Cron Job Every Weekday (Mon-Fri) – Expression & Examples
The range 1-5 in the day-of-week field means Monday through Friday. Excludes Saturday and Sunday.
How It Works
The range 1-5 in the day-of-week field means Monday through Friday. Excludes Saturday and Sunday.
Common Use Cases
- Business-day reports
- Office-hours monitoring
- Weekday-only email digests
- Work-schedule automation
Monitor a Job on This Schedule
Writing the 0 0 * * 1-5 schedule is only half the job. Cron fires silently — if the run is skipped, the server is down, or the script fails, nothing tells you. A heartbeat monitor closes that gap: your job pings a URL on success, and you get an alert the moment an expected run goes missing. CronJobPro can run this schedule for you as an HTTP job, or watch a job you run elsewhere (cron, CI, Kubernetes) with a dead-man's-switch check.
Schedule This Cron Job Now
Create a free CronJobPro account and use 0 0 * * 1-5 to schedule HTTP requests automatically — with monitoring, retries, and notifications built in.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does 0 0 * * 1-5 mean in cron?
The range 1-5 in the day-of-week field means Monday through Friday. Excludes Saturday and Sunday.
How do I use this cron expression?
On Linux/macOS, edit your crontab with crontab -e and add:0 0 * * 1-5 /path/to/your/script.sh
Or use CronJobPro to schedule HTTP requests with this expression — no server required.
What timezone does cron use?
By default, cron uses the system timezone. CronJobPro lets you set a specific timezone per job, so your schedules are predictable regardless of server location.