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Where to Buy
Tempo is stocked at 269 licensed dispensaries across California, with the deepest coverage in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Jose. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one, or filter by product type if you are after a specific format.
Market Insights Snapshot
In August 2026, Tempo concentrated 89.51% of sales in Vapor Pens with a 19.87% year-over-year lift, while the same category fell 26.09% month over month, indicating a sharp intra-quarter pullback against a growing annual base; Concentrates held 10.49% share with a 0.99% year-over-year decline and a 5.62% month-over-month dip, pointing to limited offset during the monthly contraction. With overall brand sales up 17.02% year over year and average price down 7.67%, the mix skews toward lower realized price points in Vapor Pens alongside volume-driven gains, implying that August 2026 performance was carried by prior-period momentum rather than current-period velocity.
Given a 41 rank position in Vapor Pens in California and a category mix where Vapor Pens account for 89.51% versus 10.49% for Concentrates, the brand’s positioning leans heavily on a single growth engine under price compression of 7.67% and a short-term category retrenchment of 26.09% month over month. The combination of a 19.87% year-over-year gain in Vapor Pens and a 0.99% decline in Concentrates suggests reliance on mainstream pen demand for scale while ceding differentiation in adjacent formats, implying that sustaining trajectory will require stabilizing monthly pen sell-through or modestly reallocating toward higher-margin sublines within Concentrates to buffer volatility.
Competitive Landscape
Tempo sits at rank #41 in CA Vapor Pens in August 2026, unchanged year over year at #41, after sliding from #32 in May 2026 to #41 by August 2026; that nine-spot drop contrasts with Jetty Extracts climbing from #4 to #3 with 40.5% YoY sales growth while Plug Play fell from #3 to #4 with a 14.3% YoY decline. The flat YoY rank alongside a three-month deterioration from #32 to #41 suggests Tempo’s position is being eroded at the margins by upward movers like Jetty Extracts even as some top players contract, implying stagnation risks unless recent share losses are reversed.
Notable Products
Tempo’s August 2026 story is led by contraction at the top: Mystic Mango Ice Distillate Disposable (1g) held rank 1 while falling 15.9% month over month, and OG Grape Live Resin Disposable (1g) slid 18.5% at rank 2. Strawberry Beltz Distillate Disposable (1g) dropped 34.9% while holding rank 6, and Blue Razz Ice Distillate Disposable (1g) declined 29.3% at rank 8, pointing to broad pullback in flavored Vapor Pens. With nine of the top ten SKUs in Vapor Pens and only one Concentrates SKU entering at rank 10, the mix indicates category saturation at the top while value-seeking or assortment fatigue pressures most pen variants despite one modest gainer.
Huckleberry Ice Distillate Disposable (1g) was the exception, up 2.0% at rank 3 versus Kiwi Kush Distillate Disposable (1g) down 12.7% at rank 4, highlighting selective preference within the same format. Kush Mints Ice Distillate Disposable (1g) decreased 30.4% at rank 9, while Yuzu Haze Distillate Disposable (1g) fell 17.3% at rank 5, and total dollar concentration remains high at the top where the leading SKU captured $55,575. The pattern implies Tempo’s commercial direction is still anchored in Vapor Pens but needs tighter SKU focus on a few resilient flavor profiles and exploration of adjacent formats to offset category-wide volatility.
Top Selling Cannabis Brands
Data for this report comes from real-time sales reporting by participating cannabis retailers via their point-of-sale systems, which are linked up with Headset’s business intelligence software. Headset’s data is very reliable, as it comes digitally direct from our partner retailers. However, the potential does exist for misreporting in the instance of duplicates, incorrectly classified products, inaccurate entry of products into point-of-sale systems, or even simple human error at the point of purchase. Thus, there is a slight margin of error to consider. Brands listed on this page are ranked in the top twenty within the market and product category by total retail sales volume.
