2027 Forecast

January 20 – February 18 · Air · Fixed · ruled by Uranus (traditionally Saturn)

Aquarius

Aquarius covers January 20 – February 18 and is the 11th sign of the zodiac: air, fixed, ruled by Uranus (traditionally Saturn). Its keynote is independence, principle and distance from the herd. In 2026 the Sun spends 29.59 days in it — the 3rd shortest of the twelve, because the signs are not equal in length.

Sun enters 2027
Jan 20 7:30 AM UTC
Sun leaves
Feb 18 9:33 PM UTC
Season length
29.6 days 29 d 14 h 3 min
US births
7.93% 11th most common of 12

Times: NASA JPL DE440. Births: US Social Security Administration, 2000–2014.

The Aquarius man The Aquarius woman

For Aquarius today: Aquarius horoscope today, Aquarius compatibility and Aquarius birthstones.

The animal each of the twelve signs is paired with, and why the two calendars disagree: spirit animal by zodiac sign.

The same sign on the horizon instead of behind the Sun: Aquarius rising — a different reading, and one that needs a birth time.

300°–330°

Exact times

Aquarius season 2027: the exact start in your city

The Sun enters Aquarius at 7:30 AM UTC on January 20, 2027 — 4:30 AM in Santiago, 2:30 AM in New York, 7:30 AM in London and 4:30 PM in Tokyo — and leaves it for Pisces at 9:33 PM UTC on February 18, after 29 d 14 h 3 min.

City Sun enters Aquarius Sun moves on to Pisces
UTC Wed, Jan 20 Thu, Feb 18
Honolulu United States 9:30 PM Tue, Jan 19 · UTC−10 11:33 AM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−10
Anchorage United States 10:30 PM Tue, Jan 19 · UTC−9 12:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−9
Los Angeles United States 11:30 PM Tue, Jan 19 · UTC−8 1:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−8
Phoenix United States 12:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−7 2:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−7
Denver United States 12:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−7 2:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−7
Chicago United States 1:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−6 3:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−6
Mexico City Mexico 1:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−6 3:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−6
New York United States 2:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−5 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5
Toronto Canada 2:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−5 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5
Bogotá Colombia 2:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−5 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5
Lima Peru 2:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−5 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5
Caracas Venezuela 3:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−4 5:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−4
Santiago Chile 4:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−3 6:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−3
Buenos Aires Argentina 4:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−3 6:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−3
São Paulo Brazil 4:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC−3 6:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−3
Reykjavík Iceland 7:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC 9:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC
London United Kingdom 7:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC 9:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC
Lagos Nigeria 8:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+1 10:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+1
Paris France 8:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+1 10:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+1
Berlin Germany 8:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+1 10:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+1
Johannesburg South Africa 9:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+2 11:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+2
Cairo Egypt 9:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+2 11:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+2
Athens Greece 9:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+2 11:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+2
Istanbul Turkey 10:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+3 12:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3
Moscow Russia 10:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+3 12:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3
Nairobi Kenya 10:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+3 12:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3
Tehran Iran 11:00 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+3:30 1:03 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3:30
Dubai United Arab Emirates 11:30 AM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+4 1:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+4
Karachi Pakistan 12:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+5 2:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+5
New Delhi India 1:00 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+5:30 3:03 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+5:30
Kathmandu Nepal 1:15 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+5:45 3:18 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+5:45
Dhaka Bangladesh 1:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+6 3:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+6
Bangkok Thailand 2:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+7 4:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+7
Jakarta Indonesia 2:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+7 4:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+7
Singapore 3:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+8 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8
Beijing China 3:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+8 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8
Manila Philippines 3:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+8 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8
Perth Australia 3:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+8 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8
Seoul South Korea 4:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+9 6:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+9
Tokyo Japan 4:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+9 6:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+9
Adelaide Australia 6:00 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+10:30 8:03 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+10:30
Brisbane Australia 5:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+10 7:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+10
Sydney Australia 6:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+11 8:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+11
Auckland New Zealand 8:30 PM Wed, Jan 20 · UTC+13 10:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+13

Sun’s ingress from the NASA JPL DE440 ephemeris; Swiss Ephemeris agrees within 5 seconds. Local times: IANA time zones, to the minute.

DatesJanuary 20 – February 18
SymbolWater Bearer
ElementAir
ModalityFixed
Ruling planetUranus (traditionally Saturn)
House11
PolarityPositive
Lucky numbers4, 7
Lucky daySaturday
ColorElectric blue
BirthstoneAmethyst, garnet
Best matches Gemini, Libra, Aries
Hardest matches Pisces, Cancer, Virgo
Rules the bodyAnkles and circulation

Calculated, not approximated

Exact Aquarius dates for 2026

Sun enters Aquarius January 20, 1:45 AM UTC
Sun leaves Aquarius February 18, 3:52 PM UTC
Length this year 29.6 days

The usual "January 20 – February 18" is an average. The Sun enters Aquarius at 300° of ecliptic longitude, and the exact minute of that crossing — given above for the coming season — moves a little every year, which is what a boundary birthday needs.

