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Boundary date · 39 switches since 1930
August 23 zodiac sign: Virgo or Leo?
The August 23 zodiac sign is Virgo in 64% of years from 1930 to 2029 and Leo in 36% — the date sits on a sign boundary, so the honest answer needs your birth year.
- Sun sign
- Virgo 64% of years · Leo 36%
- US births a day
- 12,011 #45 of 366 dates
- Day of the year
- 235th 236th in leap years
- Sign changes 2027
- 8:14 AM UTC Aug 23, into Virgo
Births: US Social Security Administration 2000–2014. Sun: NASA JPL DE440.
Exact times
August 23 2027: the exact sign change in your city
In 2027 the Sun enters Virgo at 8:14 AM UTC on August 23 — 4:14 AM in Santiago, 4:14 AM in New York, 9:14 AM in London and 5:14 PM in Tokyo. Born on August 23 2027 before that moment, a baby is Leo; after it, Virgo.
| City | Sun enters Virgo |
|---|---|
| UTC | Mon, Aug 23 |
| Honolulu United States | 10:14 PM Sun, Aug 22 · UTC−10 |
| Anchorage United States | 12:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−8 |
| Los Angeles United States | 1:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−7 |
| Phoenix United States | 1:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−7 |
| Denver United States | 2:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−6 |
| Chicago United States | 3:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−5 |
| Mexico City Mexico | 2:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−6 |
| New York United States | 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 |
| Toronto Canada | 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 |
| Bogotá Colombia | 3:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−5 |
| Lima Peru | 3:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−5 |
| Caracas Venezuela | 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 |
| Santiago Chile | 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 |
| Buenos Aires Argentina | 5:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−3 |
| São Paulo Brazil | 5:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−3 |
| Reykjavík Iceland | 8:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC |
| London United Kingdom | 9:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+1 |
| Lagos Nigeria | 9:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+1 |
| Paris France | 10:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+2 |
| Berlin Germany | 10:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+2 |
| Johannesburg South Africa | 10:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+2 |
| Cairo Egypt | 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 |
| Athens Greece | 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 |
| Istanbul Turkey | 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 |
| Moscow Russia | 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 |
| Nairobi Kenya | 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 |
| Tehran Iran | 11:44 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3:30 |
| Dubai United Arab Emirates | 12:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+4 |
| Karachi Pakistan | 1:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+5 |
| New Delhi India | 1:44 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+5:30 |
| Kathmandu Nepal | 1:59 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+5:45 |
| Dhaka Bangladesh | 2:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+6 |
| Bangkok Thailand | 3:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+7 |
| Jakarta Indonesia | 3:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+7 |
| Singapore | 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 |
| Beijing China | 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 |
| Manila Philippines | 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 |
| Perth Australia | 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 |
| Seoul South Korea | 5:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+9 |
| Tokyo Japan | 5:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+9 |
| Adelaide Australia | 5:44 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+9:30 |
| Brisbane Australia | 6:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+10 |
| Sydney Australia | 6:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+10 |
| Auckland New Zealand | 8:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+12 |
Sun’s ingress from the NASA JPL DE440 ephemeris; Swiss Ephemeris agrees within 5 seconds. Local times: IANA time zones, to the minute.
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How common is this birthday
August 23 among the 366 days
August 23 averages 12,011 births a day in the US — the 45th most common of the 366 dates, 5.8% above the average day. The deep dips are holidays.
Which sign, by birth year
- Virgo at midday UTC
- Leo at midday UTC
- Sign changed during the day (UTC)
- 2026
Virgo at midday UTC in 64 years and Leo in 36: 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934 … 1999, 2003, 2007. In 76 of the years — dotted — the Sun entered Virgo during August 23 itself, so a birth that day can be either sign depending on the hour.
- Virgo
- Leo
- 2026
The bar is the whole of August 23 in UTC; where its color changes, the Sun crossed into Virgo, so a birth after that minute is Virgo. The time on the right is that minute.
- 11 of these 21 years had the change inside August 23 itself, so the hour of birth decides — from as early as 12:48 AM UTC in 2034 to as late as 10:37 AM in 2015.
- In 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2028, 2029, 2032 and 2033 the whole day was already Virgo: the crossing came on August 22.
