPFGK returned on 20 October 2026 an Arabic title, price: 449, originalPrice: 599, currency: "SAR", inStock: true and brandName: "Apple". The actor reads Arabic availability text (Arabic-Indic digits included) and sets stockQty only from an explicit low-stock phrase on the new-item offer. If you want English titles, use the /-/en/ path, like https://www.amazon.sa/-/en/dp/B0DGHYPFGK; both forms work.
• No breadcrumbs on Amazon UAE or Saudi Arabia. breadcrumbs is an empty list on amazon.ae and amazon.sa rows, because Amazon doesn't put a category trail on those pages. Group those products by your own category list.
• One ASIN, two storefronts. The same ASIN often exists on amazon.ae and amazon.sa, which makes cross-market comparison easy (see below).

Watch product URLs, not search pages

Search results on noon reshuffle quickly. Two runs of the same noon UAE search for "samsung", 2 hours apart on 17 October 2026, returned 30 products each, and only 11 products appeared in both. Of those 11, one price changed (AED 1,168 to AED 1,167.55). If you track a search page, most of the "changes" you see are products entering and leaving the page. Use search pages to find candidates, then track the product URLs you care about.

Compare noon and Amazon UAE

This pulls one noon UAE search and the same keyword on Amazon UAE, and prints each price with its discount from the store's own was-price (pip install apify-client).

import os
from decimal import Decimal
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("constructive_calm/ecommerce-product-scraper-pro").call(
    run_input={
        # Noon: paste the search URL of the market you want (uae-en here)
        "listingUrls": [{"url": "https://www.noon.com/uae-en/search/?q=airpods%204"}],
        # Amazon.ae: keyword + marketplace
        "keyword": "airpods 4",
        "marketplaces": ["www.amazon.ae"],
        "followPagination": False,
        "maxItemsPerStartUrl": 3,
        "maxProductResults": 6,
    },
    max_total_charge_usd=Decimal("0.25"),
    logger=None,
)
for r in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    was = r.get("originalPrice")
    off = f"{(was - r['price']) / was * 100:.0f}% off was-price" if was else "no was-price"
    print(f"{r['site']:<10} {r['price']:>8.2f} {r['currency']}  {off:<22} {r['name'][:48]}")

Real output, 2026-10-20:

noon         554.00 AED  30% off was-price      AirPods 4 ANC Wireless Earbuds, Bluetooth Headph
amazon-ae    549.00 AED  27% off was-price      Apple AirPods 4 Wireless Earbuds, Bluetooth Head
amazon-ae    549.00 AED  no was-price           Apple AirPods 5 Wireless Earbuds
noon         427.00 AED  22% off was-price      AirPods 4 Wireless Earbuds, Bluetooth Headphones
noon         759.00 AED  20% off was-price      AirPods Pro 3 Wireless Earbuds, Bluetooth Headph
amazon-ae    429.00 AED  22% off was-price      Apple AirPods 4 Wireless Earbuds, Bluetooth Head

Five weeks before White Friday, both stores already show 20-30% "off" their was-prices. That is exactly why the November discount has to be measured against your own October baseline, not against the was-price. The fake discounts guide shows the baseline method.

noon rows also carry seller. On marketplaces with many sellers, the cheapest offer can come from a seller you wouldn't buy from, so keep the seller column in your comparison.

