Spring cron expression: every day at midnight

To run a Spring job every day at midnight, use:

0 0 0 * * *

At 00:00 UTC.

Spring @Scheduled (6-field) expression

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The default nightly slot. Everything that can wait until the day is over runs here.

Starting from 1 January 2027, evaluated in UTC:

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

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

Spring @Scheduled

@Scheduled(cron = "0 0 0 * * *", zone = "UTC")
public void runJob() {
    // ...
}

application.properties

app.job.cron=0 0 0 * * *
# @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).

Spring uses six fields (no year). The leading 0 is the seconds field.
Spring evaluates in the server time zone by default. Add zone = "UTC" (or any ZoneId) to @Scheduled to make it explicit.

Midnight is the busiest minute on many shared systems. If your job is not time-critical, run it at 02:17 instead of 00:00.

How do I run a Spring job every day at midnight?

Use 0 0 0 * * *. At 00:00 UTC.

What is the every day at midnight cron expression in other systems?

Quartz: 0 0 0 * * ?; Crontab: 0 0 * * *; Kubernetes: 0 0 * * *. 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.