When the Sun enters Aquarius, every year 1900–2050 (UTC)
When the Sun enters Aquarius, every year 1900–2050 (UTC) Aquarius season started as late as Jan 21, 10:57 AM UTC in 1904 and will start as early as Jan 19, 3:41 PM UTC in 2049; in 2026 it is Jan 20, 1:45 AM UTC. A common year moves the ingress about 5 h 50 min later and a leap day pulls it back about 18 h 11 min, so it saw-tooths between January 19 and 21. The season itself has run from 29 d 13 h 58 min to 29 d 14 h 31 min — a spread of 33 minutes over 151 years. Jan 19Jan 20Jan 21Jan 22latest 1904latest 1904earliest 2049earliest 2049202620261900192519501975200020252050Source: NASA JPL DE440 ephemeris, Sun’s ingress at 300°astrohot.com

Aquarius season started as late as Jan 21, 10:57 AM UTC in 1904 and will start as early as Jan 19, 3:41 PM UTC in 2049; in 2026 it is Jan 20, 1:45 AM UTC. A common year moves the ingress about 5 h 50 min later and a leap day pulls it back about 18 h 11 min, so it saw-tooths between January 19 and 21. The season itself has run from 29 d 13 h 58 min to 29 d 14 h 31 min — a spread of 33 minutes over 151 years.

Calculated from the Sun's actual motion

The zodiac signs are not equal

Aquarius lasts 29.59 days
Rank by length 10 of 12
Share of all births 7.93%
If signs were even 30.44 days · 8.33%

Aquarius runs 29.59 days in 2026 — one of the short signs the Sun crosses in the months around perihelion, when Earth moves fastest. Only just longer is Scorpio at 29.91 days; just behind is Sagittarius at 29.56.

With US births also peaking between July and September, Aquarius took 7.93% of them in 2000–2014. All twelve lengths, and why they differ, are on the zodiac dates page.

Share of US births by Sun sign, 2000–2014 — Aquarius highlighted
Share of US births by Sun sign, 2000–2014 — Aquarius highlighted Aquarius: 7.93% of the 62.2 million births, with each birth assigned by the Sun’s ingress time — the 11th most common of twelve. Leo leads with 8.96% and Capricorn trails with 7.63%. An even split would give 8.33%. LeoLeo: 8.96%8.96%VirgoVirgo: 8.94%8.94%CancerCancer: 8.84%8.84%GeminiGemini: 8.56%8.56%LibraLibra: 8.52%8.52%TaurusTaurus: 8.29%8.29%ScorpioScorpio: 8.18%8.18%AriesAries: 8.14%8.14%PiscesPisces: 8.04%8.04%SagittariusSagittarius: 7.95%7.95%AquariusAquarius: 7.93%7.93%CapricornCapricorn: 7.63%7.63%Source: US SSA births 2000–2014 via FiveThirtyEightastrohot.com

Aquarius: 7.93% of the 62.2 million births, with each birth assigned by the Sun’s ingress time — the 11th most common of twelve. Leo leads with 8.96% and Capricorn trails with 7.63%. An even split would give 8.33%.

Rarely covered

The three Aquarius decans

Ten degrees each. Modern astrologers give them to the three air signs' rulers — Uranus, Mercury and Venus; the older Chaldean order, used on our birth date pages, gives Venus, Mercury and the Moon.

Decan 1 · 0°–10°

Sub-ruler: Uranus

Double Uranus — the most original, contrary and detached.

2026: Jan 20 – Jan 29 · Chaldean order: Venus

Decan 2 · 10°–20°

Sub-ruler: Mercury

Communicative and analytical. The one who explains the idea.

2026: Jan 29 – Feb 8 · Chaldean order: Mercury

Decan 3 · 20°–30°

Sub-ruler: Venus

Warmer and more sociable. Humanitarian rather than theoretical.

2026: Feb 8 – Feb 18 · Chaldean order: Moon

Aquarius personality

Original
Detached
Principled
Contrary
Humanitarian

Strengths

Thinks for itself and cares about fairness at a scale beyond its own circle.

Weaknesses

Intellectualizes feeling, and mistakes emotional distance for objectivity.

Aquarius is the one fixed air sign — and that pairing is the whole explanation. The element sets temperament: air signs process by thinking and talking. The modality decides what happens when circumstances change: fixed signs resist it and hold their position.

No other sign is fixed air, so Aquarius cannot stand in for the other air signs — which share the temperament and divide the work between them differently.

