Cron expression for every day at 4 PM

About 0 16 * * *

0 16 * * * runs once a day at 4 PM in whatever timezone the scheduler uses — usually UTC on servers and always UTC on GitHub Actions. Use the timezone picker to see when that actually lands for you.

Cron reads the five fields as minute hour day month weekday. For this schedule that breaks down as:

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Use it in crontab or GitHub Actions

Both snippets are ready to paste. A crontab runs in the server's local timezone; GitHub Actions always evaluates schedules in UTC. For Kubernetes, AWS EventBridge, or Vercel, use the export menu in the calculator above.

crontab

# At 04:00 PM, every day
0 16 * * * /path/to/command

GitHub Actions workflow

# At 04:00 PM, every day
# Note: GitHub Actions always runs schedules in UTC.
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 16 * * *'

Daily schedules

• every day at midnight0 0 * * *
• every day at 1 AM0 1 * * *
• every day at 2 AM0 2 * * *
• every day at 3 AM0 3 * * *
• every day at 4 AM0 4 * * *
• every day at 5 AM0 5 * * *

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