- Two sites can give two different signs for August 23 because both print a fixed range, and no fixed range is right in every year — the noon sign here flipped 39 times between 1930 and 2029.
Sun-ruled decan of Virgo
Decan
1 of 3 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler
Sun
Sign ruler
Mercury
Sun at noon, 2026
0°23′
August 23 opens Virgo in 2026: the Sun crossed in at 2:19 AM UTC on August 23, and the Sun decan that starts here lasts until September 2.
The Sun lends visibility and self-assertion, so this stretch reads more openly ambitious than the rest. In its first ten degrees Virgo shows in its rawest form: Leo has only just handed over, and nothing of the new sign has worn down yet.
Personality
August 23 birthday personality
People born on August 23 are Virgo in most years, and the sign is read as precision, usefulness and noticing what is off. Spots the flaw everyone else missed, and fixes it rather than pointing at it.
The 23rd reduces to 5 and joins 2 (empathy) with 3 (expression). Numerologists read it as freedom with a strong social sense: those born on this day love variety, travel and change, but they also read people well and communicate easily. Birthday number 23 in full →
At work
Exceptional where accuracy matters. Struggles to delegate and to stop editing.
Stone and flower
The August birthstones are peridot and spinel (yellow-green), and the month's flowers are the gladiolus and poppy.
Look up your birth year
Every year, computed
All 100 years for August 23. Each row is calculated for that exact day — sun position, life path, the Moon's sign and nakshatra, and which planets were retrograde. Find your year.
| Year | Sun | Life path | Moon | Nakshatra | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Leo 29.62° | 8 | Leo | Ashlesha 4 | Saturn |
| 1931 | Leo 29.39° | 9 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1932 | Virgo 0.12° | 1 | Taurus | Krittika 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1933 | Leo 29.88° | 2 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 3 | Saturn |
| 1934 | Leo 29.66° | 3 | Aquarius | Shravana 3 | Saturn |
| 1935 | Leo 29.42° | 22 | Gemini | Mrigashira 4 | Venus Saturn |
| 1936 | Virgo 0.15° | 5 | Scorpio | Swati 4 | Saturn |
| 1937 | Leo 29.92° | 6 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1938 | Leo 29.69° | 7 | Leo | Pushya 2 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 1939 | Leo 29.46° | 8 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | Mars Jupiter Saturn |
| 1940 | Virgo 0.18° | 9 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | — |
| 1941 | Leo 29.95° | 1 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 1 | — |
| 1942 | Leo 29.72° | 2 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | — |
| 1943 | Leo 29.48° | 3 | Gemini | Rohini 2 | Venus |
| 1944 | Virgo 0.21° | 22 | Libra | Chitra 2 | — |
| 1945 | Leo 29.98° | 5 | Aquarius | Shatabhisha 1 | Mercury |
| 1946 | Leo 29.74° | 6 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | — |
| 1947 | Leo 29.51° | 7 | Scorpio | Anuradha 1 | — |
| 1948 | Virgo 0.24° | 8 | Aries | Revati 1 | — |
| 1949 | Virgo 0.01° | 9 | Leo | Ashlesha 4 | Jupiter |
| 1950 | Leo 29.78° | 1 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 1 | Jupiter |
| 1951 | Leo 29.55° | 2 | Taurus | Bharani 4 | Mercury Venus Jupiter |
| 1952 | Virgo 0.28° | 3 | Libra | Uttara Phalguni 4 | — |
| 1953 | Virgo 0.05° | 22 | Aquarius | Shravana 3 | — |
| 1954 | Leo 29.82° | 5 | Gemini | Mrigashira 4 | — |
| 1955 | Leo 29.59° | 6 | Scorpio | Swati 3 | — |
| 1956 | Virgo 0.31° | 7 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 3 | Mars |
| 1957 | Virgo 0.08° | 8 | Leo | Pushya 2 | — |
| 1958 | Leo 29.85° | 9 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 4 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1959 | Leo 29.61° | 1 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | Venus Saturn |
| 1960 | Virgo 0.34° | 2 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 2 | Saturn |
