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

Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:032026-10-17T23:03:00.000Z
Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:042026-10-17T23:04:00.000Z
Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:052026-10-17T23:05:00.000Z
Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:062026-10-17T23:06:00.000Z
Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:072026-10-17T23:07:00.000Z
Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:082026-10-17T23:08:00.000Z
Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:092026-10-17T23:09:00.000Z
Sat, 2026-10-17, 23:102026-10-17T23:10:00.000Z

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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