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Every Weekday at 9am Cron Expression for GitHub Actions

0 9 * * 1-5

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Valid
MINMinute
0
HRHour
9
DOMDay of Month
*
MONMonth
*
DOWDay of Week
1-5

In plain English

At 09:00 AM, Monday through Friday

English → Cron

Try: "every 5 minutes", "every weekday at 9am", "every Monday at 3pm", "every month on the 1st"

Next 10 Executions

UTC
  1. 1Mon, May 18, 09:00 AM UTCin 3d
  2. 2Tue, May 19, 09:00 AM UTCin 4d
  3. 3Wed, May 20, 09:00 AM UTCin 5d
  4. 4Thu, May 21, 09:00 AM UTCin 6d
  5. 5Fri, May 22, 09:00 AM UTCin 7d
  6. 6Mon, May 25, 09:00 AM UTCin 10d
  7. 7Tue, May 26, 09:00 AM UTCin 11d
  8. 8Wed, May 27, 09:00 AM UTCin 12d
  9. 9Thu, May 28, 09:00 AM UTCin 13d
  10. 10Fri, May 29, 09:00 AM UTCin 14d
crontab entrybash
# Add to crontab with: crontab -e
0 9 * * 1-5    /path/to/your/script.sh

When to use this schedule

  • ▸ Daily morning standup briefing emails delivered to the team at 9am
  • ▸ Kicking off overnight data pipelines' result validation each business morning
  • ▸ Triggering daily CI baseline builds at the start of the workday
  • ▸ Sending daily summary Slack messages before the team's morning sync

Platform Syntax Comparison

The same "Every Weekday at 9am" schedule expressed in every major platform's cron syntax.

PlatformExpression
Standard Linux/Unix
0 9 * * 1-5
GitHub Actions
0 9 * * 1-5
Google Cloud Scheduler
0 9 * * 1-5
Kubernetes CronJob
0 9 * * 1-5
Azure Functions (NCRONTAB)
0 0 9 * * 1-5
AWS EventBridge
0 9 ? * MON-FRI *
Quartz Scheduler
0 0 9 ? * MON-FRI
Spring @Scheduled
0 0 9 * * MON-FRI
Jenkins
H 9 * * 1-5
Apache Airflow
0 9 * * 1-5

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I set this to 9am New York time in GitHub Actions? ▾
GitHub Actions runs in UTC. New York is UTC-5 (EST) or UTC-4 (EDT). So 9am EST = 14:00 UTC. Use "0 14 * * 1-5" in winter and "0 13 * * 1-5" in summer, or pick one and accept a 1-hour drift during DST.
What's the AWS EventBridge equivalent? ▾
"0 9 ? * MON-FRI *" — note the "?" for day-of-month (required by AWS when specifying day-of-week) and "*" for year.

Related Expressions

Every Weekday at Midnight

0 0 * * 1-5

Every Weekday at 5pm

0 17 * * 1-5

Every Monday at 9am

0 9 * * 1