By normal day I mean a day where he doesn’t have any important meeting with other heads of countries, international events, celebrations, or special events.
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It depends largely on how lawmaking is set up.
They might be the overseer of a legislative body, have the final word on whether bills are signed into law, create laws. In the US, the Vice President conducts the lawmaking process, while the president signs or rejects the final form of laws (but can be overridden)
It also depends on how policing and military is set up. The head-of-state may have the entire military and country policing under them, able to declare war and enforce the laws. This is the US president and the executive branch, under which almost all of enforcement lies, such as FBI, CIA, US Marshalls, postal inspectors, regulatory agencies…
Then they might be in charge of the budgeting of the government, how to tax and disperse funds.
Much of this power has been delegated to long-lasting government institutions under the purvey of the head of a country.
Then there is diplomacy, appointing ambassadors, embassies and consulates, and negotiating inter-state treaties and agreements.
France is different from Venezuela is different from Botswana…
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