Compare the UAE and Saudi Arabia

Both currencies are pegged to the US dollar (AED 3.6725 and SAR 3.75 per dollar), so a fixed conversion is accurate enough for a price comparison:

# Same ASIN on amazon.ae and amazon.sa, converted at the official USD pegs.
PEG = {"AED": 3.6725, "SAR": 3.75}   # units per 1 USD

rows = [  # from a scraper run on 2026-10-20 (ASIN B0DGHYPFGK)
    {"site": "amazon-ae", "price": 429, "originalPrice": 549, "currency": "AED"},
    {"site": "amazon-sa", "price": 449, "originalPrice": 599, "currency": "SAR"},
]
for r in rows:
    usd = r["price"] / PEG[r["currency"]]
    off = (r["originalPrice"] - r["price"]) / r["originalPrice"] * 100
    print(f"{r['site']:<10} {r['price']:>5} {r['currency']} = {usd:6.2f} USD  ({off:.0f}% below was-price)")

amazon-ae    429 AED = 116.81 USD  (22% below was-price)
amazon-sa    449 SAR = 119.73 USD  (25% below was-price)

A schedule for the Gulf sales

Window (2026)	Cadence	Cron (UTC)	Note
~15 Oct - 5 Nov	weekly	0 4 * * 0	Baseline. 04:00 UTC is 08:00 in the UAE, 07:00 in Saudi Arabia.
~6 Nov - 13 Nov (11.11)	every 6 hours	0 2,8,14,20 * * *	06:00, 12:00, 18:00 and 00:00 UAE time.
14 Nov - 18 Nov	daily	0 4 * * *	Gap between the two sales.
~19 Nov - 1 Dec (Yellow / White Friday)	every 6 hours	0 2,8,14,20 * * *
4 Dec - 17 Jan (Dubai Shopping Festival)	daily	0 4 * * *	Optional.

Use monitor mode (monitorMode: true) with the same product URL list throughout: the actor's monitor state is keyed by the exact set of input URLs, and each row then carries changeType, previousPrice and priceChangePct.

What it costs

Pay per event, from the actor's README. FREE tier: $0.0048 per product row, $0.0004 per listing page, $0.008 per browser-rendered page, $0.018 per residential MB (billed at 89% of measured traffic, only for items that delivered), $0.005 per run start. GOLD: $0.0008, $0.00021, $0.006, $0.014.

• The noon + Amazon UAE run above was charged 6 products, 2 listing pages, 1 browser render and 2 residential MB. On FREE: $0.005 + 6 × $0.0048 + 2 × $0.0004 + $0.008 + 2 × $0.018 = $0.0786.
• The 60 noon product URLs mentioned above (60 products, 2 browser renders, 8 MB), on FREE: $0.005 + 60 × $0.0048 + 2 × $0.008 + 8 × $0.018 = $0.453.
• 1,000 noon products, using the README's measured 30-200 renders and 89-356 billed MB per 1,000: on FREE, $4.80 + $0.24-$1.60 + $1.60-$6.41 + $0.005 = about $6.65-$12.81. The README puts the same run at $2.23-$6.99 on GOLD.
• Amazon Saudi Arabia went through datacenter connections in our run, so it had no traffic fee: 3 products = $0.005 + 3 × $0.0048 = $0.0194 on FREE.

For runs with more than about 50 noon URLs, the README recommends 2 GB of memory (one extra $0.005 start event). Apify's free plan gives $5 of usage every month, no credit card required; the actor has no free trial of its own. The free e-commerce price tracker query builder builds the input without code and shows a fixed example of the output shape.

Related guides

• Ramadan and Eid sale price tracking, the Gulf's other big season
• Retail sales calendar 2026-2027
• How to spot fake Black Friday discounts
• Amazon price scraper by ASIN

Disclosure: I built the Apify actor and this site. The comparison scripts work on prices from any source.

Sources: Khaleej Times: 11.11 sales in the UAE (7 November 2025), Khaleej Times: Black, White, Yellow and Green Friday explained (21 November 2025), Property Finder: UAE White Friday 2025 deals, TradeArabia: Dubai Shopping Festival 2026-27, Wikipedia: UAE dirham and Saudi riyal (dollar pegs), the actor's README (supported sites, pricing, memory), and live actor runs on 2026-10-17 and 2026-10-20 (amazon.sa Arabic page and noon Saudi status row: run rm7jhN0AiKNMb6V6K, build 0.1.16).