Cron expression for every Friday at 5pm
At 5:00 PM, only on Friday
0
minute
17
hour
*
day (month)
*
month
5
day (week)
At 5:00 PM, only on Friday
Try this expression in the interactive tool:
Open in cron explainer →Next 10 scheduled runs
#1Fri, 17 Apr 2026, 17:00
#2Fri, 24 Apr 2026, 17:00
#3Fri, 1 May 2026, 17:00
#4Fri, 8 May 2026, 17:00
#5Fri, 15 May 2026, 17:00
#6Fri, 22 May 2026, 17:00
#7Fri, 29 May 2026, 17:00
#8Fri, 5 Jun 2026, 17:00
#9Fri, 12 Jun 2026, 17:00
#10Fri, 19 Jun 2026, 17:00
Common use cases
Friday at 5 PM marks the close of the business week and is the natural trigger for weekly wrap-ups. Common uses include sending weekly team performance reports, posting end-of-week summaries to Slack, triggering weekly backup verifications, and generating "this week in numbers" analytics.
Some teams use this as a deployment freeze trigger — automatically disabling production deployments at 5 PM Friday and re-enabling them Monday morning.
Platform-specific syntax
crontab
0 17 * * 5 /path/to/script.shAWS EventBridge
cron(0 17 ? * FRI *)GitHub Actions
schedule:
- cron: '0 17 * * 5' # Fridays 5PM UTCKubernetes
schedule: "0 17 * * 5"Technical breakdown
The expression 0 17 * * 5 has five fields: minute=0, hour=17, day (month)=*, month=*, day (week)=5. At 5:00 PM, only on Friday.
Frequently asked questions
Is Friday day 5 or day 6?
Friday is day 5 in standard cron (0=Sunday, 1=Monday, ..., 5=Friday, 6=Saturday).