| 1961 | Virgo 0.11° | 3 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1962 | Leo 29.87° | 22 | Gemini | Rohini 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1963 | Leo 29.64° | 5 | Libra | Chitra 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1964 | Virgo 0.37° | 6 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 2 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1965 | Virgo 0.13° | 7 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1966 | Leo 29.91° | 8 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 3 | Saturn |
| 1967 | Leo 29.67° | 9 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 4 | Venus Saturn |
| 1968 | Virgo 0.4° | 1 | Leo | Magha 1 | Saturn |
| 1969 | Virgo 0.17° | 2 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | Saturn |
| 1970 | Leo 29.94° | 3 | Taurus | Krittika 2 | — |
| 1971 | Leo 29.71° | 22 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 3 | Mercury Mars |
| 1972 | Virgo 0.44° | 5 | Aquarius | Shravana 4 | Jupiter |
| 1973 | Virgo 0.21° | 6 | Gemini | Mrigashira 4 | Jupiter |
| 1974 | Leo 29.98° | 7 | Scorpio | Vishakha 1 | Jupiter |
| 1975 | Leo 29.74° | 8 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 2 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1976 | Virgo 0.47° | 9 | Leo | Pushya 3 | — |
| 1977 | Virgo 0.24° | 1 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | Mercury |
| 1978 | Virgo 0° | 2 | Taurus | Ashwini 4 | Mercury |
| 1979 | Leo 29.77° | 3 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 1 | — |
| 1980 | Virgo 0.49° | 22 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | — |
| 1981 | Virgo 0.26° | 5 | Gemini | Rohini 3 | — |
| 1982 | Virgo 0.03° | 6 | Libra | Chitra 3 | — |
| 1983 | Leo 29.79° | 7 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 4 | Venus |
| 1984 | Virgo 0.52° | 8 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1985 | Virgo 0.3° | 9 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 3 | Jupiter |
| 1986 | Virgo 0.06° | 1 | Aries | Revati 2 | Jupiter |
| 1987 | Leo 29.83° | 2 | Leo | Ashlesha 3 | Jupiter |
| 1988 | Virgo 0.57° | 3 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | Saturn |
| 1989 | Virgo 0.33° | 22 | Taurus | Krittika 2 | Saturn |
| 1990 | Virgo 0.11° | 5 | Libra | Hasta 1 | Saturn |
| 1991 | Leo 29.87° | 6 | Aquarius | Shravana 2 | Mercury Venus Saturn |
| 1992 | Virgo 0.6° | 7 | Gemini | Mrigashira 3 | Saturn |
| 1993 | Virgo 0.37° | 8 | Scorpio | Vishakha 2 | Saturn |
| 1994 | Virgo 0.13° | 9 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | Saturn |
| 1995 | Leo 29.9° | 1 | Cancer | Pushya 1 | Saturn |
| 1996 | Virgo 0.63° | 2 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1997 | Virgo 0.39° | 3 | Taurus | Bharani 1 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 1998 | Virgo 0.16° | 22 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 3 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 1999 | Leo 29.93° | 5 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 4 | Venus |
| 2000 | Virgo 0.65° | 6 | Gemini | Rohini 2 | — |
| 2001 | Virgo 0.42° | 7 | Scorpio | Swati 1 | — |
| 2002 | Virgo 0.19° | 8 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 2 | — |
| 2003 | Leo 29.95° | 9 | Cancer | Ardra 3 | Mars |
| 2004 | Virgo 0.69° | 1 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 2 | Mercury |
| 2005 | Virgo 0.45° | 2 | Aries | Revati 4 | — |
| 2006 | Virgo 0.23° | 3 | Leo | Magha 1 | — |
| 2007 | Leo 29.99° | 22 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Venus |
| 2008 | Virgo 0.72° | 5 | Taurus | Krittika 2 | Jupiter |
| 2009 | Virgo 0.5° | 6 | Libra | Hasta 3 | Jupiter |
| 2010 | Virgo 0.26° | 7 | Aquarius | Shravana 4 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 2011 | Virgo 0.03° | 8 | Gemini | Mrigashira 1 | Mercury |
| 2012 | Virgo 0.76° | 9 | Scorpio | Vishakha 1 | — |
| 2013 | Virgo 0.52° | 1 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | — |
| 2014 | Virgo 0.29° | 2 | Leo | Pushya 4 | — |
| 2015 | Virgo 0.06° | 3 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 4 | Venus |
