Every Monday at 9am Cron Expression for Spring

0 0 9 * * MON

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Platform

Expression

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

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.sh

When to use this schedule

▸ Weekly team standup briefing email sent Monday morning
▸ Monday morning CI health check emails before standups begin
▸ Kicking off the weekly data refresh at the start of the business week

Platform Syntax Comparison

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

Platform	Expression	Fields
Standard Linux/Unix	`0 9 * * 1`	5 fields
GitHub Actions	`0 9 * * 1`	5 fields
Google Cloud Scheduler	`0 9 * * 1`	5 fields
Kubernetes CronJob	`0 9 * * 1`	5 fields
Azure Functions (NCRONTAB)	`0 0 9 * * 1`	6 fields
AWS EventBridge	`0 9 ? * MON *`	6 fields
Quartz Scheduler	`0 0 9 ? * MON`	7 fields
Spring @Scheduled	`0 0 9 * * MON`	6 fields
Jenkins	`H 9 * * 1`	5 fields
Apache Airflow	`0 9 * * 1`	5 fields

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I set this to 9am US Eastern in GitHub Actions? ▾

GitHub Actions runs in UTC. 9am EST = 14:00 UTC, so use "0 14 * * 1". During EDT (summer) it's 13:00 UTC: "0 13 * * 1".

Related Expressions

Every Weekday at 9am

Every Monday at Midnight

Every Friday at 5pm