Cron every 5 minutes on weekdays

Expression: */5 * * * 1-5

Meaning

Run every five minutes from Monday through Friday.

Example use

Useful for workday-only polling, dashboards and support-hour processing.

How to modify it

Add an hour range such as 9-17 to limit the schedule to business hours.

Use it in the cron parser

Open the Cron Parser, paste */5 * * * 1-5, and review the next run times in your browser before using the schedule in production.

Related cron schedules

• Cron every 5 minutes — */5 * * * *
• Cron every 15 minutes on weekdays — */15 * * * 1-5
• Cron every hour during business hours — 0 9-17 * * 1-5

FAQ

Does cron use my local time zone?

Cron uses the time zone configured in the scheduler or server. Cloud platforms, CI systems and containers may default to UTC.

Is this a five-field or six-field cron?

This page uses standard five-field crontab syntax: minute, hour, day of month, month and day of week.