What is the cron expression for weekdays only?

The expression is 0 0 * * 1-5. The range 1-5 covers Monday through Friday.

Can I use MON-FRI instead of 1-5?

Some cron implementations support named days (MON-FRI), but numeric ranges (1-5) are more portable and universally supported.

Cron Every Weekday (Monday to Friday)

0 0 * * 1-5

Every weekday at 12:00 AM

Next 10 Executions

Times shown in UTC

Tue, May 19, 202600:00
Wed, May 20, 202600:00
Thu, May 21, 202600:00
Fri, May 22, 202600:00
Mon, May 25, 202600:00
Tue, May 26, 202600:00
Wed, May 27, 202600:00
Thu, May 28, 202600:00
Fri, May 29, 202600:00
Mon, Jun 1, 202600:00

Field Breakdown

0

Minute

0

Hour

*

Day of Month

Every day

*

Month

Every month

1-5

Day of Week

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

About This Schedule

The cron expression 0 0 * * 1-5 runs a job every weekday at midnight. The range 1-5 in the day-of-week field covers Monday (1) through Friday (5), skipping Saturday and Sunday.

Weekday-only schedules are essential for business operations: daily standups, work-hours monitoring, business metric reports, and deployment pipelines that shouldn't run on weekends.

To run at a specific business time, change the hour: 0 9 * * 1-5 runs at 9 AM on weekdays. You can also use MON-FRI on systems that support named days.