Holiday split planner: Canada

How to split your school breaks

1. Open Edit holiday settings. Choose your province, territory or Federal scope. Federal coverage applies to federally regulated employment; read the selected jurisdiction notes.
2. Enter the first and last dates of each school break. Both dates are included; use the dates from your school.
3. Choose halves, alternate years or set days. For halves and alternate years, choose who goes first in odd years; the other parent goes first in even years.
4. For set days, add parent date ranges covering every day of the break once, without gaps or overlaps.
5. Check the allocation summary, browse one week at a time and read the holiday coverage notes. Save, share, print or export both parents in one calendar file or either parent separately.

How it works

Breaks use inclusive calendar dates. A break from 18 December to 2 January includes both 18 December and 2 January. The planner counts calendar dates, not legal parenting-time percentages or overnight stays.

Halves gives the first parent half the dates, rounded up when the total is odd. The second parent receives the remaining dates. A one-day break therefore belongs to the first parent. With alternate years, the whole break belongs to the selected year's parent. The year in which the break starts decides odd or even ownership, including a break ending the following year.

Set days lets you enter specific first and last dates for each parent. Every date must be assigned once. Adjacent ranges for the same parent are combined in the output and calendar export. Breaks cannot overlap because that could assign a date twice.

Public holidays are reference markers, not changes to your allocation. Actual calendar dates, published observed dates, additional holidays and part-day holidays are labelled separately. Regional coverage and supported years are shown beside the result. Missing holiday data is identified explicitly; an unmarked date outside coverage does not mean there is no holiday.

School holidays are entered by you and are not inferred from public holidays. Official holiday data is stored with this site and does not update live. Check the source dates and your school's calendar before relying on a plan.

Calendar downloads contain all-day blocks for both parents or the chosen parent, with the end date set to the day after the last included date. No handover time is assumed. The planner does not replace an agreement, court order or legal advice, and does not merge these allocations into a repeating custody calendar.

Canadian lists cover 2027 and 2028 actual holiday dates within the selected employment-standards scope. Federal coverage is for federally regulated employment, not every workplace. Provincial and territorial lists differ; Boxing Day is not universal. School-board calendars and employer-specific closures are not supplied.

Canadian substitute days are not inferred because they can depend on schedules or agreements. Quebec's Good Friday and Easter Monday markers are alternatives and retain that condition; they are not a claim that both apply. An actual-date marker does not determine eligibility, pay or a day off.

Worked example

Canada: select Federal scope and enter an illustrative family-agreed Christmas break from 21 December 2027 to 3 January 2028. Choose halves and Parent A first in odd years. Confirm school-board dates separately:

• Parent A receives 21 to 27 December: seven calendar dates, including Christmas and Boxing Day in the federal list.
• Parent B receives 28 December to 3 January: seven calendar dates, including New Year's Day.
• Only actual holiday dates are marked for this scope; substitute days are not guessed. A provincial or territorial selection can show a different list without changing your entered allocation.

Common questions

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