# OpeningHoursSpecification - Schema.org Type

> Source: https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T18:51:55.266Z

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A structured value providing information about the opening hours of a place or a certain service inside a place.

The place is **open** if the [opens](https://schema.org/opens) property is specified, and **closed** otherwise.

If the value for the [closes](https://schema.org/closes) property is less than the value for the [opens](https://schema.org/opens) property then the hour range is assumed to span over the next day.

Property

Expected Type

Description

Properties from [OpeningHoursSpecification](https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification "OpeningHoursSpecification")

`[closes](https://schema.org/closes "closes")`

[Time](https://schema.org/Time "Time")

The closing hour of the place or service on the given day(s) of the week.

`[dayOfWeek](https://schema.org/dayOfWeek "dayOfWeek")`

[DayOfWeek](https://schema.org/DayOfWeek "DayOfWeek")

The day of the week for which these opening hours are valid.

`[opens](https://schema.org/opens "opens")`

[Time](https://schema.org/Time "Time")

The opening hour of the place or service on the given day(s) of the week.

`[validFrom](https://schema.org/validFrom "validFrom")`

[Date](https://schema.org/Date "Date")  or  
[DateTime](https://schema.org/DateTime "DateTime")

The date when the item becomes valid.

`[validThrough](https://schema.org/validThrough "validThrough")`

[Date](https://schema.org/Date "Date")  or  
[DateTime](https://schema.org/DateTime "DateTime")

The date after when the item is not valid. For example the end of an offer, salary period, or a period of opening hours.

Properties from [Thing](https://schema.org/Thing "Thing")

`[additionalType](https://schema.org/additionalType "additionalType")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "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/alternateName "alternateName")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")

An alias for the item.

`[description](https://schema.org/description "description")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")  or  
[TextObject](https://schema.org/TextObject "TextObject")

A description of the item.

`[disambiguatingDescription](https://schema.org/disambiguatingDescription "disambiguatingDescription")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "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/identifier "identifier")`

[PropertyValue](https://schema.org/PropertyValue "PropertyValue")  or  
[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of [Thing](https://schema.org/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/image "image")`

[ImageObject](https://schema.org/ImageObject "ImageObject")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

An image of the item. This can be a [URL](https://schema.org/URL) or a fully described [ImageObject](https://schema.org/ImageObject).

`[mainEntityOfPage](https://schema.org/mainEntityOfPage "mainEntityOfPage")`

[CreativeWork](https://schema.org/CreativeWork "CreativeWork")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "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.  
Inverse property: [mainEntity](https://schema.org/mainEntity "mainEntity")

`[name](https://schema.org/name "name")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")

The name of the item.

`[owner](https://schema.org/owner "owner")`

[Organization](https://schema.org/Organization "Organization")  or  
[Person](https://schema.org/Person "Person")

A person or organization who owns this Thing.  
Inverse property: [owns](https://schema.org/owns "owns")

`[potentialAction](https://schema.org/potentialAction "potentialAction")`

[Action](https://schema.org/Action "Action")

Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.

`[sameAs](https://schema.org/sameAs "sameAs")`

[URL](https://schema.org/URL "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/subjectOf "subjectOf")`

[CreativeWork](https://schema.org/CreativeWork "CreativeWork")  or  
[Event](https://schema.org/Event "Event")

A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.  
Inverse property: [about](https://schema.org/about "about")

`[url](https://schema.org/url "url")`

[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

URL of the item.

  

Property

On Types

Description

[businessDays](https://schema.org/businessDays "businessDays")

[ServicePeriod](https://schema.org/ServicePeriod "ServicePeriod")  or  
[ShippingDeliveryTime](https://schema.org/ShippingDeliveryTime "ShippingDeliveryTime")

Days of the week when the merchant typically operates, indicated via opening hours markup.

[hoursAvailable](https://schema.org/hoursAvailable "hoursAvailable")

[ContactPoint](https://schema.org/ContactPoint "ContactPoint")  or  
[LocationFeatureSpecification](https://schema.org/LocationFeatureSpecification "LocationFeatureSpecification")  or  
[Service](https://schema.org/Service "Service")

The hours during which this service or contact is available.

[openingHoursSpecification](https://schema.org/openingHoursSpecification "openingHoursSpecification")

[Place](https://schema.org/Place "Place")

The opening hours of a certain place.

[seasonalOverride](https://schema.org/seasonalOverride "seasonalOverride")

[ShippingConditions](https://schema.org/ShippingConditions "ShippingConditions")

Limited period during which these shipping conditions apply.

[specialOpeningHoursSpecification](https://schema.org/specialOpeningHoursSpecification "specialOpeningHoursSpecification")

[Place](https://schema.org/Place "Place")

The special opening hours of a certain place.

