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Week on, week off custody schedule alternating weeks on a printable 2027 calendar

Alternating weeks is the simplest 50/50 schedule: a full week at each home, swapping on the same day every week. It has the fewest changeovers of any even split, two every fortnight.

	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu
Week 1	Home A	Home A	Home A	Home A	Home A	Home A	Home A
Week 2	Home B	Home B	Home B	Home B	Home B	Home B	Home B

7–7 nights in 14 2 changeovers longest away 7 nights

Home A 189 nights (51.8%) Home B 176 nights (48.2%) 57 changeovers in 2027

This schedule as a packet for both homes A month a page for each home with every changeover and holiday, the year's totals, and a calendar the children can read. One payment, no app or subscription. Make the packet

Year

2026 2027 2028

The schedule starts The first night of a stretch at Home A, as your plan counts it.

First nights at

Home A Home B

The two homes Plain nights, then boxed nights. Kept on this device only.

Holidays

New Year's Eve (the night of December 31) Easter weekend (Friday and Saturday nights, back Sunday evening) Mother's Day weekend (Friday and Saturday nights, back Sunday evening) Memorial Day weekend (Friday to Sunday night, back Monday evening) Father's Day weekend (Friday and Saturday nights, back Sunday evening) Fourth of July (the night of July 4) Labor Day weekend (Friday to Sunday night, back Monday evening) Halloween (the night of October 31) Thanksgiving (Wednesday to Saturday night) Christmas Eve (the night of December 24) Christmas Day (the night of December 25) The child's birthday (the night of the birthday)

The child's birthday Optional: for the birthday holiday.

Summer, breaks and trips

From the first night to the last. Holidays still win over them.

Week starts on

Sunday Monday

Your schedule and names stay on this device and print as you see them.

2027 Custody Calendar

Alternating weeks schedule from Jan 1

Home A: plain · Home B: boxed · month: nights at each · notch: changeover · underlined: holiday or stretch

Home A 189 nights · Home B 176 nights

January

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1 : night at Home A, changeover	2 : night at Home A
3 : night at Home A	4 : night at Home A	5 : night at Home A	6 : night at Home A	7 : night at Home A	8 : night at Home B, changeover	9 : night at Home B
10 : night at Home B	11 : night at Home B	12 : night at Home B	13 : night at Home B	14 : night at Home B	15 : night at Home A, changeover	16 : night at Home A
17 : night at Home A	18 : night at Home A	19 : night at Home A	20 : night at Home A	21 : night at Home A	22 : night at Home B, changeover	23 : night at Home B
24 : night at Home B	25 : night at Home B	26 : night at Home B	27 : night at Home B	28 : night at Home B	29 : night at Home A, changeover	30 : night at Home A
31 : night at Home A

February

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1 : night at Home A	2 : night at Home A	3 : night at Home A	4 : night at Home A	5 : night at Home B, changeover	6 : night at Home B
7 : night at Home B	8 : night at Home B	9 : night at Home B	10 : night at Home B	11 : night at Home B	12 : night at Home A, changeover	13 : night at Home A
14 : night at Home A	15 : night at Home A	16 : night at Home A	17 : night at Home A	18 : night at Home A	19 : night at Home B, changeover	20 : night at Home B
21 : night at Home B	22 : night at Home B	23 : night at Home B	24 : night at Home B	25 : night at Home B	26 : night at Home A, changeover	27 : night at Home A
28 : night at Home A

March

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1 : night at Home A	2 : night at Home A	3 : night at Home A	4 : night at Home A	5 : night at Home B, changeover	6 : night at Home B
7 : night at Home B	8 : night at Home B	9 : night at Home B	10 : night at Home B	11 : night at Home B	12 : night at Home A, changeover	13 : night at Home A
14 : night at Home A	15 : night at Home A	16 : night at Home A	17 : night at Home A	18 : night at Home A	19 : night at Home B, changeover	20 : night at Home B
21 : night at Home B	22 : night at Home B	23 : night at Home B	24 : night at Home B	25 : night at Home B	26 : night at Home B, Easter weekend	27 : night at Home B, Easter weekend
28 : night at Home A, changeover	29 : night at Home A	30 : night at Home A	31 : night at Home A

April

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1 : night at Home A	2 : night at Home B, changeover	3 : night at Home B
4 : night at Home B	5 : night at Home B	6 : night at Home B	7 : night at Home B	8 : night at Home B	9 : night at Home A, changeover	10 : night at Home A
11 : night at Home A	12 : night at Home A	13 : night at Home A	14 : night at Home A	15 : night at Home A	16 : night at Home B, changeover	17 : night at Home B
18 : night at Home B	19 : night at Home B	20 : night at Home B	21 : night at Home B	22 : night at Home B	23 : night at Home A, changeover	24 : night at Home A
25 : night at Home A	26 : night at Home A	27 : night at Home A	28 : night at Home A	29 : night at Home A	30 : night at Home B, changeover

