Cron Expression Builder

Pick a schedule and get the cron expression, with a plain-English summary.

Fields: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week
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What this tool does

This builder helps you create a cron expression — the five-field schedule used by Unix cron, CI pipelines and many schedulers. Choose a common schedule or type your own, and see a human-readable description to confirm it means what you intend.

The five fields

  • Minute (0–59), Hour (0–23)
  • Day of month (1–31), Month (1–12)
  • Day of week (0–6, Sunday = 0)

Handy patterns

  • */5 * * * * — every 5 minutes.
  • 0 9 * * 1-5 — 9 AM on weekdays.
  • 0 0 1 * * — midnight on the 1st each month.
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