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There's an idiomatic difference between "to have a bad day" and "to be having a bad day". The first (mostly) refers to external events and the second (mostly) to your internal reaction to them (mood, headache, etc.) - but there's no bright-line separation between them, just as there isn't in life. Perhaps fully-enlightened Buddhists or Stoics can completely separate external events from their own reactions to them - but then, a fully-enlightened Buddhist or Stoic wouldn't refer to any particular day as being "bad", either.
It might be helpful to ring all the changes on this phrase and see how its meaning shifts:
I have a bad day. (Don't use this. It doesn't work.)
Present:
I am having a bad day. Today, bad things are happening and I am in a bad mood.
I have been having a bad day. Much the same as "I am having a bad day", but with a hint of hope that things might be about to change.
I have had a bad day. The effect of this one is very similar to "I am having a bad day" - bad things might or might not still be happening, but I am definitely still in a bad mood.
Past:
I had a bad day. It's behind me; the bad part is over. Even if I say "I had a bad day today", the implication is that the day has ended - I'm probably at home drinking a beer.
I was having a bad day. I am talking about a particular time in the past (e.g., at 18:00 last Monday evening.) At that particular moment, bad things were happening and I was in a bad mood. "Chuck shouldn't have crossed me - he knew I was having a bad day."
I had been having a bad day. Bad things had been happening; my mood was bad; things might (or might not!) have been just about to change for the better. "I had been having a bad day when suddenly I found a $100 bill blowing down the street."
I had had a bad day. On the day I am speaking of, bad things had happened (and might still have been happening at the moment I am referring to), and my mood was bad. This particular phrase leaves some ambiguity - the bad day might still have been going on, it might have been over but I still had a headache, or I might already have been home unwinding with a beer.
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