| 2016 | Virgo 0.78° | 22 | Taurus | Bharani 1 | — |
| 2017 | Virgo 0.55° | 5 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 2018 | Virgo 0.32° | 6 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 3 | Mars Saturn |
| 2019 | Virgo 0.08° | 7 | Taurus | Krittika 3 | Saturn |
| 2020 | Virgo 0.81° | 8 | Scorpio | Swati 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2021 | Virgo 0.58° | 9 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2022 | Virgo 0.35° | 1 | Cancer | Punarvasu 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2023 | Virgo 0.12° | 2 | Scorpio | Vishakha 2 | Venus Saturn |
| 2024 | Virgo 0.85° | 3 | Aries | Revati 4 | Mercury Saturn |
| 2025 | Virgo 0.62° | 22 | Virgo | Magha 3 | Saturn |
| 2026 | Virgo 0.39° | 5 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | Saturn |
| 2027 | Virgo 0.15° | 6 | Taurus | Bharani 1 | Saturn |
| 2028 | Virgo 0.88° | 7 | Libra | Hasta 3 | Saturn |
| 2029 | Virgo 0.65° | 8 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 2 | — |
The Moon and nakshatra columns change every year because the Moon returns to the same calendar date in a different position — which is why a birth date alone cannot tell you those, and why this table exists.
A century of August 23
Day of the year
236 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in
20 of 100 years
(20%)
Latest of those, to 2029
1998, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2024
Full moon fell on this date in
5 years — 1945, 1964, 1983, 2002, 2029
Most frequent moon phase
Waxing Gibbous · 20 years
Counted for August 23 alone, at noon UTC in each year from 1930 to 2029. Why the counts differ from date to date →
Year by year
2006
Virgo
life path 3
2007
Leo
life path 22
2008
Virgo
life path 5
2009
Virgo
life path 6
2010
Virgo
life path 7
2011
Virgo
life path 8
2012
Virgo
life path 9
2013
Virgo
life path 1
2014
Virgo
life path 2
2015
Virgo
life path 3
2016
Virgo
life path 22
2017
Virgo
life path 5
2018
Virgo
life path 6
2019
Virgo
life path 7
2020
Virgo
life path 8
2021
Virgo
life path 9
2022
Virgo
life path 1
2023
Virgo
life path 2
2024
Virgo
life path 3
2025
Virgo
life path 22
2026
Virgo
life path 5
2027
Virgo
life path 6
2028
Virgo
life path 7
2029
Virgo
life path 8
The sign changes from one year to the next in some of these tiles — that is the boundary at work.
Life path numbers this date produces
8
12 years · 12%
9
11 years · 11%
1
11 years · 11%
2
11 years · 11%
3
11 years · 11%
22
11 years · 11%
5
11 years · 11%
6
11 years · 11%
7
11 years · 11%
The most frequent is 8 with 12 years; every other number, 22 included, turns up in 11 years. And this date can carry a master number: 22 in 11 of those years — kept whole rather than reduced. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →
Why the answer moves
There is no third sign and no blend — at your moment of birth the Sun was one side of the boundary or the other. For August 23 that came out Virgo in 64% of years and Leo in 36%. The noon sign switched 39 times between 1930 and 2029; the last three switches fall in 2004, 2007 and 2008.
Questions about August 23 birthdays
What zodiac sign is August 23?
Usually Virgo: 64% of years from 1930 to 2029. In the other 36% of years (the last of them 2007) the Sun was still in Leo at midday UTC, and in 76 of the 100 years it changed sign during the day itself, so the birth hour decides.
What life path numbers does August 23 produce?
Across 100 birth years the most common is 8 (12 years); every other number appears in 11 years.
Which decan is August 23?
In 2026, the 1st decan of Virgo, 0° to 10°, sub-ruled by the Sun in the Chaldean order.
Can August 23 be a master number birth date?
Yes — 22, in 11 of the 100 years: 1935, 1944, 1953, 1962, 1971, 1980, 1989, 1998, 2007, 2016 and 2025.
Cite this page
AstroHot. “August 23 Zodiac Sign: Virgo or Leo? It Depends on Your Year.” Accessed October 28, 2026. https://astrohot.com/birthday/august-23/
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