Cron expression for every quarter

About 0 0 1 1,4,7,10 *

0 0 1 1,4,7,10 * — Runs at midnight on the first day of January, April, July, and October.

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 12:00 AM, on day 1 of the month, only in January, April, July, and October
0 0 1 1,4,7,10 * /path/to/command

GitHub Actions workflow

# At 12:00 AM, on day 1 of the month, only in January, April, July, and October
# Note: GitHub Actions always runs schedules in UTC.
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 1 1,4,7,10 *'

Monthly & yearly schedules

• every month0 0 1 * *
• the first of the month at 9 AM0 9 1 * *
• the 15th of every month0 0 15 * *
• every year0 0 1 1 *
• the last day of the month≈ 0 0 28-31 * *

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