Every Last Day of the Month (Quartz) Cron Expression for Quartz
0 0 0 L * ?Try it live
Valid
MINMinute
0HRHour
9DOMDay of Month
*MONMonth
*DOWDay of Week
1-5In 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- 1Mon, May 18, 09:00 AM UTCin 3d
- 2Tue, May 19, 09:00 AM UTCin 4d
- 3Wed, May 20, 09:00 AM UTCin 5d
- 4Thu, May 21, 09:00 AM UTCin 6d
- 5Fri, May 22, 09:00 AM UTCin 7d
- 6Mon, May 25, 09:00 AM UTCin 10d
- 7Tue, May 26, 09:00 AM UTCin 11d
- 8Wed, May 27, 09:00 AM UTCin 12d
- 9Thu, May 28, 09:00 AM UTCin 13d
- 10Fri, May 29, 09:00 AM UTCin 14d
crontab entrybash
# Add to crontab with: crontab -e
0 9 * * 1-5 /path/to/your/script.shWhen to use this schedule
- ▸ End-of-month billing runs that must fire on the actual last day
- ▸ Month-end reporting jobs that close the books on the final day
- ▸ Archiving the current month's records before the new month begins
Platform Syntax Comparison
The same "Every Last Day of the Month (Quartz)" schedule expressed in every major platform's cron syntax.
| Platform | Expression |
|---|---|
| Standard Linux/Unix | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| GitHub Actions | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| Google Cloud Scheduler | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| Kubernetes CronJob | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| Azure Functions (NCRONTAB) | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| AWS EventBridge | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| Quartz Scheduler | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| Spring @Scheduled | 0 0 0 L * * |
| Jenkins | 0 0 0 L * ? |
| Apache Airflow | 0 0 0 L * ? |
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the "L" character work in standard cron? ▾
No — "L" is a Quartz Scheduler extension. Standard 5-field cron does not support it. Use a script that checks the date if you need last-day scheduling on Linux cron.
What does "L" do in the day-of-month field? ▾
"L" in day-of-month means "the last day of the current month" — 31 in January, 28 (or 29) in February, 30 in April, etc. It adapts automatically to the month.