Google Calendar
How to Hide Weekends in Google Calendar
Google Calendar's Week and Month views show all seven days by default. One checkbox in Settings hides Saturday and Sunday and gives you a Monday-to-Friday grid. Your weekend events are not deleted — they just stop taking up space.
Step-by-step
- Open calendar.google.com in a desktop browser.
- Click the gear icon (top right) → Settings.
- In the left column, under General, click View options.
- Untick Show weekends. The change saves itself; there is no Save button.
- Click the back arrow to return to your calendar. Week view now shows Monday to Friday; Month view drops the Saturday and Sunday columns as well.
Make the week start on Monday too
Hiding weekends is most useful when the week actually starts on Monday. On the same View options page, set Start week on to Monday. Otherwise Google keeps the US default of Sunday, and a five-day view that "starts" on a hidden Sunday looks odd in Month view. Both settings sync to every browser you sign in to.
"5 days" custom view vs. hiding weekends
The Set custom view dropdown next to it offers 2 to 7 days and 2 to 4 weeks. Choosing 5 days is not the same thing: it shows a rolling five-day window starting from the day you selected, so on a Thursday you see Thursday through Monday, weekend included. Use Show weekends off for a fixed Monday-to-Friday week, and the custom view only when you want a rolling window.
On Android and iPhone
The Google Calendar mobile apps have no Show weekends switch, and the web setting does not carry over to them. Two workarounds:
- Use the 3-day or Day view for a weekday focus; the Schedule view lists events without showing empty weekend days at all.
- If you need a true Monday-to-Friday grid on your phone, open calendar.google.com in the mobile browser and request the desktop site; the web setting applies there.
The Android and iOS apps do offer Start of the week under Settings → General, so at least the week can start on Monday.
Are my weekend events gone?
No. Hiding weekends is purely a display setting. Events on Saturday and Sunday still exist, still send notifications and still show up in Day view, in Schedule view, in search and on your phone. To look at a specific weekend, click the date in the mini calendar on the left, or switch to Day view and step to Saturday.
The setting is also personal: people you share a calendar with, or who subscribe to it, each control their own view. You cannot hide weekends for someone else.
Related: working hours and Focus time
If the goal is to protect your time rather than to tidy the view, Settings → Working hours & location lets you mark the hours you are available; meeting invitations outside them show a warning to the organiser. Pair it with blocked time or Focus time for the days you do work. Neither replaces the Show weekends checkbox, but together they keep Saturday and Sunday out of sight and out of your colleagues' scheduling assistant.
The same setting in Outlook and Apple Calendar
- Outlook — switch the calendar to Work week view (the toolbar button next to Week). In new Outlook and Outlook on the web, Settings → Calendar → View lets you choose which days count as your work week.
- Apple Calendar (Mac) — Calendar → Settings → General → Days per week: 5. On iPhone there is no equivalent; the List view is the closest.