In love
Shows love through practical help. Criticism is often affection badly aimed.
Settled date · day 4 of 31 in the sign
August 26 zodiac sign: Virgo
The August 26 zodiac sign is Virgo in every year from 1930 to 2029: on that date the Sun stands 3°16′ into the sign, 3 days past its start and 27 days before Libra begins.
- Sun sign
- Virgo at noon in every year 1930–2029
- US births a day
- 11,644 #104 of 366 dates
- Day of the year
- 238th 239th in leap years
- Sun at noon 2026
- 3°16′ of Virgo
Births: US Social Security Administration 2000–2014. Sun: NASA JPL DE440.
How common is this birthday
August 26 among the 366 days
August 26 averages 11,644 births a day in the US — the 104th most common of the 366 dates, 2.6% above the average day. The deep dips are holidays.
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Where in Virgo this falls
August 26 falls on day 4 of the Sun decan (August 23–September 2, 2026).
Sun-ruled decan of Virgo
Decan
1 of 3 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler
Sun
Sign ruler
Mercury
Sun at noon, 2026
3°16′
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 26 birthday personality
People born on August 26 are Virgo, 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 26th reduces to 8 and combines 2 (cooperation) with 6 (responsibility). Numerologists read it as management with a human touch: those born on this day have business sense and ambition but also care about the people involved. Birthday number 26 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 26. 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 | Virgo 2.52° | 2 | Libra | Hasta 1 | Saturn |
| 1931 | Virgo 2.28° | 3 | Aquarius | Shravana 4 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1932 | Virgo 3.01° | 22 | Gemini | Mrigashira 4 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1933 | Virgo 2.78° | 5 | Scorpio | Swati 3 | Saturn |
| 1934 | Virgo 2.55° | 6 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | Saturn |
| 1935 | Virgo 2.32° | 7 | Leo | Pushya 3 | Venus Saturn |
| 1936 | Virgo 3.05° | 8 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | Saturn |
| 1937 | Virgo 2.81° | 9 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1938 | Virgo 2.58° | 1 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 4 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 1939 | Virgo 2.35° | 11 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1940 | Virgo 3.08° | 3 | Gemini | Rohini 2 | — |
| 1941 | Virgo 2.84° | 22 | Libra | Chitra 2 | — |
| 1942 | Virgo 2.61° | 5 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 3 | — |
| 1943 | Virgo 2.38° | 6 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | Venus |
| 1944 | Virgo 3.11° | 7 | Scorpio | Anuradha 1 | Mercury |
| 1945 | Virgo 2.87° | 8 | Aries | Revati 2 | Mercury |
| 1946 | Virgo 2.64° | 9 | Leo | Magha 2 | — |
| 1947 | Virgo 2.41° | 1 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | — |
| 1948 | Virgo 3.13° | 11 | Taurus | Bharani 4 | — |
| 1949 | Virgo 2.9° | 3 | Libra | Hasta 1 | Jupiter |
| 1950 | Virgo 2.68° | 22 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 1 | Jupiter |
| 1951 | Virgo 2.44° | 5 | Gemini | Mrigashira 3 | Mercury Venus Jupiter |
| 1952 | Virgo 3.17° | 6 | Scorpio | Swati 3 | — |
| 1953 | Virgo 2.94° | 7 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | — |
| 1954 | Virgo 2.71° | 8 | Leo | Pushya 4 | — |
| 1955 | Virgo 2.48° | 9 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 2 | — |
| 1956 | Virgo 3.21° | 1 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Mars |
| 1957 | Virgo 2.97° | 11 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 4 | — |
| 1958 | Virgo 2.74° | 3 | Aquarius | Uttara Ashadha 4 | Mercury |
| 1959 | Virgo 2.5° | 22 | Gemini | Rohini 1 | Venus Saturn |
| 1960 | Virgo 3.23° | 5 | Libra | Chitra 2 | Saturn |
