Cron every Monday

The cron expression for every Monday is:

0 0 * * 1

Runs once a week, on Monday at 00:00.

Once a week

Standard 5-field cron

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Next 10 runs

For 0 0 * * 1, in the timezone you pick. Cron uses the server's timezone.

Times in UTC as of the last site update. They refresh when the page loads in a browser.

Timezone

#	Date and time	When
1	Nov 2, 2026, 00:00	Monday
2	Nov 9, 2026, 00:00	Monday
3	Nov 16, 2026, 00:00	Monday
4	Nov 23, 2026, 00:00	Monday
5	Nov 30, 2026, 00:00	Monday
6	Dec 7, 2026, 00:00	Monday
7	Dec 14, 2026, 00:00	Monday
8	Dec 21, 2026, 00:00	Monday
9	Dec 28, 2026, 00:00	Monday
10	Jan 4, 2027, 00:00	Monday

How to read 0 0 * * 1

0 0 sets midnight. 1 in the day-of-week field is Monday.

Field	Value	Meaning	Allowed
Minute	0	At the top of the hour	0-59
Hour	0	At 12:00 AM	0-23
Day of month	*	Every day of the month	1-31
Month	*	Every month	1-12 or jan-dec
Weekday	1	Monday	0-7 or sun-sat

Watch out for

To run on Monday morning instead of the night before, set the hour: 0 9 * * 1 runs at 09:00.
Most cron versions also accept a day name: 0 0 * * MON.

Often used for: Weekly reports, rotations and cleanups that start the week.

Use it in

crontab

0 0 * * 1 /path/to/your-script.sh

Edit with crontab -e. Runs in the server's timezone.

Kubernetes CronJob

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-job
spec:
  schedule: "0 0 * * 1"
  timeZone: "Etc/UTC"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
          containers:
            - name: my-job
              image: busybox:1.36
              command: ["sh", "-c", "date"]

Without timeZone, the schedule follows the timezone of the kube-controller-manager.

GitHub Actions

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * 1'
      timezone: "Etc/UTC"
jobs:
  run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: ./your-script.sh

Without timezone, GitHub runs schedules in UTC. It runs them at most every 5 minutes, and a run can start late when GitHub is busy.

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