February is split between Aquarius, for birthdays from the 1st to the 18th, and Pisces, from the 19th to the end of the month. It is the shortest month and the only one whose length changes, and people born on 29 February are Pisces in every leap year. The move from Aquarius to Pisces is one of the sharpest contrasts in the zodiac, from the detached thinker to the sign that feels everything.

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The moment the Sun enters Pisces, for each birth year

Universal Time (UTC). Add or subtract the time zone of the birthplace.

The decans of February

Aquarius to the 18th, Pisces from the 19th

Aquarius is fixed air: clear-headed, original and sociable in a cool way, more at ease with ideas than with moods. Pisces is mutable water, the last sign of the zodiac, imaginative, sympathetic and hard to fence in. Saturn and Uranus are the planets of Aquarius, Jupiter and Neptune those of Pisces. Where the first half of February asks whether something is true and fair, the second half asks how it feels, and the two kinds of people often misread each other for exactly that reason.

The 18th and the 19th: A Coin Toss

No boundary in the year is more evenly divided than this one. In the 101 birth years from 1940 to 2040 the Sun crossed into Pisces on 19 February in 56 years and on 18 February in 45, by Universal Time. Someone born on either date cannot tell the sign from the day alone. The table lists the moment for each year; with the birth time and the time zone it gives a definite answer, and the answer is one sign or the other, never a mixture.

What the Two Halves Are Like

February Aquarians are described as the friend who remembers the principle of the thing: fair-minded, stubborn about their independence and happiest when working on a problem that matters to more than one person. February Pisceans are gentler in outline. Astrology gives them intuition, a talent for music, images and stories, and a habit of absorbing the mood of whoever is in the room, which makes time alone a necessity and not a luxury. Both halves of the month share a dislike of being told what to think.

February in the Calendar and the Sky

The name comes from Februa, a Roman festival of purification held in the middle of the month. February has 28 days and a 29th in leap years, the correction that keeps the calendar in step with the Sun and the reason sign boundaries drift and return. The birthstone is the amethyst, the flowers the violet and the primrose. It is late winter in the north and late summer in the south, and in both the evenings are noticeably changing length by the end of the month.

Frequently asked

What zodiac sign is February?

Aquarius from 1 to 18 February and Pisces from 19 February to the end of the month.

What sign is someone born on 29 February?

Pisces. The Sun has always entered Pisces by 19 February, so every leap-day birthday falls well inside the sign.

Is 19 February Aquarius or Pisces?

It depends on the year. The Sun entered Pisces on 19 February in 56 of the years from 1940 to 2040 and on the 18th in the other 45, so the hour of birth decides.

February birthdays, day by day

The two signs

Zodiac signs, month by month