June 20 Zodiac Sign

June 20 by year

Where the table says only Gemini, the solstice came on June 21 that year. The few rows with a time are the exceptions, and that time is when Cancer begins.

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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.

Gemini and Cancer: the two signs of June 20

Astrologers expect Gemini and Cancer to part ways at the first sign of trouble. Gemini, mutable and airy, answers to Mercury, and the tradition says it meets a crisis with its voice: it jokes, asks six questions and changes the subject until the pressure thins. Cancer, a cardinal water sign, answers to the Moon, and the same tradition says it goes inward and cooks for the people it loves.

Each sign gets a fault to go with the method. Gemini is accused of deflecting, treating a serious talk as one more topic. Cancer is accused of sulking behind its shell and keeping score of old hurts. Both are described as quick to notice a change in the room, Gemini by hearing it and Cancer by feeling it.

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

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

The year ahead for both sides of June 20: Gemini horoscope 2027 · Cancer horoscope 2027.

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

When did June 20 stop being Gemini all day?

Not until 1988. Nothing from 1930 through 1987 ever put Cancer on this date: in every one of those years the whole of June 20 stayed Gemini. Then the solstice slid onto the evening of June 20 in a leap year, and that has kept happening in leap years since.

In the 2020s so far there are 2 Gemini-only years and 4 years with a Cancer evening. 2022 and 2023 give the old answer, while 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025 do not.

What time is the June solstice on June 20?

Evening, mostly. Of the 12 Eastern years, 10 had the solstice after 6 p.m. and 2 between noon and 6 p.m.; none had it earlier, which keeps every June 20 morning in Gemini. The range stretches from 4:50 p.m. (2024) to 11:56 p.m. (1988).

For 2026 the solstice falls at 4:25 a.m. Eastern on Jun 21, 2026, which leaves June 20 untouched by Cancer.

Does time zone change the June 20 answer?

Yes. The West Coast clock runs three hours behind, which gives 19 Pacific years with a Cancer evening on June 20 against 12 Eastern ones. In some years the solstice reaches the West Coast before midnight and the East Coast after it.

Seven years work this way: 1976, 1980 and 1984, then 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017. A Los Angeles baby born late on June 20 in any of them is a Cancer, while a New York baby born that same instant was already on June 21.

Questions about the June 20 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.