February Zodiac Sign: Aquarius or Pisces?

Is February 18 Aquarius or Pisces? The two border days

Number of years out of 96, 1930 to 2025, US Eastern time; Pacific time in brackets. Every other day of February was the same sign in all 96 years in both time zones.

Your birth year. In US Eastern time the Sun entered Pisces on February 19 in these 42 years: 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016. In every other year from 1930 to 2025 it entered on February 18. So if your year is on the list, February 18 was Aquarius all day and February 19 turned Pisces during the day. If it is not, February 18 turned Pisces during the day and February 19 was Pisces all day. In Pacific time the change came three hours earlier on the clock. The calendar above gives the exact minute for your year.

February 18 is split almost evenly. It stayed Aquarius to midnight for 42 years, carried the change for 54, and never opened as Pisces. February 19 mirrors it: no year gave Aquarius all day, 54 gave Pisces all day, and the rest began with some Aquarius hours. On a Pacific clock the change lands on the 18th in 66 years, so California tips further toward Pisces.

Every year from 1930 to 2030 with the minute of the change: February 18 zodiac sign by year · February 19 zodiac sign by year.

February Aquarius: born February 1 to 18

February Aquarians sit mostly in the back half of the sign. The tradition makes it fixed air, with Saturn as classical ruler and Uranus as modern ruler. Fixed signs hold a course and air signs live on ideas, so astrologers picture someone who stays loyal to a principle long after it stops being popular. Aquarius is also where the Sun is in detriment, which the tradition reads as a Sun working less easily here.

No February birthday belongs to the first decan of Aquarius. The first eight days belong to the second decan, ruled by Mercury in both the classical faces and modern lists, and February 9 through 18 belongs to the third, the Moon's in the faces and Venus's in modern lists. Whether the 20° mark lands on February 9 (52 years) or on February 8 decides where the decan changes.

February Pisces: born February 19 to 28

For a February birthday, Pisces has barely begun. The tradition makes the sign mutable water. Jupiter is the classical ruler, Neptune the modern one, and Venus is exalted here. Mutable means adapting, so the usual picture is a sensitive person who takes on the mood of the room.

The first decan, Saturn's in the faces and Neptune's in modern lists, covers nearly every February Pisces. Only the final day or two cross over: 60 of the counted years put 10° of Pisces inside February 28; the other years put it on February 29 or in March. A leap-day birth is second decan, held by Jupiter in the faces and by the Moon in modern lists.

February birthdays by decan

A decan is a 10° third of a sign, about ten days of the calendar. This is where each February birthday falls, with the Sun's position at noon:

Most common decan at noon US Eastern time, 1930 to 2025. Days where the answer changed with the year: February 8, February 9, February 18, February 19, February 28. Classical rulers from the table of faces (Chaldean order, as in Lilly's Christian Astrology); modern rulers as listed in Wikipedia's "Decan (astrology)".

Why the Aquarius–Pisces change moves from year to year

Across the decades the change has moved from the 19th to the 18th. In the 1930s February 19 held the change in 8 years, and in the 2010s in 2; between 2020 and 2025 it never did. From 1988 only leap years kept the 19th, ending with 2016; the leap year 2020 already fell on the 18th. February 18 climbed the other way, from 2 years in the 1930s to 8 in the 1990s.

February 29 comes after the change, so the leap day shifts every later moment of that year, and the leap year itself is the latest in its four-year cycle. The year after a leap year resets about 18 hours earlier, then each of the next three arrives about six hours later, ending with the leap year, and overall the change drifts earlier. The Pacific clock reads three hours less: Seattle sees the Sun enter Pisces on the 18th in 66 years, Boston in 54.

In 2026 the Sun crossed into Pisces on February 18, when a New York clock read 10:51 a.m. and 7:51 a.m. on a Los Angeles one. In 2027 the date is the same, with New York clocks showing 4:33 p.m. In leap year 2028 the time becomes 10:25 p.m., still February 18 and close to midnight.

When the Sun entered Pisces, 2021 to 2030

Moment the Sun reached 0° Pisces, from the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac), rounded to the minute, with that year's daylight saving time.

How much of February belongs to each sign

February is the short month, so Aquarius takes about 17.9 of its days and Pisces just 10.3. Pisces reaches only 10° to 11° by the final night, leaving most of that sign for March.

Days counted to the minute from midnight February 1 to midnight after February 28 (29 in leap years), US Eastern time, 1930 to 2025. Shortest Pisces share: 9.6 days (1931); longest: 11.03 days (2024).