Use this to explicitly override general opening hours brought in scope by [openingHoursSpecification](https://schema.org/openingHoursSpecification) or [openingHours](https://schema.org/openingHours).

### Examples

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

<div>
  <h1>Middle of Nowhere Foods</h1>
  <h2>Opening hours</h2>
  <p>Normally open daily <time datetime="09:00:00">9am</time>-<time datetime="14:00:00">2pm</time> except on:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>
      <time datetime="2013-12-24">24 December 2013</time> and
      <time datetime="2013-12-25">25 December 2013</time>:
      <time datetime="09:00:00">9am</time>-<time datetime="11:00:00">11am</time>
    </li>
    <li>
      <time datetime="2014-01-01">1st January 2014</time>:
      <time datetime="12:00:00">Noon</time>-<time datetime="14:00:00">2pm</time>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Example encoded as [Microdata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_\(HTML\)) embedded in HTML.

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Store">
  <h1 itemprop="name">Middle of Nowhere Foods</h1>
  <h2>Opening hours</h2>
    <meta itemprop="openingHours" content="Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su 09:00-14:00">
    <p>Normally open daily <time datetime="09:00:00">9am</time>-<time datetime="14:00:00">2pm</time> except on:</p>
  <ul>
    <li itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
      <time itemprop="validFrom" datetime="2013-12-24">24 December 2013</time> and
      <time itemprop="validThrough" datetime="2013-12-25">25 December 2013</time>:
      <time itemprop="opens" datetime="09:00:00">9am</time>-<time itemprop="closes" datetime="11:00:00">11am</time>
    </li>
    <li itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
      <time itemprop="validFrom validThrough" datetime="2014-01-01">1st January 2014</time>:
      <time itemprop="opens" datetime="12:00:00">Noon</time>-<time itemprop="closes" datetime="14:00:00">2pm</time>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Example encoded as [RDFa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa) embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Store">
  <h1 property="name">Middle of Nowhere Foods</h1>
  <h2>Opening hours</h2>
  <meta property="openingHours" content="Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su 09:00-14:00">
  <p>Normally open daily <time datetime="09:00:00">9am</time>-<time datetime="14:00:00">2pm</time> except on:</p>
  <ul>
    <li property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
      <time property="validFrom" datetime="2013-12-24">24 December 2013</time> and
      <time property="validThrough" datetime="2013-12-25">25 December 2013</time>:
      <time property="opens" datetime="09:00:00">9am</time>-<time property="closes" datetime="11:00:00">11am</time>
    </li>
    <li property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
      <time property="validFrom validThrough" datetime="2014-01-01">1st January 2014</time>:
      <time property="opens" datetime="12:00:00">Noon</time>-<time property="closes" datetime="14:00:00">2pm</time>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Example encoded as [JSON-LD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD) in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Store",
  "name": "Middle of Nowhere Foods",
  "openingHours": "Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su 09:00-14:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification":
  \[
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "validFrom": "2013-12-24",
      "validThrough": "2013-12-25",
      "opens": "09:00:00",
      "closes": "11:00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "validFrom": "2014-01-01",
      "validThrough": "2014-01-01",
      "opens": "12:00:00",
      "closes": "14:00:00"
    }
  \]
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

<div>
<h1>Music Resource Centre</h1>
<h2>Opening hours</h2>

<div>Monday: <time> 9:00 AM</time> - <time> 5:00 PM</time></div>

<div>Tuesday: <time> 9:00 AM</time> - <time> 5:00 PM</time></div>

<div>Wednesday: <time> 9:00 AM</time> - <time> 5:00 PM</time></div>

<div>Thursday: <time> 9:00 AM</time> - <time> 5:00 PM</time></div>

<div>Friday: <time> 9:00 AM</time> - <time> 5:00 PM</time></div>

<div>Saturday: <time> 9:00 AM</time> - <time> 5:00 PM</time></div>

<div>Sunday: <time> 9:00 AM</time> - <time> 5:00 PM</time></div>

    <h2 >Contact information</h2>
        <div>Email address:
        <a href="mailto:dscott@laurentian.ca">dscott@laurentian.ca</a></div>

    <div>
        <div>
            <h3>Mailing address</h3>
            School of Education - Music Resource Centre<br />Laurentian University<br />
            Sudbury<br />
            ON<br />
            Canada<br />
            P3E 2C6<br />
        </div>
    </div>

    <h2>Branch relationship</h2>
    <div>Parent library:
        <a href="/eg/opac/library/LUSYS">Laurentian University</a>
    </div>

Example encoded as [Microdata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_\(HTML\)) embedded in HTML.

