Decan 1 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler: Neptune
Double Neptune — the dreamiest and most impressionable.
2026: Feb 18 – Feb 28 · Chaldean order: Saturn
February 19 – March 20 · Water · Mutable · ruled by Neptune (traditionally Jupiter)
Pisces
Pisces covers February 19 – March 20 and is the 12th sign of the zodiac: water, mutable, ruled by Neptune (traditionally Jupiter). Its keynote is empathy, imagination and porous boundaries. In 2026 the Sun spends 29.95 days in it — the 5th shortest of the twelve, because the signs are not equal in length.
- Sun enters 2027
- Feb 18 9:33 PM UTC
- Sun leaves
- Mar 20 8:25 PM UTC
- Season length
- 30.0 days 29 d 22 h 52 min
- US births
- 8.04% 9th most common of 12
Times: NASA JPL DE440. Births: US Social Security Administration, 2000–2014.
The Pisces man The Pisces woman
Exact times
Pisces season 2027: the exact start in your city
The Sun enters Pisces at 9:33 PM UTC on February 18, 2027 — 6:33 PM in Santiago, 4:33 PM in New York, 9:33 PM in London and 6:33 AM on February 19 in Tokyo — and leaves it for Aries at 8:25 PM UTC on March 20, after 29 d 22 h 52 min.
| City | Sun enters Pisces | Sun moves on to Aries |
|---|---|---|
| UTC | Thu, Feb 18 | Sat, Mar 20 |
| Honolulu United States | 11:33 AM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−10 | 10:25 AM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−10 |
| Anchorage United States | 12:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−9 | 12:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−8 |
| Los Angeles United States | 1:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−8 | 1:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−7 |
| Phoenix United States | 2:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−7 | 1:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−7 |
| Denver United States | 2:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−7 | 2:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−6 |
| Chicago United States | 3:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−6 | 3:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−5 |
| Mexico City Mexico | 3:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−6 | 2:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−6 |
| New York United States | 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5 | 4:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−4 |
| Toronto Canada | 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5 | 4:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−4 |
| Bogotá Colombia | 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5 | 3:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−5 |
| Lima Peru | 4:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−5 | 3:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−5 |
| Caracas Venezuela | 5:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−4 | 4:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−4 |
| Santiago Chile | 6:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−3 | 5:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−3 |
| Buenos Aires Argentina | 6:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−3 | 5:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−3 |
| São Paulo Brazil | 6:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC−3 | 5:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC−3 |
| Reykjavík Iceland | 9:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC | 8:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC |
| London United Kingdom | 9:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC | 8:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC |
| Lagos Nigeria | 10:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+1 | 9:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+1 |
| Paris France | 10:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+1 | 9:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+1 |
| Berlin Germany | 10:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+1 | 9:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+1 |
| Johannesburg South Africa | 11:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+2 | 10:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+2 |
| Cairo Egypt | 11:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+2 | 10:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+2 |
| Athens Greece | 11:33 PM Thu, Feb 18 · UTC+2 | 10:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+2 |
| Istanbul Turkey | 12:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3 | 11:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+3 |
| Moscow Russia | 12:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3 | 11:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+3 |
| Nairobi Kenya | 12:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3 | 11:25 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+3 |
| Tehran Iran | 1:03 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+3:30 | 11:55 PM Sat, Mar 20 · UTC+3:30 |
| Dubai United Arab Emirates | 1:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+4 | 12:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+4 |
| Karachi Pakistan | 2:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+5 | 1:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+5 |
| New Delhi India | 3:03 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+5:30 | 1:55 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+5:30 |
| Kathmandu Nepal | 3:18 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+5:45 | 2:10 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+5:45 |
| Dhaka Bangladesh | 3:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+6 | 2:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+6 |
| Bangkok Thailand | 4:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+7 | 3:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+7 |
| Jakarta Indonesia | 4:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+7 | 3:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+7 |
| Singapore | 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8 | 4:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+8 |
| Beijing China | 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8 | 4:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+8 |
| Manila Philippines | 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8 | 4:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+8 |
| Perth Australia | 5:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+8 | 4:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+8 |
| Seoul South Korea | 6:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+9 | 5:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+9 |
| Tokyo Japan | 6:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+9 | 5:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+9 |
| Adelaide Australia | 8:03 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+10:30 | 6:55 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+10:30 |
| Brisbane Australia | 7:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+10 | 6:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+10 |
| Sydney Australia | 8:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+11 | 7:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · UTC+11 |
| Auckland New Zealand | 10:33 AM Fri, Feb 19 · UTC+13 | 9:25 AM Sun, Mar 21 · 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.
