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I'm aware that you can say "¿Qué tal tu día?", and "Cómo te fue el día?", but the second phrase is really asking someone how their day went.
Maybe ¿Qué tal tu día? is the exact same as asking someone how their day was, but "¿Cómo estuvo tu día?" seems like the most literal translation, so I wanted to ask: In what Spanish-speaking regions do people use the expression "¿Cómo estuvo tu día?" if any?
As a general inquiry I would use:
Note how estar and andar work in the same way here, and sometimes ser as well. In the second example I wouldn't use ser because ¿Cómo fue tu día? sounds like you're asking for a description.
These two can also be used but they may have different connotations:
You can sometimes substitute el día de hoy for hoy, but that sounds a bit more formal. In some places in Latin America people say hoy día (almost as a single word) for hoy.
"¿Qué tal tu día?" is ambiguous as to the time being asked about. It could mean:
OR
In my country (Argentina), I've never heard "¿Cómo te fue el día?", which sounds ungrammatical to me. I very much prefer:
Notice that "cómo" will accept either "ser" or "estar", while when asking "qué tal" the verb "estar" will be preferred.
