---
title: "How to check the next execution date of an Airflow DAG"
description: "How to use Airflow CLI to get the next execution date of a DAG"
author: "Bartosz Mikulski"
author_bio: "Principal AI Engineer & MLOps Architect. I bridge the gap between \"it works in a notebook\" and \"it works for 200 million users.\""
author_url: https://mikulskibartosz.name
author_linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikulskibartosz/
author_github: https://github.com/mikulskibartosz
canonical_url: https://mikulskibartosz.name/airflow-dag-next-execution-date
---

As far as I know, there is no way to check the next execution date in the Airflow web interface. It may be possible if you make some customizations of your Airflow instance or use a plugin.

If you are quite desperate, you may try to copy the cron expression to https://crontab.guru/ and check the execution date using that website.

In this article, I will use something way simpler. All we need is the airflow command-line interface.

We have to copy the DAG id and use the `next_execution` command like this:

```sh
airflow next_execution dag_id
```

In the output, we are going to get the next execution date.