Aquarius and Pisces side by side: symbol, element, ruler

Fixed air next to mutable water: a sign that holds its position gives way to one that flows around it. The rulers continue the pattern. Saturn and Uranus on one side are cool and structured; Jupiter and Neptune on the other are expansive and dissolving. The symbols link as well, since the Water-Bearer pours the water the Fish swim in. The tradition reads the month as a move from principle to feeling.

Each sign in full: Aquarius zodiac sign · Pisces zodiac sign.

Famous people born in February

Neither list includes people whose birthday is February 18 or 19, because one of those two dates carried the crossing in every year; we keep only people whose whole birthday was one sign everywhere.

♒︎ February Aquarius

• Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musicianFeb 6, 1945
• Jennifer Aniston, American actressFeb 11, 1969
• Michael Jordan, American basketball player and businessmanFeb 17, 1963
• Toni Morrison, African American novelist, essayist, and academicFeb 18, 1931

♓︎ February Pisces

• Kurt Cobain, American rock musician, singer and songwriterFeb 20, 1967
• Corbin Bleu, American actorFeb 21, 1989
• Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personalityFeb 22, 1962
• Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc.Feb 24, 1955
• Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actressFeb 27, 1932

Full birth charts with a recorded birth time, born in February: Shakira (February 2, Aquarius) · Paul Mescal (February 2, Aquarius) · Bob Marley (February 6, Aquarius) · James Spader (February 7, Aquarius) · James Dean (February 8, Aquarius) · Michael B. Jordan (February 9, Aquarius) · Jennifer Aniston (February 11, Aquarius) · Hudson Williams (February 13, Aquarius) · The Weeknd (February 16, Aquarius) · Michael Jordan (February 17, Aquarius) · Kurt Cobain (February 20, Pisces) · Olivia Rodrigo (February 20, Pisces) · Steve Jobs (February 24, Pisces) · Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, Pisces).

Birth dates from Wikidata, only people whose Sun was in the same sign for the whole birthday in every time zone. The chart pages use birth times on record.

February birthdays in US birth data

Social Security records for 2000 to 2014 give February 11,146 births a day, which ranks it 8th among all twelve. Its seventeen Aquarius-only days took 60.3% of the babies, the Pisces-only stretch from the 20th took 32.7%, and the two border days took 7%.

US births 2000 to 2014 from the Social Security Administration, as published by FiveThirtyEight: 4,725,693 February births. Average per day: 11,146.

Aquarius and Pisces in love

Aquarius and Pisces are neighbors in a semisextile, differing in both element and mode. The tradition expects Aquarius to keep a cool distance that Pisces reads as absence, and Pisces to want a closeness that Aquarius takes for pressure. The pair fits when each says out loud what the other cannot guess.

Gemini and Libra share Aquarius's element; Cancer and Scorpio share Pisces's. Across the complementary line, air goes with fire, giving Aquarius Aries, Leo and Sagittarius, and water goes with earth, giving Pisces Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. Treat all of it as one thread of a chart; the Moon and Venus of two people can pull against it.

Aquarius and Pisces compatibility · Aquarius and Aquarius · Pisces and Pisces · Aquarius's soulmate · Pisces's soulmate · compatibility by two birth dates

Questions about February zodiac signs

Zodiac signs of the other months

• January: Capricorn to 18, Aquarius from 22
• February: Aquarius to 17, Pisces from 20
• March: Pisces to 18, Aries from 22
• April: Aries to 18, Taurus from 21
• May: Taurus to 19, Gemini from 22
• June: Gemini to 19, Cancer from 23
• July: Cancer to 21, Leo from 24
• August: Leo to 21, Virgo from 24
• September: Virgo to 21, Libra from 24
• October: Libra to 21, Scorpio from 25
• November: Scorpio to 20, Sagittarius from 24
• December: Sagittarius to 20, Capricorn from 23

Days that are always one sign, US Eastern and Pacific time, 1930 to 2025. The days between depend on the year. All twelve months in one table: zodiac signs by month. All twelve signs with the exact change by year: zodiac sign dates. Born in February? Your Chinese zodiac animal depends on whether you came before or after Lunar New Year: Chinese zodiac sign by birth date.

Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Every date, count and share on this page comes from our own run of the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac) over 1930 to 2025, with historical US time zone rules. Traits follow the Western tradition. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science.