Cron expression for every Wednesday

The cron expression to run a job every Wednesday at midnight is 0 0 * * 3. See the next executions and copy it for crontab, Kubernetes, or GitHub Actions.

0minute
0hour
*day
*month
3weekday

In Plain English

What your cron expression actually means.

At 12:00 AM, only on Wednesday

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About 0 0 * * 3

0 0 * * 3 runs weekly at midnight on Wednesday. The last field is the day of week, where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday — Wednesday is 3.

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

  • 0 minute
  • 0 hour
  • * day of month (every value)
  • * month (every value)
  • 3 day of week

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