Cronnest

Crontab Generator

Free crontab generator and explainer. Build Unix cron expressions, see plain English and next run times.

Crontab Generator

Paste a cron → plain English + next runs. Everything stays in your browser.

5-field: min hour dom month dow

Plain English

Every hour, every day

Next 5 runs (UTC)

  1. Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 15:00:00 UTC2026-09-14T15:00:00.000Z
  2. Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 16:00:00 UTC2026-09-14T16:00:00.000Z
  3. Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 17:00:00 UTC2026-09-14T17:00:00.000Z
  4. Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 18:00:00 UTC2026-09-14T18:00:00.000Z
  5. Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 19:00:00 UTC2026-09-14T19:00:00.000Z

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Field order

Unix cron fields are minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week.