| 1961 | Virgo 3° | 6 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1962 | Virgo 2.77° | 7 | Cancer | Punarvasu 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1963 | Virgo 2.53° | 8 | Scorpio | Vishakha 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1964 | Virgo 3.26° | 9 | Aries | Revati 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1965 | Virgo 3.03° | 1 | Leo | Magha 2 | Saturn |
| 1966 | Virgo 2.8° | 11 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 2 | Saturn |
| 1967 | Virgo 2.56° | 3 | Taurus | Bharani 3 | Venus Saturn |
| 1968 | Virgo 3.3° | 22 | Libra | Hasta 1 | Saturn |
| 1969 | Virgo 3.07° | 5 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 2 | Saturn |
| 1970 | Virgo 2.83° | 6 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | — |
| 1971 | Virgo 2.6° | 7 | Scorpio | Swati 1 | Mercury Mars |
| 1972 | Virgo 3.33° | 8 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | — |
| 1973 | Virgo 3.1° | 9 | Leo | Ashlesha 1 | Jupiter |
| 1974 | Virgo 2.87° | 1 | Sagittarius | Mula 1 | Jupiter |
| 1975 | Virgo 2.64° | 11 | Aries | Ashwini 1 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1976 | Virgo 3.37° | 3 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 4 | — |
| 1977 | Virgo 3.13° | 22 | Aquarius | Uttara Ashadha 4 | Mercury |
| 1978 | Virgo 2.9° | 5 | Gemini | Rohini 4 | Mercury |
| 1979 | Virgo 2.66° | 6 | Libra | Hasta 4 | — |
| 1980 | Virgo 3.39° | 7 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 3 | — |
| 1981 | Virgo 3.15° | 8 | Cancer | Punarvasu 4 | — |
| 1982 | Virgo 2.92° | 9 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 3 | — |
| 1983 | Virgo 2.69° | 1 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 3 | Venus |
| 1984 | Virgo 3.42° | 11 | Leo | Magha 2 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1985 | Virgo 3.19° | 3 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 3 | Jupiter |
| 1986 | Virgo 2.96° | 22 | Taurus | Krittika 1 | Jupiter |
| 1987 | Virgo 2.73° | 5 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 2 | Jupiter |
| 1988 | Virgo 3.46° | 6 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 1 | Saturn |
| 1989 | Virgo 3.22° | 7 | Cancer | Ardra 3 | Saturn |
| 1990 | Virgo 3° | 8 | Scorpio | Swati 4 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1991 | Virgo 2.76° | 9 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 1 | Mercury Venus Saturn |
| 1992 | Virgo 3.49° | 1 | Leo | Ashlesha 1 | Saturn |
| 1993 | Virgo 3.26° | 11 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Saturn |
| 1994 | Virgo 3.02° | 3 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Saturn |
| 1995 | Virgo 2.79° | 22 | Virgo | Magha 4 | Saturn |
| 1996 | Virgo 3.52° | 5 | Aquarius | Uttara Ashadha 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1997 | Virgo 3.28° | 6 | Gemini | Mrigashira 1 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 1998 | Virgo 3.06° | 7 | Libra | Chitra 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1999 | Virgo 2.82° | 8 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 3 | Venus Jupiter |
| 2000 | Virgo 3.54° | 9 | Cancer | Punarvasu 3 | — |
| 2001 | Virgo 3.32° | 1 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 1 | — |
| 2002 | Virgo 3.08° | 2 | Aries | Revati 1 | — |
| 2003 | Virgo 2.85° | 3 | Leo | Ashlesha 3 | Mars |
| 2004 | Virgo 3.58° | 22 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 3 | Mercury |
| 2005 | Virgo 3.34° | 5 | Gemini | Krittika 4 | — |
| 2006 | Virgo 3.12° | 6 | Libra | Uttara Phalguni 4 | — |
| 2007 | Virgo 2.89° | 7 | Aquarius | Shravana 2 | Venus |
| 2008 | Virgo 3.62° | 8 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | Jupiter |
| 2009 | Virgo 3.39° | 9 | Scorpio | Vishakha 3 | Jupiter |
| 2010 | Virgo 3.16° | 1 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 3 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 2011 | Virgo 2.92° | 2 | Cancer | Pushya 1 | Mercury |
