Cron Expression Tool
Explain a cron expression in plain English, see its next 10 run times in any time zone, or build one. crontab, Azure Functions and Quartz formats.
Cron expressions schedule jobs with five fields: minute, hour, day of month, month and day of week. Some schedulers add a seconds field at the front (Azure Functions, Hangfire, Spring) or a year at the end, and Quartz numbers the days 1 to 7 starting on Sunday where crontab uses 0 to 6. That's how a job meant for Monday ends up running on Sunday. Paste an expression to read it in plain English and see exactly when it will run next, including what happens on the nights clocks change.
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At 09:00, Monday through Friday
crontab format: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week (0 or 7 = Sunday)
| Minute | Hour | Day of month | Month | Day of week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 9 | * | * | 1-5 |
Next 10 runs (UTC)
| Local time | UTC | From now |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 2026-10-27 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-10-27 09:00:00 | in 15 hours |
| Wed 2026-10-28 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-10-28 09:00:00 | in 39 hours |
| Thu 2026-10-29 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-10-29 09:00:00 | in 2 days |
| Fri 2026-10-30 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-10-30 09:00:00 | in 3 days |
| Mon 2026-11-02 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-11-02 09:00:00 | in 6 days |
| Tue 2026-11-03 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-11-03 09:00:00 | in 7 days |
| Wed 2026-11-04 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-11-04 09:00:00 | in 8 days |
| Thu 2026-11-05 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-11-05 09:00:00 | in 9 days |
| Fri 2026-11-06 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-11-06 09:00:00 | in 10 days |
| Mon 2026-11-09 09:00:00 UTC+00:00 | 2026-11-09 09:00:00 | in 13 days |