May 20 Zodiac Sign

May 20 by year

Where a row shows Gemini, the clock time beside it is the dividing line: an earlier birth on May 20 is Taurus, a birth at that minute or after it is Gemini. Taurus with no second sign means the Sun was still in Taurus when the date ended.

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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.

Taurus and Gemini: the two signs of May 20

Astrologers read Taurus and Gemini very differently when things go wrong. Taurus, a fixed earth sign under Venus, is pictured by the tradition as slow to alarm and slower still to change course: it digs in, keeps the routine running and waits for the trouble to pass. Stubbornness is the usual complaint, steadiness the usual credit. Gemini is a mutable air sign ruled by Mercury, read as the sign that answers a problem by talking it through, collecting information and trying a second angle before the first has failed.

The tradition names a cost for each habit. A pressured Taurus is said to defend a position long after it stops working, wanting comfort restored before anything else. A pressured Gemini is said to scatter, with five half-started fixes and no single one finished.

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

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

The year ahead for both sides of May 20: Taurus horoscope 2027 · Gemini horoscope 2027.

How often Taurus and Gemini come up among birth dates from 1930 to 2025, and why websites name different signs for the same day: zodiac sign statistics. Where Taurus stands among Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn: earth signs.Gemini and the two other signs of its element: air signs.

Is May 20 mostly Taurus?

Gemini arrived before May 20 ended in 36 years, but never early enough to take the whole day: 0 whole-day Gemini years in Eastern time, 0 in Pacific. Taurus kept the entire date for 60 Eastern years.

In the 1930s Taurus held the date to the last minute in 10 years out of 10, while the 2010s had Gemini appear before midnight in 7 out of 10. And every leap year from 1948 on is a split year in our Eastern count.

Which time zone puts May 20 in Gemini?

Pacific time gives Gemini more of the day. On average Gemini covers 14.8% of May 20 on the West Coast and 9.3% on the East Coast, because the same moment reads three hours earlier in Los Angeles. The Sun enters Gemini during May 20 in 48 Pacific years, against 36 Eastern ones.

The two coasts disagree about the day itself in 12 years. In 1932, 1969 and 2006, for instance, New York stayed Taurus to the end while Los Angeles reached Gemini before midnight. The 2027 crossing reads 2:17 a.m. in New York (May 21, 2027) and 11:17 p.m. on the West Coast (May 20, 2027).

May 20 birth time: when Gemini starts

Take a newborn in a Manhattan hospital at dinnertime on May 20, 2026. That child is a Taurus: the Sun does not reach Gemini until 8:37 p.m. Eastern that night, with West Coast clocks at 5:37 p.m.

Evening is the usual hour. Of the 36 split years in the Eastern count, 19 had the change in the evening hours, 13 through the afternoon, and 4 landed before noon. Overnight changes never happened. The earliest crossing came at 8:59 a.m. (2024), the latest at 11:57 p.m. (1948).

Questions about the May 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.