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Quartz cron expression: on the last Friday of every month at noon
To run a Quartz job on the last Friday of every month at noon, use:
0 0 12 ? * 6LAt 12:00 UTC, on the last Fri.
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Why use this schedule
Month-end releases or reviews that happen on the last Friday. Because months have four or five Fridays, you cannot hard-code a single day number, and each system expresses the rule differently.
- Last-Friday release freezes
- Monthly all-hands reports
- Month-end clean-up days
First runs, as an example
Starting from 1 January 2027, evaluated in UTC:
| # | Date and time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fri, 29 Jan 2027, 12:00:00 |
| 2 | Fri, 26 Feb 2027, 12:00:00 |
| 3 | Fri, 26 Mar 2027, 12:00:00 |
| 4 | Fri, 30 Apr 2027, 12:00:00 |
| 5 | Fri, 28 May 2027, 12:00:00 |
| 6 | Fri, 25 Jun 2027, 12:00:00 |
On the last Friday of every month at noon in every dialect
| System | Expression |
|---|---|
| Quartz (this page) | 0 0 12 ? * 6L |
| Spring | 0 0 12 * * 5L |
| Crontab | 0 12 * * 5 |
| Kubernetes | 0 12 * * 5 |
| AWS EventBridge | 0 12 ? * 6L * |
| Jenkins | H 12 * * 5 |
| GitHub Actions | 0 12 * * 5 |
| node-cron | 0 12 * * 5L |
| Apache Airflow | 0 12 * * 5 |
| Azure Functions | 0 0 12 * * 5 |
| Google Cloud Scheduler | 0 12 * * 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 0 12 ? * 6L")
.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
- 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.
- L, W and # are Quartz extensions. They exist in Spring and EventBridge too, but not in Unix cron or Kubernetes.
- 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 L suffix is Quartz and Spring only. Quartz counts Friday as 6, so it is 6L, while Spring counts Friday as 5, so it is 5L.
Frequently asked questions
How do I run a Quartz job on the last Friday of every month at noon?
Use 0 0 12 ? * 6L. At 12:00 UTC, on the last Fri.
What is the on the last Friday of every month at noon cron expression in other systems?
Spring: 0 0 12 * * 5L; Crontab: 0 12 * * 5; Kubernetes: 0 12 * * 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")).