diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c86d73fbe..acba764a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ All CLI options are optional:
 --corsDisallowCredentials   When provided, the default Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header value will be passed as 'false'. Default: true
 --corsExposedHeaders        Used as additional Access-Control-Exposed-Headers header value for responses. Delimit multiple values with commas. Default: 'WWW-Authenticate,Server-Authorization'
 --disableCookieValidation   Used to disable cookie-validation on hapi.js-server
+--disableScheduledEvents    Disables all scheduled events. Overrides configurations in serverless.yml.
 --dockerHost                The host name of Docker. Default: localhost
 --dockerHostServicePath     Defines service path which is used by SLS running inside Docker container
 --dockerNetwork             The network that the Docker container will connect to
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5ca4fd20d..757ec05d7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
     "Gert Jansen van Rensburg (https://github.com/gertjvr)",
     "Guillaume Carbonneau (https://github.com/guillaume)",
     "György Balássy (https://github.com/balassy)",
+    "James Relyea (https://github.com/james-relyea)",
     "Jarda Snajdr (https://github.com/jsnajdr)",
     "Jaryd Carolin (https://github.com/horyd)",
     "Jeff Hall (https://github.com/electrikdevelopment)",
diff --git a/src/ServerlessOffline.js b/src/ServerlessOffline.js
index 2e0d8c44b..ecbf19e9e 100644
--- a/src/ServerlessOffline.js
+++ b/src/ServerlessOffline.js
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ export default class ServerlessOffline {
       eventModules.push(this._createHttp(httpEvents))
     }
 
-    if (scheduleEvents.length > 0) {
+    if (!this.#options.disableScheduledEvents && scheduleEvents.length > 0) {
       eventModules.push(this._createSchedule(scheduleEvents))
     }
 
diff --git a/src/config/commandOptions.js b/src/config/commandOptions.js
index 09f4d8d6b..70b66c154 100644
--- a/src/config/commandOptions.js
+++ b/src/config/commandOptions.js
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ export default {
     usage: 'Used to disable cookie-validation on hapi.js-server',
     type: 'boolean',
   },
+  disableScheduledEvents: {
+    usage:
+      'Disables all scheduled events. Overrides configurations in serverless.yml. Default: false',
+    type: 'boolean',
+  },
   enforceSecureCookies: {
     usage: 'Enforce secure cookies',
     type: 'boolean',
diff --git a/src/config/defaultOptions.js b/src/config/defaultOptions.js
index e8a511786..7468d8cd2 100644
--- a/src/config/defaultOptions.js
+++ b/src/config/defaultOptions.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export default {
   corsAllowOrigin: '*',
   corsExposedHeaders: 'WWW-Authenticate,Server-Authorization',
   disableCookieValidation: false,
+  disableScheduledEvents: false,
   dockerHost: 'localhost',
   dockerHostServicePath: null,
   dockerNetwork: null,