Summer vacation custody schedule for two homes
How co-parents share Summer vacation: the common arrangements, and who has it when you alternate by odd and even years.
Common ways to share it
- Keep the regular schedule all summer
- Two weeks of vacation time each, with notice by a date in spring
- Alternate weeks all summer, even if the school year is different
- Most of the summer at one home when the school year is mostly at the other
When it is
- Summer vacation: the school summer break (dates vary by school).
- Alternating by odd and even years: Home A in even years, Home B in odd years.
Nights a year with summer vacation weeks
| Regular schedule | Home A / B | Two weeks each way | Four weeks to Home B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alternating weeks | 183 / 182 | 183 / 182 | 169 / 196 |
| 2-2-3 | 183 / 182 | 183 / 182 | 169 / 196 |
| Every other weekend | 287 / 78 | 279 / 86 | 265 / 100 |
| 5-2 | 261 / 104 | 255 / 110 | 241 / 124 |
Computed with the same arithmetic as our parenting-time calculator.
In TaskFamily, Summer vacation becomes an exception that overrides the usual two-homes schedule for those days, so both homes and the children see where they will be. Swap requests need the other parent's approval and go into the record.
Free for one household. The Co-parent plan covers both homes for $19 a month - $9.50 each when two parents split it.
Keep reading
- Thanksgiving schedule
- Christmas schedule
- New Year's Eve and Day schedule
- Winter break schedule
- Easter schedule
- Spring break schedule
- Mother's Day schedule
- Father's Day schedule
- Memorial Day weekend schedule
- Fourth of July schedule
- Labor Day weekend schedule
- Halloween schedule
- Children's birthdays schedule
- Custody schedules compared
- Parenting plan builder
Dates are computed from the holiday rules (US federal holiday rules, the Western Easter date, fixed dates). This is general information, not legal advice: your parenting plan or court order decides. The guide text is drafted with AI from these numbers and checked automatically before it is published.