Primary source

Why Saturn rules Aquarius, in Ptolemy’s words

Tetrabiblos, second century AD
“Saturn, therefore, since he is cold and inimical to heat, moving also in a superior orbit most remote from the luminaries, occupies the signs opposite to Cancer and Leo: these are Aquarius and Capricorn; and they are assigned to him in consideration of their cold and wintry nature; and because the configuration by opposition does not co-operate towards the production of good.”
Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, book I, chapter XX, translated by J. M. Ashmand from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus (London, 1822) — read the original text. Ptolemy wrote in Alexandria, and his reasoning is from the northern hemisphere, where Cancer and Leo are the summer signs. He knew seven planets; modern astrologers also give Aquarius to Uranus, discovered in 1781.

Primary source

What William Lilly wrote about Aquarius in 1647

The sign’s nature
“[Aquarius] is an aierial, hot and moyst Signe, of the aiery Triplicity, diurnal, sanguine, fixed, rational, humane, masculine, the principall house of [Saturn], and house wherein he most rejoyceth; Westerne.”
The person it describes
“It presents a squat, thick Corporature, or one of a strong, well composed Body, not tall; a long Visage, sanguine Complexion; if [Saturn] who is Lord of this house, be in [Capricorn] or [Aquarius], the party is black in Haire, and in Complexion sanguine, with distorted Teeth; otherwayes, I have observed the party is of cleer, white or faire Complexion, and of sandy coloured Haire, or very flaxen, and a very pure Skin.”
William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI — read the original text. Christian Astrology was the first astrology textbook of its kind printed in English rather than Latin. Lilly used these descriptions mainly for the sign rising at a birth or at the moment a question was asked; reading character from the Sun’s sign alone was popularized by newspaper horoscopes in the 1930s. Spelling and punctuation are as printed, with the long s and u/v modernized; signs and planets printed as symbols are given in square brackets.

The Aquarius man and woman

Aquarius man

Friendly and hard to reach. Intellectualizes feeling and needs a great deal of autonomy.

Aquarius woman

Original, principled and unwilling to be categorized. Friendship first, always.

Astrology gives Aquarius no gendered meaning; the two sketches follow how the sign is usually written about.

Aquarius in each area of life

In love and relationships

Values friendship inside a relationship above romance. Needs autonomy preserved.

As a friend

The one with the unusual idea and the wide circle. Present but rarely close.

At work

Strong on innovation and systems thinking. Resists hierarchy on principle.

Career that suits

Technology, science, activism, research — anywhere convention needs breaking.

With money

Erratic. Cares more about the principle than the balance.

As a child

Independent and questioning. Responds to reasons and refuses arbitrary authority.

As a parent

Progressive and open-minded. Can be emotionally distant while being entirely present.

Health and the body

Ankles and circulation — Aquarius rules them, and the sign is linked to nervous energy.

Aquarius compatibility with every sign

Ranked by the angle from Aquarius on the wheel; how the angle is read is explained on the compatibility hub.

WithAspectAngleScoreElement
Gemini Trine 120° 88% Air
Libra Trine 120° 88% Air
Aries Sextile 60° 82% Fire
Sagittarius Sextile 60° 82% Fire
Aquarius Conjunction 0° 78% Air
Leo Opposition 180° 75% Fire
Taurus Square 90° 62% Earth
Scorpio Square 90° 62% Water
Capricorn Semi-sextile 30° 58% Earth
Pisces Semi-sextile 30° 58% Water
Cancer Quincunx 150° 55% Water
Virgo Quincunx 150° 55% Earth

Famous Aquarians

Oprah Winfrey, Harry Styles, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf

Aquarius accounts for 7.93% of US births, so a list of famous Aquarians is trivia rather than evidence.

Today's horoscope Calculated from where the Moon actually is right now. This week The lunar events falling in the next seven days. Aquarius birthstone Composition, hardness and origin of each stone.

Common questions about Aquarius

What are the exact Aquarius dates?

January 20 – February 18 as usually published. In 2026 the Sun enters Aquarius on January 20 at 1:44 AM UTC and leaves on February 18 at 3:51 PM UTC.

Who is Aquarius most compatible with?

By aspect, Gemini, Libra and Aries — they sit at the easiest angles from Aquarius.

What is an Aquarius decan?

A ten-degree third of the sign with its own sub-ruler: Uranus, Mercury and Venus in the modern scheme, Venus, Mercury and the Moon in the older Chaldean order.

What body part does Aquarius rule?

Ankles and circulation — Aquarius rules them, and the sign is linked to nervous energy.

Is the Aquarius man different from the woman?

Not in the chart: the Sun in Aquarius works the same for everyone. The difference is in how it is written about — the Aquarius man is usually read through Mars, which spends 6.9% of days in Aquarius, and the Aquarius woman through Venus, at 8.7%.

Other signs

Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Pisces

Sources

  1. Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, book I, chapter XX, translated by J. M. Ashmand from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus (London, 1822)
  2. William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI

Statements of fact on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. How we choose and check sources: editorial policy.

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