Cron for every minute

The most frequent schedule standard cron can express. Useful for queue drains and health checks, and the fastest way to exhaust a hosted scheduler's invocation budget.

* * * * *

Every minute

Interpreted in UTC · approximately 1440 runs per day

Things to check

Note
Runs 1440 times per day
This is a high firing rate. Overlapping executions are likely if the job takes longer than the interval, and most hosted schedulers meter invocations.
Fix: Add a lock so runs cannot overlap, and confirm your platform allows this frequency (Vercel Hobby plans are limited to daily cron jobs).

Fields

Minute*: Every minute.
Hour*: Every hour.
Day of month*: Every day of the month.
Month*: Every month.
Day of week*: Every day of the week.

Next runs

Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:512026-09-02T15:51:00.000Z
Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:522026-09-02T15:52:00.000Z
Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:532026-09-02T15:53:00.000Z
Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:542026-09-02T15:54:00.000Z
Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:552026-09-02T15:55:00.000Z
Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:562026-09-02T15:56:00.000Z
Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:572026-09-02T15:57:00.000Z
Wed, 2026-09-02, 15:582026-09-02T15:58:00.000Z

Try a different expression or timezone

Times above are in UTC. Pick a timezone here to see this schedule in local time.

Call this from code or an agent

curl 'https://crontoenglish.com/api/v1/explain?expression=*%20*%20*%20*%20*'

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