The cron expression to run a job every hour is 0 * * * *. Preview upcoming executions in any timezone and copy it straight into your scheduler.
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About 0 * * * *
0 * * * * fires at the top of every hour, on minute 0. To run at a different minute past each hour, change the first field: 15 * * * * runs at :15.
Cron reads the five fields as minute hour day month weekday. For this schedule that breaks down as:
| Field | Position | Matches |
|---|---|---|
0 | minute | 0 |
* | hour | every hour |
* | day of month | every day |
* | month | every month |
* | day of week | every day of the week |
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Use it in crontab or GitHub Actions
The snippets below use UTC. The crontab timezone setting requires a compatible daemon such as Cronie. GitHub Actions defaults to UTC and accepts a timezone on each schedule. For other timezones, Kubernetes, EventBridge Scheduler, or Vercel, use the export menu in the calculator above.
crontab
# Every hour, every day # CRON_TZ requires a cron implementation that supports it, such as Cronie. CRON_TZ=UTC 0 * * * * /path/to/command
GitHub Actions workflow
# Every hour, every day
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 * * * *'
timezone: "UTC"