Cron for the first of every month
Midnight on the 1st, twelve times a year. Equivalent to the @monthly macro, and the right shape for monthly billing and reports.
0 0 1 * *
At 00:00, on the 1st of the month
Interpreted in UTC · approximately 11 runs per year
Things to check
Note
Interpreted in UTC
A cron expression has no timezone of its own — the scheduler's zone decides when it fires. These times are computed in UTC. The same expression on a host in another zone runs at a different moment.
Fix: Set the schedule timezone explicitly (TZ= or CRON_TZ= in crontab, `timeZone` in Kubernetes, or the scheduler's own setting). Vercel Cron Jobs always run in UTC.
Fields
- Minute
0 - At minute 0.
- Hour
0 - At 00:00.
- Day of month
1 - On the 1st.
- Month
* - Every month.
- Day of week
* - Every day of the week.
Next runs
- Thu, 2026-10-01, 00:00
- Sun, 2026-11-01, 00:00
- Tue, 2026-12-01, 00:00
- Fri, 2027-01-01, 00:00
- Mon, 2027-02-01, 00:00
- Mon, 2027-03-01, 00:00
- Thu, 2027-04-01, 00:00
- Sat, 2027-05-01, 00:00
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=0%200%201%20*%20*'