July 22 Zodiac Sign

July 22 by year

An all-day Cancer row is a year when Leo arrived only on July 23. Every other row gives the minute of entry; the last all-day Cancer row is 2011.

Faster: enter your year above and you get your answer without the table.

Shown: 2021 to 2030. Born earlier? Tap Show all years under the table, then jump to your decade.

Times are clock times of that year in New York and Los Angeles, from the astronomy-engine ephemeris, rounded to the minute, with the daylight saving rules in force at the time. Central and Mountain time fall between the two columns.

Cancer and Leo: the two signs of July 22

In the tradition, Cancer is a cardinal water sign ruled by the Moon, and its friendships run like housekeeping. It remembers whose mother was in the hospital, keeps a pot of soup for a late arrival and treats the home as the base for every plan. Money is held close and saved for a rainy week. Leo is a fixed fire sign ruled by the Sun, and its habits are read as larger and warmer: it books the table, picks up the check and likes a group that turns up dressed for the evening.

Routines show the difference. A Cancer reading prefers the same restaurant, the same Sunday call and a text that says you got home safe. A Leo reading prefers the occasion, the bigger room and a toast before the first course. Because Leo is fixed, a habit that works tends to stay for years; because Cancer is cardinal, it is the sign said to start something new at home each season, a garden bed or a rearranged kitchen.

On this site: Moon in Cancer, Moon in Leo, Venus in Cancer, Venus in Leo, Mars in Cancer, Mars in Leo, Mercury in Cancer, Mercury in Leo.

Each sign in full: Cancer zodiac sign · Leo zodiac sign; how the two get along: Cancer and Leo compatibility.

The year ahead for both sides of July 22: Cancer horoscope 2027 · Leo horoscope 2027.

How often Cancer and Leo come up among birth dates from 1930 to 2025, and why websites name different signs for the same day: zodiac sign statistics.Leo belongs to the fire element with two other signs: fire signs.Cancer is one of the three water signs, with its own section on how much water a chart holds: water signs.

How often is July 22 Cancer all day?

Eastern time gives 40 whole-day Cancer years out of 96 July 22s, against none for whole-day Leo. The rest were split days, and they take over as the decades go on: the 1930s had 8 whole-day Cancer years and the 2010s only 1.

The last whole-day year was 2011, so everyone born on July 22 since then has a time-of-day answer. The Leo share is small even in the split years, 19.4% of the clock on average, so a birth at a random hour that day is more likely to be Cancer than Leo.

July 22 in New York and Los Angeles

Leo began in 1970 at 11:36 p.m. Pacific time, still July 22 in Los Angeles. In New York the same moment read 2:36 a.m. on July 23, so July 22 stayed Cancer to the last minute there, while in Los Angeles its closing minutes were already Leo.

That is the pattern in all 12 years where the two zones disagree, from 1937 to 2011: a New York birth stays Cancer for the full day while a Los Angeles birth late that day is already Leo. Pacific time counts only 28 full Cancer days where Eastern counts 40, and gives Leo 27.7% of the average day.

July 22 zodiac sign by birth time

Does daylight saving time move the answer? It changes only the number on the clock: New York clocks were on daylight time on July 22 in every year from 1930 to 2030, and the times in our table are the ones a wall clock showed. Evenings dominate: of the 56 split years, 24 had the entry after 6 p.m., 17 fell between noon and 6, 12 came before noon and only 3 came overnight.

Our earliest entry is 3:44 a.m. (2024) and our latest 11:52 p.m. (1953). A certificate time earlier than the entry in your row means Cancer; the same minute or later means Leo. This year's entry falls at 3:13 p.m. Eastern.

Questions about the July 22 zodiac sign

Other cusp birthdays

Every date where the zodiac sign depends on the year or the hour, grouped by the change of sign:

• ♓︎ Pisces to ♈︎ Aries: March 19 · March 20 · March 21
• ♈︎ Aries to ♉︎ Taurus: April 19 · April 20
• ♉︎ Taurus to ♊︎ Gemini: May 20 · May 21
• ♊︎ Gemini to ♋︎ Cancer: June 20 · June 21 · June 22
• ♋︎ Cancer to ♌︎ Leo: July 22 · July 23
• ♌︎ Leo to ♍︎ Virgo: August 22 · August 23
• ♍︎ Virgo to ♎︎ Libra: September 22 · September 23
• ♎︎ Libra to ♏︎ Scorpio: October 22 · October 23 · October 24
• ♏︎ Scorpio to ♐︎ Sagittarius: November 21 · November 22 · November 23
• ♐︎ Sagittarius to ♑︎ Capricorn: December 21 · December 22
• ♑︎ Capricorn to ♒︎ Aquarius: January 19 · January 20 · January 21
• ♒︎ Aquarius to ♓︎ Pisces: February 18 · February 19

Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Every time and count on this page comes from our own run of the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac) over the years 1930 to 2030, with historical US time zone rules. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science.