Rota templates with the dates filled in
Most shift pattern pages, including ours, draw a cycle and leave you to count it onto a calendar. These are the counting already done: a year of dated shifts for a specific pattern at a specific headcount, checked so that no date in the grid leaves a shift unstaffed.
Take each one as a spreadsheet, or point a team at its own calendar feed so the shifts land in their phones. Every number on these pages is computed from the pattern rather than typed in, so the page, the file and the calendar always agree.
4-on-4-off, 8 people
A dated 368-day 4-on-4-off grid: 8 people, four teams of two, 12-hour shifts. Team A and Team C get 20 full weekends off, Team B and Team D 19.
- Hours a week
- 42
- Cycle
- 16 days
- Dated days
- 368
2-2-3 Panama, 12 people
Four teams of 3 on 12-hour shifts, 6 on duty at every hour, 42 hours a week. The full 364-day grid, dated and split by team.
- Hours a week
- 42
- Cycle
- 28 days
- Dated days
- 364
DuPont, 16 people
A dated 364-day DuPont grid for 16 people in 4 teams of 4. Every date shows 8 on duty, 4 on days and 4 on nights, plus each team's 7-day break.
- Hours a week
- 42
- Cycle
- 28 days
- Dated days
- 364
Pitman, 8 people
A dated 364-day Pitman grid for 8 people in 4 teams of 2: two teams on days, two on nights, 12-hour shifts, blocks of 2 and 3 days.
- Hours a week
- 42
- Cycle
- 14 days
- Dated days
- 364
Continental, 20 people
A dated 364-day continental grid: 4 teams of 5 on 8-hour mornings, afternoons and nights, 15 of 20 on duty daily, 13 full weekends off each.
- Hours a week
- 42
- Cycle
- 28 days
- Dated days
- 364
Kelly, 9 firefighters
The dated 369-day grid for 9 firefighters in 3 platoons: 24-hour shifts, 3 on duty every hour, 56 hours a week, 17 or 18 full weekends off.
- Hours a week
- 56
- Cycle
- 9 days
- Dated days
- 369
7-on-7-off, 8 nurses
Four teams of two on 12-hour shifts, two of them permanently on nights. A dated 364-day grid showing which pair holds each week and each night.
- Hours a week
- 42
- Cycle
- 14 days
- Dated days
- 364
Southern swing, 12 people
A dated 364-day Southern Swing grid for 4 teams of 3: week-long blocks of mornings, afternoons and nights, 9 of the 12 working every day.
- Hours a week
- 42
- Cycle
- 28 days
- Dated days
- 364
DDNNOO, 6 people
A dated DDNNOO grid for 6 people in 3 teams of 2: 4 on duty on every date across 366 days, 56 hours each, and 8 or 9 full weekends off.
- Hours a week
- 56
- Cycle
- 6 days
- Dated days
- 366
4-on-3-off, 8 people
Dated 364-day grid for two squads of four on 10-hour days, 07:00 to 17:00. Most days run on 4 people, one on all 8, and only Squad A gets weekends.
- Hours a week
- 40
- Cycle
- 7 days
- Dated days
- 364
Picking one
If you already know the pattern and only need the dates, take the matching template above. If you are still deciding, the shift pattern library explains how each rotation behaves and what it does to sleep, and the staffing math library works out how many people a coverage window needs before a pattern is worth choosing.
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