Laundry rota template 2026: Excel/PDF with canton holidays

Laundry rota template: week, month and flatshare, worked out fairly

Eight flats, six washing days, two slots a day: that's twelve slots, and twelve doesn't divide by eight. Four flats wash twice this week, four only once. That's why the weekly rota here has a week A and a week B. By ConvivaPlus's count, every flat then washes exactly three times in 2 weeks.

Three templates, each as Excel to adapt and PDF to print: the weekly rota with fixed turns for an apartment building, the monthly sign-up sheet with 31 days and three slots, and the flatshare rota in which each person washes once every six weeks. In the monthly sheet you fill in the weekdays yourself. The ready-made calendar with your canton's holidays is just below.

LAUNDRY ROTA – 8 FLATS, TWO WEEKS
Building: ________________________________
Weeks A and B alternate, so every flat washes exactly three times in two weeks: one week has twelve slots, and eight flats don't divide into them evenly.

Week A · Time · Flat · Signature
Monday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 1: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 2: ____________ · 
Tuesday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 3: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 4: ____________ · 
Wednesday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 5: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 6: ____________ · 
Thursday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 7: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 8: ____________ · 
Friday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 1: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 2: ____________ · 
Saturday · 09:00–13:00 · Flat 3: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–17:00 · Flat 4: ____________ · 

Week B · Time · Flat · Signature
Monday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 5: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 6: ____________ · 
Tuesday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 7: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 8: ____________ · 
Wednesday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 1: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 2: ____________ · 
Thursday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 3: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 4: ____________ · 
Friday · 07:00–12:00 · Flat 5: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–18:00 · Flat 6: ____________ · 
Saturday · 09:00–13:00 · Flat 7: ____________ · 
 · 13:00–17:00 · Flat 8: ____________ · 

RULES
☐ Wipe the machine after use, leave the door open
☐ Empty the dryer's lint filter
☐ Collect your laundry on time
☐ Swap only by noting it on the rota

Caretaker: _________________ Phone: _________________

Laundry rota 2026 with your canton's public holidays

In Geneva 31 December is a public holiday, in Glarus a Thursday in April, in Schwyz and Valais St Joseph's Day. A rota made for the whole of Switzerland knows none of this. The ConvivaPlus Laundry Rota Generator takes the statutory holidays from SECO's list and works them out again every year, including the ones that move with Easter.

Pick the canton and month, set the number of flats and slots per day, and the rota hands out the slots in turn. If a holiday falls on a weekday it stays free, and the rotation carries on with the next washing day. For the whole year, download your canton's file: twelve monthly sheets, with a list of all the holidays at the front.

Holidays by canton: only 4 apply everywhere

New Year's Day, Ascension Day, Swiss National Day and Christmas Day: only these 4 days count as Sundays in all 26 cantons. Good Friday already falls short: in 2 cantons (Ticino and Valais) it isn't a statutory holiday. Only 7 cantons have 1 May off, Solothurn just the afternoon, and only 2 St Joseph's Day.

The reason is in the Labour Act. The Confederation sets only 1 August; everything else is up to the cantons, eight days a year at most, and they may set them differently in different parts of the canton. In Aargau the list therefore changes by district, in Fribourg by whether a municipality is mostly Catholic or Protestant. The table shows every holiday with the cantons where it applies.

Laundry rota 2027: two holidays fall on a Sunday

In 2027 Zurich gains two washing days. 1 August and St Stephen's Day fall on a Sunday, so only 7 holidays instead of 9 cost a washing day. In 25 of 26 cantons, fewer holidays fall on Monday to Saturday in 2027 than in 2026.

The 2027 rotas are ready for all 26 cantons, with the same columns as 2026. Easter falls on 28 March 2027, so Good Friday, Ascension and Whit Monday move forward by about a week. In the generator, just pick a month in 2027.

A fair laundry rota: with 7 flats it takes 7 weeks

Seven flats and twelve slots a week: each has had the same number of turns only after 7 weeks. With eight flats it takes 2, with six every week works out. It's simple arithmetic: only once the number of slots divides by the number of flats does each get the same. In a single week with eight flats, each washes 1 or 2 times.

A fair rota therefore carries the rotation on past the end of the month instead of starting again at flat 1. Otherwise flat 1 always goes first and by the end of the year has washed noticeably more often than the last. In the generator you choose who starts the new month.

Laundry rota in an apartment building: fixed turns or sign-up?

2027 has 104 Saturday slots, with two slots each Saturday. With a fixed rota and eight flats, each gets 13; with open sign-up and no limit, a single flat can take them all. Fixed days suit buildings where everyone washes about the same amount. Sign-up suits buildings where the laundry differs, a family next to a single person, say. Which system applies is set by the house rules.

With fixed turns each flat has its slots, and swaps are noted on the rota. With sign-up, whoever writes their name in first gets the slot. So no one books every Saturday, a limit on the sheet helps, one Saturday a month per flat, for instance.

Flatshare laundry rota: one week per person

In a flatshare of six, your turn comes round only 8 or 9 times a year, but it is everyone's laundry. Not everyone washes every week: either one person does the shared laundry once every six weeks, or everyone does their own on a fixed day. The flatshare rota here does the first: one person a week, with a box to tick and a detergent kitty.

If you share the laundry room with the whole building, the building's rota applies. You then split your slots among yourselves, in the generator simply with the number of people instead of flats.

Printable laundry rota: A4 on the laundry room door

13 sheets for the whole year, and on none of them do you cross out a public holiday yourself: in the Zurich rota for 2026, 9 laundry days are already marked as holidays. A rota that isn't pinned up isn't kept. Print the month on A4 and hang it inside the laundry room door, with a pencil on a string. A pencil, because people swap.

The PDFs are ready to print, the Excel files ready to adapt: names instead of flat numbers, different times, columns removed. In your canton's yearly rota you print each month separately; every sheet fits on one page.

Laundry room rules: the house rules decide who washes when

No federal law bans washing on Sundays. The house rules decide, if they form part of your lease, and cantonal or municipal noise rules can restrict noisy work on Sundays. Either way, as a tenant you have to show consideration for the other residents. That's why the rota only says "as the house rules say" next to Sundays. The holiday list also comes from employment law: as a grid for laundry days it's a sensible guide, but your house rules are what count.

What laundry room rules may and may not require is set out in the laundry room rules template (in German). For the house rules as a whole there's the house rules template. And if the machine stays broken for a long time, that can be a defect in the rented property: how to report it and when the rent goes down is under rent reduction for defects.

What all 26 cantons say about Sundays, in their own wording, with the Sunday Rest Compass: Laundry on Sunday in Switzerland.