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Quartz cron expression: every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays
To run a Quartz job every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays, use:
0 */15 9-17 ? * 2-6Every 15 minutes, during hours 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri.
Your week at a glance
Upcoming runs
| # | Local | UTC | From now |
|---|
Copy-ready code
Why use this schedule
Frequent checks during working hours only, which cuts the number of runs by about two thirds compared with all day, every day.
- Order-desk polling
- Intraday risk or trade reports
- Helpdesk escalation checks
First runs, as an example
Starting from 1 January 2027, evaluated in UTC:
| # | Date and time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 09:00:00 |
| 2 | Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 09:15:00 |
| 3 | Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 09:30:00 |
| 4 | Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 09:45:00 |
| 5 | Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 10:00:00 |
| 6 | Fri, 01 Jan 2027, 10:15:00 |
Every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays in every dialect
| System | Expression |
|---|---|
| Quartz (this page) | 0 */15 9-17 ? * 2-6 |
| Spring | 0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| Crontab | */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| Kubernetes | */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| AWS EventBridge | */15 9-17 ? * 2-6 * |
| Jenkins | H/15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| GitHub Actions | */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| node-cron | */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| Apache Airflow | */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| Azure Functions | 0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| Google Cloud Scheduler | */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
Need to translate a different expression? Use the cron converter.
Ready-to-use Quartz config
Drop this into your project. The expression is the one above.
Trigger trigger = TriggerBuilder.newTrigger()
.withIdentity("myTrigger", "group1")
.withSchedule(CronScheduleBuilder.cronSchedule("0 */15 9-17 ? * 2-6")
.inTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")))
.build();The Quartz fields, in order: second (0-59), minute (0-59), hour (0-23), day-of-month (1-31), month (1-12), day-of-week (1-7, 1 = Sunday), year (1970-2199, optional).
Things to watch out for in Quartz
- 0/N and */N both work, but the schedule restarts at the start of each hour, so N should divide 60 for even gaps.
- Weekdays are 1-7 with Sunday as 1. Monday to Friday is 2-6, or write MON-FRI to avoid the off-by-one trap.
- Quartz uses the JVM default time zone unless you set one: CronScheduleBuilder.cronSchedule(expr).inTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")).
The common mistake with this schedule
The last run is 17:45, not 17:00, because the hour range is 9-17 and the minute step still fires inside hour 17.
Frequently asked questions
How do I run a Quartz job every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays?
Use 0 */15 9-17 ? * 2-6. Every 15 minutes, during hours 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri.
What is the every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays cron expression in other systems?
Spring: 0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5; Crontab: */15 9-17 * * 1-5; Kubernetes: */15 9-17 * * 1-5. The table on this page lists every dialect.
Which time zone does Quartz use for this schedule?
Quartz uses the JVM default time zone unless you set one: CronScheduleBuilder.cronSchedule(expr).inTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")).