diff --git a/src/lib/cron.test.ts b/src/lib/cron.test.ts
index 247a6b4..af7ab20 100644
--- a/src/lib/cron.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/cron.test.ts
@@ -107,6 +107,15 @@ describe('describeCron', () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it('returns the raw expression when the month is restricted', () => {
+    // Every phrasing describeCron can produce names a cadence, and none of them
+    // can carry "only in these months". Saying "daily at 03:00" for a June-only
+    // cron contradicts the ~3 times/month printed next to it by the advisory.
+    for (const cron of ['0 3 * 6 *', '0 3 * 1,7 *', '0 3 * */6 *', '0 3 1 3 *', '0 3 * 6 1']) {
+      expect(describeCron(cron), cron).toBe(cron);
+    }
+  });
+
   it('returns the raw expression when the field count is not 5', () => {
     // A 6-field Quartz cron shifts every index, so reading f[1] as the hour
     // would describe a time the schedule never runs at.
@@ -145,6 +154,16 @@ describe('formatScheduleFrequencyAdvisory', () => {
     expect(out).not.toContain('~0 time');
   });
 
+  it('does not call a month-restricted schedule daily', () => {
+    // Regression: describeCron used to skip the month field entirely, so this
+    // rendered as "~3 time(s)/month (daily at 03:00)" -- two claims that cannot
+    // both be true, in one sentence.
+    const out = formatScheduleFrequencyAdvisory('0 3 * 6 *');
+    expect(out).toContain('~3 time(s)/month');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('daily');
+    expect(out).toContain('0 3 * 6 *');
+  });
+
   it('still advises, without a frequency, for an expression it cannot read', () => {
     const out = formatScheduleFrequencyAdvisory('0 0 3 * * *');
     expect(out).toContain('0 0 3 * * *');
diff --git a/src/lib/cron.ts b/src/lib/cron.ts
index ba11c6f..46f91b4 100644
--- a/src/lib/cron.ts
+++ b/src/lib/cron.ts
@@ -145,9 +145,15 @@ export function runsPerMonth(cron: string): number | null {
 export function describeCron(cron: string): string {
   const f = fields(cron);
   if (f.length !== FIELD_COUNT) return cron.trim();
-  const [minute, hour, dayOfMonth, , dayOfWeek] = f;
+  const [minute, hour, dayOfMonth, month, dayOfWeek] = f;
 
   if (!isPinned(minute) || !isPinned(hour)) return cron.trim();
+  // A restricted month makes every phrasing below wrong, because none of them
+  // can say "except in the months this cron skips": `0 3 * 6 *` is not "daily
+  // at 03:00", it is daily *during June*. runsPerMonth already divides by the
+  // month count, so describing it as daily contradicts the frequency printed
+  // beside it in the same sentence.
+  if (!isWildcard(month)) return cron.trim();
   const at = `${hour!.padStart(2, '0')}:${minute!.padStart(2, '0')}`;
 
   if (isWildcard(dayOfMonth) && isWildcard(dayOfWeek)) return `daily at ${at}`;