May

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
						1 : night at Home B
2 : night at Home B	3 : night at Home B	4 : night at Home B	5 : night at Home B	6 : night at Home B	7 : night at Home A, changeover	8 : night at Home A
9 : night at Home A	10 : night at Home A	11 : night at Home A	12 : night at Home A	13 : night at Home A	14 : night at Home B, changeover	15 : night at Home B
16 : night at Home B	17 : night at Home B	18 : night at Home B	19 : night at Home B	20 : night at Home B	21 : night at Home A, changeover	22 : night at Home A
23 : night at Home A	24 : night at Home A	25 : night at Home A	26 : night at Home A	27 : night at Home A	28 : night at Home A, Memorial Day weekend	29 : night at Home A, Memorial Day weekend
30 : night at Home A, Memorial Day weekend	31 : night at Home B, changeover

June

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1 : night at Home B	2 : night at Home B	3 : night at Home B	4 : night at Home A, changeover	5 : night at Home A
6 : night at Home A	7 : night at Home A	8 : night at Home A	9 : night at Home A	10 : night at Home A	11 : night at Home B, changeover	12 : night at Home B
13 : night at Home B	14 : night at Home B	15 : night at Home B	16 : night at Home B	17 : night at Home B	18 : night at Home A, changeover	19 : night at Home A
20 : night at Home A	21 : night at Home A	22 : night at Home A	23 : night at Home A	24 : night at Home A	25 : night at Home B, changeover	26 : night at Home B
27 : night at Home B	28 : night at Home B	29 : night at Home B	30 : night at Home B

July

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1 : night at Home B	2 : night at Home A, changeover	3 : night at Home A
4 : night at Home B, changeover, Fourth of July	5 : night at Home A, changeover	6 : night at Home A	7 : night at Home A	8 : night at Home A	9 : night at Home B, changeover	10 : night at Home B
11 : night at Home B	12 : night at Home B	13 : night at Home B	14 : night at Home B	15 : night at Home B	16 : night at Home A, changeover	17 : night at Home A
18 : night at Home A	19 : night at Home A	20 : night at Home A	21 : night at Home A	22 : night at Home A	23 : night at Home B, changeover	24 : night at Home B
25 : night at Home B	26 : night at Home B	27 : night at Home B	28 : night at Home B	29 : night at Home B	30 : night at Home A, changeover	31 : night at Home A

August

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1 : night at Home A	2 : night at Home A	3 : night at Home A	4 : night at Home A	5 : night at Home A	6 : night at Home B, changeover	7 : night at Home B
8 : night at Home B	9 : night at Home B	10 : night at Home B	11 : night at Home B	12 : night at Home B	13 : night at Home A, changeover	14 : night at Home A
15 : night at Home A	16 : night at Home A	17 : night at Home A	18 : night at Home A	19 : night at Home A	20 : night at Home B, changeover	21 : night at Home B
22 : night at Home B	23 : night at Home B	24 : night at Home B	25 : night at Home B	26 : night at Home B	27 : night at Home A, changeover	28 : night at Home A
29 : night at Home A	30 : night at Home A	31 : night at Home A

September

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1 : night at Home A	2 : night at Home A	3 : night at Home A, Labor Day weekend	4 : night at Home A, Labor Day weekend
5 : night at Home A, Labor Day weekend	6 : night at Home B, changeover	7 : night at Home B	8 : night at Home B	9 : night at Home B	10 : night at Home A, changeover	11 : night at Home A
12 : night at Home A	13 : night at Home A	14 : night at Home A	15 : night at Home A	16 : night at Home A	17 : night at Home B, changeover	18 : night at Home B
19 : night at Home B	20 : night at Home B	21 : night at Home B	22 : night at Home B	23 : night at Home B	24 : night at Home A, changeover	25 : night at Home A
26 : night at Home A	27 : night at Home A	28 : night at Home A	29 : night at Home A	30 : night at Home A

October

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1 : night at Home B, changeover	2 : night at Home B
3 : night at Home B	4 : night at Home B	5 : night at Home B	6 : night at Home B	7 : night at Home B	8 : night at Home A, changeover	9 : night at Home A
10 : night at Home A	11 : night at Home A	12 : night at Home A	13 : night at Home A	14 : night at Home A	15 : night at Home B, changeover	16 : night at Home B
17 : night at Home B	18 : night at Home B	19 : night at Home B	20 : night at Home B	21 : night at Home B	22 : night at Home A, changeover	23 : night at Home A
24 : night at Home A	25 : night at Home A	26 : night at Home A	27 : night at Home A	28 : night at Home A	29 : night at Home B, changeover	30 : night at Home B
31 : night at Home B, Halloween

