Check five full weekend pairs
October begins on Friday and finishes on Sunday. That creates five Friday-through-Sunday groups, useful when distributing weekend commitments across the month. Columbus Day is observed on Monday, October 11 in the federal schedule. Other calendars may use a different holiday name or may not close; this sheet preserves OPM's naming and does not infer local policy. Enter confirmed community events and personal occasions yourself. If you are planning an activity near the final weekend, keep preparation on earlier dates rather than crowding the same square. Compare Friday obligations across all five weeks before assuming there is a free weekend. The next month begins on Monday, so the calendar boundary is especially clear.
Choose your paper and print
Download Letter for 8.5 by 11 inch paper, or A4 for 210 by 297 millimetres. Both files contain the same dates in a layout sized for that paper. Open the PDF, select landscape, and preview one page before printing. Use actual size when the preview fits your printer margins; choose fit to printable area if an edge would be clipped. The calendar begins on Monday. Empty leading and trailing squares are intentional, with room for handwritten notes.
When plans change
The free PDF is a fixed calendar for writing by hand. For editable events, the 2027 Planner Pack includes an XLSX month view: enter a date and title in Events, select the month, and the entry appears on that day. It shows the first three entries per day and flags additional entries. Custom anniversaries use their 2027 date. Weekly planning and milestone review PDFs support the follow-up work.