# Setting your availability

Your [**availability schedule**](/360/availability?tab=schedules) is the foundation
of every booking page: it's the set of hours you're willing to take meetings. 42min
starts from your schedule, subtracts your calendar's busy events and your buffers, and
shows what's left.

## What it is

A named schedule with:

- **Weekly hours** — for each day of the week, the time ranges you're available
  (e.g. Mon–Fri, 9:00–17:00). A day with no ranges is treated as unavailable.
- **A time zone** — the schedule is defined in *your* time zone. Invitees still see
  slots in their own zone.
- **Date overrides** — one-off exceptions for specific dates (e.g. "only 9:00–12:00
  on March 14", or "unavailable on December 24").
- **Holidays** — optionally pull in a country's public holidays and block them.

You can keep more than one schedule (say, "Sales hours" and "Interview hours") and
point different event types at different schedules.

## When to use it

- The first thing to set up after connecting your calendar.
- Make a second schedule whenever a category of meeting needs different hours than
  your default — for example, after-hours demo slots, or interview windows that only
  run in the mornings.

## How to do it

1. Open [**Availability**](/360/availability?tab=schedules) in the dashboard.
2. Edit your default schedule (or create a new one): set the time zone, then add the
   hours for each weekday. Leave weekends empty if you don't take meetings then.
3. Add [**date overrides**](/help/schedules-availability/weekly-hours-and-overrides) for
   known exceptions — a half-day, a conference, a day off.
4. Optionally enable [**holidays**](/help/schedules-availability/holidays-and-time-zones)
   for your country so public holidays are blocked automatically.
5. When you [create an event type](/360/events?new=1), choose which schedule it uses
   (it uses your default unless you pick another).

For the deep dive — multiple schedules, date overrides, holidays, time zones, and
account-wide meeting caps — see [Schedules & availability](/help/schedules-availability/schedules).

<Screenshot
  src="/help/screenshots/getting-started/availability.png"
  alt="The Availability page in the 42min dashboard, with the Schedules / Holidays / Meeting Limits / Calendar tabs and a weekly schedule"
  caption="The tabs across the top: Schedules (weekly hours + date overrides), Holidays, Meeting Limits, and Calendar (connect Google/Microsoft)."
/>

## Common pitfalls

- **Booking page shows no slots.** Usual causes: the schedule attached to that event
  type has no hours for the upcoming days, your
  [minimum notice or date range](/help/event-types/duration-buffers-and-limits) rules
  out the near term, or your calendar is fully booked.
- **Wrong time zone.** Slots are computed in the schedule's time zone. If yours is set
  wrong, every slot is off — fix it on the schedule (and check your
  [profile time zone](/360/profile) too).
- **Forgot the override.** Weekly hours don't know about your trip next week — add a
  date override (or mark the days unavailable) so you don't get booked while away.