November

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1 : night at Home B	2 : night at Home B	3 : night at Home B	4 : night at Home B	5 : night at Home A, changeover	6 : night at Home A
7 : night at Home A	8 : night at Home A	9 : night at Home A	10 : night at Home A	11 : night at Home A	12 : night at Home B, changeover	13 : night at Home B
14 : night at Home B	15 : night at Home B	16 : night at Home B	17 : night at Home B	18 : night at Home B	19 : night at Home A, changeover	20 : night at Home A
21 : night at Home A	22 : night at Home A	23 : night at Home A	24 : night at Home A, Thanksgiving	25 : night at Home A, Thanksgiving	26 : night at Home A, Thanksgiving	27 : night at Home A, Thanksgiving
28 : night at Home B, changeover	29 : night at Home B	30 : night at Home B

December

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1 : night at Home B	2 : night at Home B	3 : night at Home A, changeover	4 : night at Home A
5 : night at Home A	6 : night at Home A	7 : night at Home A	8 : night at Home A	9 : night at Home A	10 : night at Home B, changeover	11 : night at Home B
12 : night at Home B	13 : night at Home B	14 : night at Home B	15 : night at Home B	16 : night at Home B	17 : night at Home A, changeover	18 : night at Home A
19 : night at Home A	20 : night at Home A	21 : night at Home A	22 : night at Home A	23 : night at Home A	24 : night at Home B, changeover, Christmas Eve	25 : night at Home A, changeover, Christmas Day
26 : night at Home B, changeover	27 : night at Home B	28 : night at Home B	29 : night at Home B	30 : night at Home B	31 : night at Home A, changeover, New Year's Eve

Holidays and set stretches

Mar 26–27 Easter weekend: Home B
May 28–30 Memorial Day weekend: Home A
Jul 4 Fourth of July: Home B
Sep 3–5 Labor Day weekend: Home A
Oct 31 Halloween: Home B
Nov 24–27 Thanksgiving: Home A
Dec 24 Christmas Eve: Home B
Dec 25 Christmas Day: Home A
Dec 31 New Year's Eve: Home A

How alternating weeks work

The children spend seven nights at one home and then seven at the other. Families usually swap on Friday after school or Sunday evening; set the start day to your swap day and the calendar follows it all year.

Some plans add a midweek dinner with the other parent so the week apart isn't a full week without contact. Add it as an evening on your own copy, or ask your plan's wording.

Who it suits

Older children and teenagers, who handle a week apart better and move between homes less often. For young children, a week is a long time without a parent, which is why the shorter rotations are more common for them.

Pros and cons

For it: the fewest changeovers of any even split, two a fortnight; simple to remember and to plan around; each home has a full week of routine.

Against it: a week is a long time without a parent for young children; a parent may go seven nights without seeing them, which is why some plans add a midweek dinner.

Questions

Which day should we swap on?

Friday swaps give each home a full weekend and start the week at the same home as the weekend; Sunday or Monday swaps make school-week planning simpler. The calendar uses whatever day you start it on.

How do holidays work?

Holidays come first: set each one to alternate by odd and even years, to stay with one home, or to follow the schedule, and the calendar moves those nights. The holiday schedule page explains the usual rotation.

Can I add summer or a trip?

Add the stretches that differ from the regular schedule (summer weeks, a school break, a trip) with their dates and whose they are. They show underlined on the sheet and listed under it, and the nightly totals count them.

What prints?

Print it from the page and it prints exactly as you set it up, names included, on one Letter or A4 page. The PDFs are the example on this page. For a copy for each home and a month-by-month version with room to write, there's the packet.

2027 night by night

Home A has 189 nights (51.8%) and Home B 176 nights (48.2%), with 57 changeovers.

Month	Home A	Home B
January	17	14
February	14	14
March	15	16
April	15	15
May	17	14
June	14	16
July	15	16
August	17	14
September	19	11
October	14	17
November	16	14
December	16	15

Add it to your phone. Each home's nights as a calendar file, one event per stretch, for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. Made on this device.

Week on, week off custody schedule, 2027: every night of the year at each home, on one printable page — The printed page, as the PDF prints it. Save to Pinterest

This applies a schedule as it's commonly written. It isn't legal advice: your court order or parenting plan controls, including its exact times, holidays and exceptions.

The 2027 calendar, a night to a day

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Holidays and set stretches

How alternating weeks work

Who it suits

Pros and cons

Questions

2027 night by night