# DayOfWeek

> [Thing](https://schema.org.ai/Thing) > [Intangible](https://schema.org.ai/Intangible) > [Enumeration](https://schema.org.ai/Enumeration) > [DayOfWeek](https://schema.org.ai/DayOfWeek)

The day of the week, e.g. used to specify to which day the opening hours of an OpeningHoursSpecification refer.

Originally, URLs from [GoodRelations](http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1) were used (for [Monday](https://schema.org.ai/Monday), [Tuesday](https://schema.org.ai/Tuesday), [Wednesday](https://schema.org.ai/Wednesday), [Thursday](https://schema.org.ai/Thursday), [Friday](https://schema.org.ai/Friday), [Saturday](https://schema.org.ai/Saturday), [Sunday](https://schema.org.ai/Sunday) plus a special entry for [PublicHolidays](https://schema.org.ai/PublicHolidays)); these have now been integrated directly into schema.org.

**Extends:** [Enumeration](https://schema.org.ai/Enumeration)

## [Enumeration](https://schema.org.ai/Enumeration) Properties

| Property | Expected Type | Description |
|----------|---------------|-------------|
| [supersededBy](https://schema.org.ai/supersededBy) | [Class](https://schema.org.ai/Class), [Enumeration](https://schema.org.ai/Enumeration), [Property](https://schema.org.ai/Property) | Relates a term (i.e. a property, class or enumeration) to one that supersedes it. |

## [Thing](https://schema.org.ai/Thing) Properties

| Property | Expected Type | Description |
|----------|---------------|-------------|
| [additionalType](https://schema.org.ai/additionalType) | [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text), [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org [style guide](https://schema.org/docs/styleguide.html). |
| [alternateName](https://schema.org.ai/alternateName) | [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | An alias for the item. |
| [description](https://schema.org.ai/description) | [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text), [TextObject](https://schema.org.ai/TextObject) | A description of the item. |
| [digital](https://schema.org.ai/digital) | [Number](https://schema.org.ai/Number) | Digital maturity score from 0.0 (fully analog/manual) to 1.0 (fully digital/autonomous). Indicates the degree to which an entity operates digitally. |
| [disambiguatingDescription](https://schema.org.ai/disambiguatingDescription) | [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. |
| [identifier](https://schema.org.ai/identifier) | [PropertyValue](https://schema.org.ai/PropertyValue), [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text), [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of [Thing](https://schema.org.ai/Thing), such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See [background notes](https://schema.org/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg) for more details. |
| [image](https://schema.org.ai/image) | [ImageObject](https://schema.org.ai/ImageObject), [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | An image of the item. This can be a [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) or a fully described [ImageObject](https://schema.org.ai/ImageObject). |
| [mainEntityOfPage](https://schema.org.ai/mainEntityOfPage) | [CreativeWork](https://schema.org.ai/CreativeWork), [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See [background notes](https://schema.org/docs/datamodel.html#mainEntityBackground) for details. |
| [name](https://schema.org.ai/name) | [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | The name of the item. |
| [owner](https://schema.org.ai/owner) | [Organization](https://schema.org.ai/Organization), [Person](https://schema.org.ai/Person) | A person or organization who owns this Thing. |
| [potentialAction](https://schema.org.ai/potentialAction) | [Action](https://schema.org.ai/Action) | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
| [sameAs](https://schema.org.ai/sameAs) | [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
| [subjectOf](https://schema.org.ai/subjectOf) | [CreativeWork](https://schema.org.ai/CreativeWork), [Event](https://schema.org.ai/Event) | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. |
| [url](https://schema.org.ai/url) | [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | URL of the item. |

## Values

| Value | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| [Friday](https://schema.org.ai/Friday) | The day of the week between Thursday and Saturday. |
| [Monday](https://schema.org.ai/Monday) | The day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. |
| [PublicHolidays](https://schema.org.ai/PublicHolidays) | This stands for any day that is a public holiday; it is a placeholder for all official public holidays in some particular location. While not technically a "day of the week", it can be used with [OpeningHoursSpecification](https://schema.org.ai/OpeningHoursSpecification). In the context of an opening hours specification it can be used to indicate opening hours on public holidays, overriding general opening hours for the day of the week on which a public holiday occurs. |
| [Saturday](https://schema.org.ai/Saturday) | The day of the week between Friday and Sunday. |
| [Sunday](https://schema.org.ai/Sunday) | The day of the week between Saturday and Monday. |
| [Thursday](https://schema.org.ai/Thursday) | The day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. |
| [Tuesday](https://schema.org.ai/Tuesday) | The day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. |
| [Wednesday](https://schema.org.ai/Wednesday) | The day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. |

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Quoted from Schema.org 30.1, https://schema.org/DayOfWeek, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Served by the Org.AI Foundation at https://schema.org.ai/DayOfWeek.
