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Monday / or date of choice to start week on calendar or picker

  • January 12, 2026
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Is there any word on a feature to allow users to change the day of the week that you use for the first day of the week? I know a lot of US calendars will use Sunday for some reason, but I don’t actually know any businesses that run on a Sunday start. I’ve always used a Monday start to the week. And I’m pretty sure most of the rest of the world uses Monday to start the week.

I noticed people have been asking this for almost 8 years according to the help center. And it seems like the easiest change.

People were trying to suggest that we change our browser settings to some part of the world that does Monday start, and others were reporting that that doesn’t actually change the user experience. And making that change messes up every other application I use, so it doesn’t make sense. Just about all my productivity applications let you set this as a personal preference, and I’m kind of stunned this is still out there.

How can this be escalated, or is there a way to see if it’s on the roadmap?

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ScottWorld
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  • January 12, 2026

This would be an awesome feature — and all of my European clients are in need of this feature.

But unfortunately, Airtable has never added this to their product, and Airtable doesn’t reveal their future roadmap.

Airtable takes a very USA-centered approach to their product, so it’s questionable if we will ever see this added to the product.

Your best bet would be to submit it as a feature request on the product feedback form, but like you said, all of us have already been asking for this feature for almost a decade already. I’ve already submitted this feature request at least 4 times myself.

If this is a mission critical feature for you, your best bet would be to look into some of the 3rd-party portals that are available for Airtable, and have your users use the portal’s UI instead of Airtable’s UI to do their data entry. Some of these portals offer the ability to customize the dropdown calendar menus.

Here are some of the popular 3rd-party portals that are currently available for Airtable:
NolocoJetAdminSoftrPoryGlide, and MiniExtensions.

Hope this helps!

If you have a budget and you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with this or anything else that is Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld


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  • New Participant
  • January 17, 2026

Found community posts relating to this going back to the beginning of Airtable.

Pretty funny that such a minor change is still an issue 😄


Flow Digital
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  • January 19, 2026

Hey ​@aduenas !

Workaround for Monday week starts:

While Airtable's native calendar uses browser locale for week start, you can create a Monday-based week system using formula fields:

Create a "Week Starting" formula field:

DATEADD(
{Date Field},
-MOD(WEEKDAY({Date Field}) + 5, 7),
'days'
)

This calculates the Monday of any given date's week. Then you can:

Group Calendar views by this field:

  • In Calendar view settings, group by your Week Starting field
  • This gives you Monday-organized weekly sections
  • Sort and filter become Monday-based

For week numbers (ISO 8601 standard - Monday start):

WEEKNUM({Date Field}, 'Monday')

Alternative: Use Interfaces

If you're building dashboards or team views, Interface Calendar elements let you control the layout more precisely:

  • Create filtered views by week ranges
  • Use buttons to navigate Monday-to-Sunday periods
  • Combine with Timeline view for week-based project visualization

For reporting/grouping:

  • Group records by your Monday-based week field in Grid view
  • Use Timeline view (which can show weeks more flexibly)
  • Create filtered views like "This Week" using the Monday calculation

To submit feedback: Click the ? icon → "Give product feedback" to let Airtable know this matters to your workflow.

Flow Digital - Airtable Gold Services Partner — We're happy to help!


Mike_AutomaticN
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Hey ​@aduenas,

As mentioned by Scott above you will want to submit this as a feature request (and please do so!!). Multiple requests on this matter will help us get this in front of AT’s product team hopefully.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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