Compare school calendars
Pick two to four schools. We intersect their closures and show the days every one of them is off — the windows a family with children at different schools can actually use — and the days they disagree, which is where the childcare problem actually lives.
Step 1 · Choose schools
Nothing selected yet — add two or more schools to see the shared days off.
Step 2 · Narrow the window (optional)
Both start empty, which means every published date. Fill either one in and everything below — the counts, the windows, the timeline and the conflicts — recalculates inside it.
Step 3 · Read the result
Windows when every school is off
Consecutive days on which all selected schools are closed. Two-day gaps or shorter are merged, because a weekend inside a break does not break it up.
Year at a glance
Every bar is a real break, drawn to the day, against a month scale. The dark row along the top is the windows where all of them are off at once — hover any bar for its exact dates.
Where they disagree
Days counted as a break by at least one school but not all of them. These are the days that make childcare complicated — one child is home while another is in class.
| School | Days off | Days the others are in school | Closure days published |
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Subscribe to these schools
A calendar feed containing every closure of the selected schools, plus a separate entry for each window where all of them are off at once. Add it once and it keeps up to date by itself.
The selection travels in the URL, so there is nothing stored on our side and nothing to sign up for. Removing a school simply means making a new link.
How the comparison works
The 349 school records behind this tool publish 3,372 closures between them, drawn from each school's own calendar. Nothing here is inferred.
- · A day counts as "off" only where a school has published a closure covering it. A blank in a school's calendar is treated as a school day, not a guess.
- · Staff training days count: the school is shut to students, which is what matters for childcare.
- · Exam windows are excluded. Students are in school during exams.
- · Weekends are counted only where a school's own calendar marks them closed — the tool never invents a day off.
- · Every school page links to its own source. Confirm before booking travel.
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