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24-hour duty rotation

24/48 Schedule Generator

A 24/48 rotation repeats one 24-hour duty period followed by two full days off. Suitability depends on the work, recovery expectations, staffing rules, and applicable policy.

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Use this whenPreview the repeating one-day-on, two-days-off duty cycle.

No signup is required. The interactive inputs and result stay on this page.

Interactive tool

Enter your scheduling assumptions

Change the inputs and the result updates immediately. Keep the assumptions realistic—the output is only as useful as the staffing model you give it.

Result

1 work/duty days in each 3-day cycle

56 average scheduled hours / week at 24-hour shifts
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Day 2OffCycle day 2
Day 3OffCycle day 3
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Day 5OffCycle day 2
Day 6OffCycle day 3
Day 7DutyCycle day 1
Day 8OffCycle day 2
Day 9OffCycle day 3
Day 10DutyCycle day 1
Day 11OffCycle day 2
Day 12OffCycle day 3
Day 13DutyCycle day 1
Day 14OffCycle day 2
Day 15OffCycle day 3
Day 16DutyCycle day 1
Day 17OffCycle day 2
Day 18OffCycle day 3
Day 19DutyCycle day 1
Day 20OffCycle day 2
Day 21OffCycle day 3
Day 22DutyCycle day 1
Day 23OffCycle day 2
Day 24OffCycle day 3
Day 25DutyCycle day 1
Day 26OffCycle day 2
Day 27OffCycle day 3
Day 28DutyCycle day 1

This calendar shows the stated repeating pattern. Team phase offsets, day/night handoffs, local policy, labor rules, and qualification requirements still need to be applied for an operational schedule.

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How it is calculated

Method

The generator repeats one 24-hour duty period followed by two full calendar days off.

Worked example

Example

One 24-hour duty period every three days averages 56 scheduled duty hours per seven calendar days.

Interpret the result

What the answer means

Treat the calendar as the repeating skeleton for one team. Multi-team operations still need crew offsets, day/night assignments, handoffs, qualifications, and coverage validation.

Important limit

What this tool does not prove

Extended-duty schedules require organization-specific safety, sleep, staffing, compensation, and legal review. This page only maps the repeating calendar pattern.

Use this tool to

Answer the planning question before assigning names

Generate a free 24/48 schedule preview with one 24-hour duty period followed by 48 hours off.

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Preview the repeating cycle across a multi-week calendar.

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Choose a start date so the pattern maps to real dates.

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Use the staffing calculators to confirm the rotation can support your required daily coverage.

The next layer

Capacity math cannot see every person-level scheduling constraint

A staffing model can be mathematically feasible and still fail when only certain people are qualified for a role, approved absences remove key people, assignments overlap, rest windows are too short, or coverage changes on specific dates. Those are the checks RoleSchedule keeps attached to the schedule itself.

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Keep the roster, assignment rules, weekly planning, coverage review, and published schedule connected instead of rebuilding context across several files.

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