July 23 Zodiac Sign

July 23 by year

Find your year and look for a clock time: a birth before it is Cancer, a birth at or after it is Leo. A row that says Leo all day needs only the date, and those rows run unbroken after 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 23

The tradition reads love differently in these two signs. Cancer, a cardinal water sign under the Moon, builds a bond on shelter: it notices a mood before anyone names it, remembers what hurt and goes quiet when hurt itself. A quarrel with Cancer tends to end in silence and a slow return. Leo, a fixed fire sign under the Sun, builds a bond on loyalty shown in public, with warm praise, big gestures and a partner introduced with pride.

Leo is read as the one who argues out loud, forgives fast and expects appreciation in return. Because the sign is fixed, a Leo attachment is described as lasting once it is given. Cancer holds on too, through memory instead of display, and it asks for reassurance more often than it admits.

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 23: 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.

Is anyone born on July 23 a Cancer?

A few people are: those born in the early hours of the 40 years when midnight still fell under Cancer. For everyone else the day belongs to Leo from its first minute, and that covers 56 of our years.

Check your year in the table. A row with a minute asks you to compare it against your birth record, and a Leo-all-day row settles it on the date alone.

Why July 23 turned Leo in every year

Leap years went first. All 24 leap years from 1932 to 2024 were whole-day Leo, and they make up 24 of the 56 such years. Ordinary years joined from 1953, and after 2011 no Eastern year breaks the run.

The Sun's year is a little over 365 days, so its arrival in Leo slides later every year and snaps back by a day whenever February 29 arrives. Over this stretch the arrival moved from July 23 onto July 22, and it stays there for every year we cover.

What time does July 23 turn Leo?

July 22 changes mostly in the evening, and July 23 does the opposite: 20 changes landed between midnight and 6 a.m., 14 before noon, 6 before 6 p.m. and 0 after.

The first change on record is 12:11 a.m. (2011), the last 4:21 p.m. (1931). A New York hospital in any of these years was running on daylight time, so a wall clock there matches the figures above.

Questions about the July 23 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.