Cron Expression for Every Weekday

0 0 * * 1-5

At 12:00 AM, Monday through Friday. Business-day batch processing that should skip weekends.

Field-by-field breakdown

Field	Value	Allowed range	Meaning
Minute	0	0–59	at minute 0
Hour	0	0–23	at hour 0
Day of month	*	1–31	every day of the month
Month	*	1–12	every month
Day of week	1-5	0–6 (Sunday = 0)	Monday through Friday

Next 5 runs (your time zone)

Calculating upcoming runs…

Cron uses the time zone of the machine or scheduler that runs it, which is often UTC on servers.

How to use this schedule

crontab

0 0 * * 1-5 /path/to/script.sh >> /var/log/job.log 2>&1

Kubernetes CronJob

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-job
spec:
  schedule: "0 0 * * 1-5"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
            - name: my-job
              image: busybox
              command: ["sh", "-c", "echo running"]
          restartPolicy: OnFailure

GitHub Actions

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * 1-5'  # UTC

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the cron expression for every weekday?

Use "0 0 * * 1-5". In plain English: At 12:00 AM, Monday through Friday.

What does "0 0 * * 1-5" mean?

Minute: at minute 0; Hour: at hour 0; Day of month: every day of the month; Month: every month; Day of week: Monday through Friday.