UC Davis Dorm Packing List 2026

Read before you pack

• ⚠Residents may not reconfigure their own beds. Frames have three standard heights, and Student Housing will bunk or loft a bed only by Service Request, which must be submitted within the first two weeks of every quarter -- triple rooms are prioritized, supplies are limited, and not all requests are honored.
• ⚠Air conditioning is not uniform. Segundo and Tercero rooms have their own thermostat but are attached to the campus centralized plant, which runs heating or cooling but never both -- cooling comes on only when daytime highs consistently exceed 82F. Only Cuarto halls (Shasta, Tahoe, Yosemite) have independent systems with full year-round control of both modes.
• ⚠Overnight guests are capped at seven cumulative nights per academic quarter and are barred entirely during final exams; hosting requires roommate permission, and the host is responsible for the guest's conduct.
• ⚠Moove-In is appointment-only through the myHousing Portal; arriving after 6 PM means checking in at the Area Service Desk instead of your area's scheduled check-in station.
• ⚠Tampering with fire protection devices -- smoke detectors, sprinklers and sprinkler pipes, extinguishers, exit signs, alarm pull stations -- is a named policy violation, as is blocking hallways, doorways or stairwells with bicycles, scooters or trash.
• ⚠UC Davis housing pages still carry a stale 'Move-In Weekend is Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22' line left over from a prior year -- the real 2026 date is September 15-17 per the year-scoped housing calendar; ignore the Sept 21-22 figure if you see it.