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Cron Job Parser

Examples

Five fields separated by spaces: minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week.

In plain English

On weekdays at 09:00

Field breakdown

  • Click a field to select it in the expression

About cron expressions

A cron expression is a string of five fields that defines a recurring schedule. This tool translates the expression into plain English and previews the next runs so you can sanity-check before deploying.

Fields

FieldAllowed values
Minute0–59
Hour0–23
Day of month1–31
Month1–12or JAN–DEC
Day of week0–6or SUN–SAT; 0 and 7 are Sunday

Syntax

SymbolMeaning
*any value (every minute / hour / day…)
,list separator (e.g. 1,15,30)
-range (e.g. 9-17 means 9 through 17)
/step (e.g. */5 means every 5)
@dailyshortcuts for common schedules