Cron expression for every year

About 0 0 1 1 *

0 0 1 1 * — Runs once a year, at midnight on January 1st. Equivalent to the @yearly alias.

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
0 0 1 1 * /path/to/command

GitHub Actions workflow

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

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 quarter0 0 1 1,4,7,10 *
• the last day of the month≈ 0 0 28-31 * *

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