Where the working week starts and the weekend falls, by market
Anything scheduled weekly lands on the wrong days when the week is assumed rather than read.
61 markets · verified September 9, 2026 · Unicode Consortium
43 of 61 markets give the same answer: the week starts on Sunday. The next most common, in 13: the weekend is Friday–Saturday. 6 distinct answers across the table, and the ones that depart from the common case are the ones worth planning around.
Where this comes from
Every row links to its own entry, which carries the evidence, the confidence and the date it was last checked. The method behind all of it is on how the index is made, and reuse terms are on the licence page. Take the table: surface-working-week.csv — every row with its market code, its record and the source, so it can be checked after it has been pasted somewhere else.
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