| 2012 | Virgo 3.65° | 3 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | — |
| 2013 | Virgo 3.41° | 22 | Taurus | Bharani 2 | — |
| 2014 | Virgo 3.18° | 5 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 2 | — |
| 2015 | Virgo 2.95° | 6 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 4 | Venus |
| 2016 | Virgo 3.67° | 7 | Gemini | Mrigashira 2 | — |
| 2017 | Virgo 3.44° | 8 | Scorpio | Swati 1 | Mercury |
| 2018 | Virgo 3.21° | 9 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 1 | Mars Saturn |
| 2019 | Virgo 2.97° | 1 | Cancer | Ardra 3 | Saturn |
| 2020 | Virgo 3.71° | 2 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2021 | Virgo 3.47° | 3 | Aries | Revati 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2022 | Virgo 3.24° | 22 | Leo | Ashlesha 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2023 | Virgo 3.01° | 5 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Mercury Venus Saturn |
| 2024 | Virgo 3.74° | 6 | Gemini | Rohini 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 2025 | Virgo 3.51° | 7 | Libra | Hasta 3 | Saturn |
| 2026 | Virgo 3.28° | 8 | Aquarius | Shravana 3 | Saturn |
| 2027 | Virgo 3.04° | 9 | Gemini | Mrigashira 2 | Saturn |
| 2028 | Virgo 3.78° | 1 | Scorpio | Vishakha 4 | Saturn |
| 2029 | Virgo 3.54° | 2 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 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 26
Day of the year
239 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in
21 of 100 years
(21%)
Latest of those, to 2029
2004, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2023, 2024
Full moon fell on this date in
5 years — 1942, 1961, 1980, 1999, 2018
Most frequent moon phase
Waxing Gibbous · 21 years
Counted for August 26 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 6
2007
Virgo
life path 7
2008
Virgo
life path 8
2009
Virgo
life path 9
2010
Virgo
life path 1
2011
Virgo
life path 2
2012
Virgo
life path 3
2013
Virgo
life path 22
2014
Virgo
life path 5
2015
Virgo
life path 6
2016
Virgo
life path 7
2017
Virgo
life path 8
2018
Virgo
life path 9
2019
Virgo
life path 1
2020
Virgo
life path 2
2021
Virgo
life path 3
2022
Virgo
life path 22
2023
Virgo
life path 5
2024
Virgo
life path 6
2025
Virgo
life path 7
2026
Virgo
life path 8
2027
Virgo
life path 9
2028
Virgo
life path 1
2029
Virgo
life path 2
The sign is the same in every tile; only the life path number moves.
Life path numbers this date produces
3
11 years · 11%
22
11 years · 11%
5
11 years · 11%
6
11 years · 11%
7
11 years · 11%
8
11 years · 11%
9
11 years · 11%
1
11 years · 11%
11
7 years · 7%
2
5 years · 5%
The most frequent is 3 with 11 years, tied with 7 other numbers; the scarcest is 2 with just 5. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 7 of those years, 22 in 11 of those years — kept whole rather than reduced. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →
Questions about August 26 birthdays
What zodiac sign is August 26?
Virgo in all 100 years from 1930 to 2029: the Sun stands at 3°16′ Virgo on August 26, 3 days after the sign begins and 27 before Libra takes over.
What life path numbers does August 26 produce?
Across 100 birth years the most common is 3 (11 years, tied with 7 other numbers); the rarest is 2 (5).
Which decan is August 26?
The 1st decan of Virgo, 0° to 10°, sub-ruled by the Sun in the Chaldean order.
Can August 26 be a master number birth date?
Yes — 11, in 7 of the 100 years: 1939, 1948, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1984 and 1993; 22, in 11 of the 100 years: 1932, 1941, 1950, 1959, 1968, 1977, 1986, 1995, 2004, 2013 and 2022.
Cite this page
AstroHot. “August 26 Zodiac Sign: Virgo, and Why It Never Changes.” Accessed October 28, 2026. https://astrohot.com/birthday/august-26/
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