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48/96 shift calendar 2028
48/96 stacks two 24 hour shifts back to back, then pays out 96 hours off. The cycle is 6 days long, and three platoons staggered two days apart keep one on duty every calendar day. Departments switch to it to halve the commutes: one trip to the station per cycle instead of two.
This page lays the cycle onto the real dates of 2028 for a platoon whose first shift falls on January 1: every 48, every 96, and every weekend that lands wholly inside one.
Suits crews who want four clear days after two tours. Forty eight hours straight at the station is a lot to ask of anyone who does not sleep well there.
Quick facts
- Cycle length
- 6 days
- Shifts per cycle
- 2 on, 4 off
- Shift length
- 24 hours
- Hours a week
- 56.1 on average
- Crews for 24/7 cover
- 3
- Full weekends off in 2028
- 18
48/96 (24h), 2028
The grid shows a crew whose cycle starts January 1, 2028; other crews run the same rotation offset by a few days. The 6 day cycle does not divide evenly into weeks, so the rotation drifts through the weekdays. Other crews get a similar year, just shifted. To line the pattern up with your real start date, use the interactive shift pattern visualizer.
The 2028 numbers
Full weekends off
18
Jan 1 crew; all crews: 17.7 on average (17 to 18)
24 hour shifts
122
each runs 7am to 7am the next day
Recovery days
61
the morning after each shift
Longest stretch
2
consecutive shifts
How many hours is 48/96 in 2028?
Worked in full, 48/96 in 2028 comes to 122 shifts of 24 hours: 2,928 hours, an average of 56.1 hours a week across the whole year. Every one of those shifts runs from one morning to the next, so each covers two calendar days. These figures assume every scheduled shift is worked: no overtime, no swaps, no sick days, no leave.
Put 48/96 2028 in your calendar
One file, every shift of the year, ready for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Every shift imports as a 24 hour event, 7am to 7am the next morning. Edit the times after import if your department changes over at a different hour.
That file is the textbook rotation. Your real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts that no pattern predicts, so photograph it with Lumical and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make Lumical, so read this with that in mind.
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A perfect rotation fits in a calendar file. A real roster does not.
Swaps, overtime, and holiday cover break the pattern. Reading a real roster is what the Lumical app does: photograph it and every shift lands in your calendar, overnights included. We make it, so weigh the recommendation accordingly.
Common questions
What is the 48/96 shift schedule?
A 6 day fire service cycle: two 24 hour shifts in a row, then four days off. Same annual hours as 24/48, cut into bigger pieces: half the station trips, a longer break, and a 48 hour stretch away from home as the price.
How many hours is 48/96 in 2028?
2,928 hours for the January 1 platoon: 122 shifts of 24 hours worked back to back in pairs, averaging 56.1 a week. The cycle itself averages 56 hours a week (48 hours per 6 days).
How many full weekends does 48/96 give?
The 6 day cycle realigns with the week every 42 days, and in each stretch exactly two of the six weekends land wholly inside a 96. In 2028 that comes to 18 full weekends for the January 1 platoon, and between 17 and 18 depending on where a platoon sits in the rotation.
Why is only one day of the 96 a recovery day?
The 96 opens the morning you walk out of the second 24, so its first day is a recovery day and the other three are fully yours. In 2028 that makes 61 recovery days and 183 full days off, half the year. How rested the break starts depends on the second night at the station.
Is the 48 counted as one shift or two?
This page counts it as two 24 hour shifts back to back: two events in the calendar file, each running one morning to the next, with the handover between them. The longest stretch tile reads 2 for the same reason.
How many days will you work on 48/96 in 2028?
122 shifts, which comes to 2,928 hours at 24 hours each. That leaves 244 days off. The count moves by a shift or two depending on where your crew sits in the cycle on January 1.
How many crews does 48/96 need to cover 24 hours a day?
3. The cycle runs 6 days with 2 of them worked, so keeping one position filled every day takes 3 crews, and a 24 hours shift needs 1 positions to fill the day.
How do I get this calendar into Apple Calendar?
Download the .ics file on this page and open it on your iPhone or Mac. Apple Calendar offers to add the whole year in one go. That covers the textbook rotation. A real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts, and for that we make Lumical: photograph the roster and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make it, so read that with the obvious bias in mind.
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- Interactive shift pattern visualizer: any pattern, any year, any start date
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