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Spring cron expression: every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays
To run a Spring job every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays, use:
0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5Every 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 |
|---|---|
| Spring (this page) | 0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5 |
| Quartz | 0 */15 9-17 ? * 2-6 |
| 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 Spring config
Drop this into your project. The expression is the one above.
@Scheduled(cron = "0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5", zone = "UTC")
public void runJob() {
// ...
}app.job.cron=0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5
# @Scheduled(cron = "${app.job.cron}")The Spring fields, in order: second (0-59), 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 Spring
- The expression has six fields, so */15 in the minutes position still needs a leading 0 for seconds, or the job fires every second of those minutes.
- Spring numbers Sunday as 0 (or 7), unlike Quartz. MON-FRI works and is the clearest.
- Spring evaluates in the server time zone by default. Add zone = "UTC" (or any ZoneId) to @Scheduled to make it explicit.
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 Spring job every 15 minutes during business hours on weekdays?
Use 0 */15 9-17 * * 1-5. 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?
Quartz: 0 */15 9-17 ? * 2-6; Crontab: */15 9-17 * * 1-5; Kubernetes: */15 9-17 * * 1-5. The table on this page lists every dialect.
Which time zone does Spring use for this schedule?
Spring evaluates in the server time zone by default. Add zone = "UTC" (or any ZoneId) to @Scheduled to make it explicit.