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Jenkins cron expression: every weekday at 9:00 AM

To run a Jenkins job every weekday at 9:00 AM, use:

H 9 * * 1-5

At a hashed minute (Jenkins picks it from the job name), during hour 09, on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri.

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Why use this schedule

Monday to Friday only, skipping weekends. The standard business-day schedule.

First runs, as an example

Starting from 1 January 2027, evaluated in UTC (the hashed H offset is shown as its range start):

#Date and time (UTC)
1Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 09:00:00
2Mon, 04 Jan 2027, 09:00:00
3Tue, 05 Jan 2027, 09:00:00
4Wed, 06 Jan 2027, 09:00:00
5Thu, 07 Jan 2027, 09:00:00
6Fri, 08 Jan 2027, 09:00:00

Every weekday at 9:00 AM in every dialect

SystemExpression
Jenkins (this page)H 9 * * 1-5
Quartz0 0 9 ? * 2-6
Spring0 0 9 * * 1-5
Crontab0 9 * * 1-5
Kubernetes0 9 * * 1-5
AWS EventBridge0 9 ? * 2-6 *
GitHub Actions0 9 * * 1-5
node-cron0 9 * * 1-5
Apache Airflow0 9 * * 1-5
Azure Functions0 0 9 * * 1-5
Google Cloud Scheduler0 9 * * 1-5

Need to translate a different expression? Use the cron converter.

Ready-to-use Jenkins config

Drop this into your project. The expression is the one above.

Declarative pipeline
pipeline {
    agent any
    triggers { cron('H 9 * * 1-5') }
    stages {
        stage('Build') { steps { echo 'Scheduled build' } }
    }
}

The Jenkins fields, in order: minute (0-59), hour (0-23), day-of-month (1-31), month (1-12), day-of-week (0-7, 0 and 7 = Sunday).

Things to watch out for in Jenkins

The common mistake with this schedule

Weekday numbering differs between systems. Monday to Friday is 1-5 in Unix, 2-6 in Quartz and EventBridge. Use MON-FRI where you can.

Frequently asked questions

How do I run a Jenkins job every weekday at 9:00 AM?

Use H 9 * * 1-5. At a hashed minute (Jenkins picks it from the job name), during hour 09, on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri.

What is the every weekday at 9:00 AM cron expression in other systems?

Quartz: 0 0 9 ? * 2-6; Spring: 0 0 9 * * 1-5; Crontab: 0 9 * * 1-5. The table on this page lists every dialect.

Which time zone does Jenkins use for this schedule?

Jenkins uses the controller's time zone. Put TZ=Asia/Kolkata on its own first line of the trigger to override it.

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