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Library">
    <h1 itemprop="name">
        Music Resource Centre
    </h1>
    <h2>
        Opening hours
    </h2>
    <div itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link itemprop="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Monday">Monday: <time itemprop="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time itemprop="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link itemprop="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Tuesday">Tuesday: <time itemprop="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time itemprop="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link itemprop="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Wednesday">Wednesday: <time itemprop="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time itemprop="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link itemprop="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Thursday">Thursday: <time itemprop="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time itemprop="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link itemprop="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Friday">Friday: <time itemprop="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time itemprop="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link itemprop="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Saturday">Saturday: <time itemprop="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time itemprop="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div itemprop="openingHoursSpecification" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link itemprop="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Sunday">Sunday: <time itemprop="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time itemprop="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <h2>
        Contact information
    </h2>
    <div>
        Email address: <a href="mailto:dscott@laurentian.ca" itemprop="email">dscott@laurentian.ca</a>
    </div>
    <div>
        <div itemprop="location address" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/PostalAddress">
            <h3 itemprop="contactType">
                Mailing address
            </h3><span itemprop="streetAddress">School of Education - Music Resource Centre<br>
            Laurentian University</span><br>
            <span itemprop="addressLocality">Sudbury</span><br>
            <span itemprop="addressRegion">ON</span><br>
            <span itemprop="addressCountry">Canada</span><br>
            <span itemprop="postalCode">P3E 2C6</span><br>
        </div>
    </div>
    <h2>
        Branch relationship
    </h2>
    <div>
        Parent library: <a itemprop="parentOrganization" href="/eg/opac/library/LUSYS">Laurentian University</a>
    </div>
</div>

Example encoded as [RDFa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa) embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Library">
    <h1 property="name">
        Music Resource Centre
    </h1>
    <h2>
        Opening hours
    </h2>
    <div property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link property="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Monday">Monday: <time property="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time property="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link property="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Tuesday">Tuesday: <time property="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time property="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link property="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Wednesday">Wednesday: <time property="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time property="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link property="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Thursday">Thursday: <time property="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time property="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link property="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Friday">Friday: <time property="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time property="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link property="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Saturday">Saturday: <time property="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time property="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <div property="openingHoursSpecification" typeof="OpeningHoursSpecification">
        <link property="dayOfWeek" href="https://schema.org/Sunday">Sunday: <time property="opens" content="09:00:00">9:00 AM</time> - <time property="closes" content="17:00:00">5:00 PM</time>
    </div>
    <h2>
        Contact information
    </h2>
    <div>
        Email address: <a href="mailto:dscott@laurentian.ca" property="email">dscott@laurentian.ca</a>
    </div>
    <div>
        <div property="location address" typeof="PostalAddress">
            <h3 property="contactType">
                Mailing address
            </h3><span property="streetAddress">School of Education - Music Resource Centre<br>
            Laurentian University</span><br>
            <span property="addressLocality">Sudbury</span><br>
            <span property="addressRegion">ON</span><br>
            <span property="addressCountry">Canada</span><br>
            <span property="postalCode">P3E 2C6</span><br>
        </div>
    </div>
    <h2>
        Branch relationship
    </h2>
    <div>
        Parent library: <a property="parentOrganization" href="/eg/opac/library/LUSYS">Laurentian University</a>
    </div>
</div>

Example encoded as [JSON-LD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD) in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": \[
    "https://schema.org",
    { "@language": "en-ca" }
  \],
  "@type": "Library",
  "address":  {
    "@id": "\_:school\_edu\_library\_1",
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "addressCountry": "Canada",
    "addressLocality": "Sudbury",
    "addressRegion": "ON",
    "contactType": "Mailing address",
    "postalCode": "P3E 2C6",
    "streetAddress": "School of Education - Music Resource Centre Laurentian University"
  },
  "email":  "mailto:dscott@laurentian.ca",
  "location": { "@id": "\_:school\_edu\_library\_1" },
  "name":  "Music Resource Centre",
  "parentOrganization": "https://laurentian.concat.ca/eg/opac/library/LUSYS",
  "openingHoursSpecification": \[
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "closes":  "17:00:00",
      "dayOfWeek": "https://schema.org/Sunday",
      "opens":  "09:00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "closes": "17:00:00" ,
      "dayOfWeek": "https://schema.org/Saturday",
      "opens": "09:00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "closes":  "17:00:00",
      "dayOfWeek": "https://schema.org/Thursday",
      "opens": "09:00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "closes": "17:00:00",
      "dayOfWeek": "https://schema.org/Tuesday",
      "opens": "09:00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "closes": "17:00:00",
      "dayOfWeek":  "https://schema.org/Friday",
      "opens": "09:00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "closes": "17:00:00",
      "dayOfWeek": "https://schema.org/Monday",
      "opens": "09:00:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "closes": "17:00:00",
      "dayOfWeek":  "https://schema.org/Wednesday",
      "opens": "09:00:00"
    }
  \]
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.