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DatesFebruary 19 – March 20
SymbolFish
ElementWater
ModalityMutable
Ruling planetNeptune (traditionally Jupiter)
House12
PolarityNegative
Lucky numbers3, 7
Lucky dayThursday
ColorSea green, lilac
BirthstoneAquamarine, amethyst
Best matches
Cancer, Scorpio, Taurus
Hardest matches
Aquarius, Leo, Libra
Rules the bodyFeet and lymphatic system
Calculated, not approximated
Exact Pisces dates for 2026
Sun enters Pisces
February 18, 3:52 PM UTC
Sun leaves Pisces
March 20, 2:46 PM UTC
Length this year
30 days
The usual "February 19 – March 20" is an average. The Sun enters Pisces at 330° 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.
Pisces season started as late as Feb 20, 1:24 AM UTC in 1904 and will start as early as Feb 18, 5:42 AM UTC in 2049; in 2026 it is Feb 18, 3:52 PM UTC. A common year moves the ingress about 5 h 49 min later and a leap day pulls it back about 18 h 10 min, so it saw-tooths between February 18 and 20. The season itself has run from 29 d 22 h 42 min to 29 d 23 h 38 min — a spread of 56 minutes over 151 years.
Calculated from the Sun's actual motion
The zodiac signs are not equal
Pisces lasts
29.95 days
Rank by length
8 of 12
Share of all births
8.04%
If signs were even
30.44 days · 8.33%
Pisces runs 29.95 days in 2026 — in the middle of the range, between the long summer signs and the short winter ones. Only just longer is Libra at 30.4 days; just behind is Scorpio at 29.91.
With US births also peaking between July and September, Pisces took 8.04% of them in 2000–2014. All twelve lengths, and why they differ, are on the zodiac dates page.
Pisces: 8.04% of the 62.2 million births, with each birth assigned by the Sun’s ingress time — the 9th 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 Pisces decans
Ten degrees each. Modern astrologers give them to the three water signs' rulers — Neptune, the Moon and Pluto; the older Chaldean order, used on our birth date pages, gives Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
Decan 2 · 10°–20°
Sub-ruler: Moon
Emotionally attuned and nurturing. Feels for everyone.
2026: Feb 28 – Mar 10 · Chaldean order: Jupiter
Decan 3 · 20°–30°
Sub-ruler: Pluto
Deeper and more transformative. Compassion with steel in it.
2026: Mar 10 – Mar 20 · Chaldean order: Mars
Pisces personality
Compassionate
Escapist
Creative
Impressionable
Gentle
Strengths
Feels what other people feel, often before they do. Creative without forcing it.
Weaknesses
Absorbs moods indiscriminately and retreats into fantasy when reality gets loud.
Pisces is the one mutable water sign — and that pairing is the whole explanation. The element sets temperament: water signs read the room before anyone speaks. The modality decides what happens when circumstances change: mutable signs adapt to it.
No other sign is mutable water, so Pisces cannot stand in for the other water signs — which share the temperament and divide the work between them differently.
Primary source
Why Jupiter rules Pisces, in Ptolemy’s words
“Jupiter has a favourable temperament, and is situated beneath the sphere of Saturn; he therefore occupies the next two signs, Sagittarius and Pisces. These signs are airy and fruitful, in consequence of their trinal distance from the houses of the luminaries, which distance harmonizes with the operation 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 Pisces to Neptune, discovered in 1846.
Primary source
What William Lilly wrote about Pisces in 1647
“[Pisces] is of the Watry Triplicity, Northern, cold Signe, moyst, Flegmatick, feminine, nocturnal, the house of Jupiter, and exaltation of Venus, a Bycorporeal, common or double-bodied Signe, an idle, effeminate, sickly Signe, or representing a party of no action.”
“A short Stature, ill composed, not very decent, a good large Face, palish Complexion, the Body fleshy or swelling, not very straight, but incurvating somewhat with the Head.”
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 Pisces man and woman
Pisces man
Gentle, imaginative and porous. Absorbs the mood of whoever he is with.
Pisces woman
Empathic and romantic, prone to loving a version of someone rather than the person.
Astrology gives Pisces no gendered meaning; the two sketches follow how the sign is usually written about.
Pisces in each area of life
In love and relationships
Devoted and idealizing. Prone to loving a version of someone rather than the person.
As a friend
The one who understands without being told, and disappears when overwhelmed.
At work
Excels in creative and caring work. Needs structure supplied by someone else.
Career that suits
Art, music, care work, therapy, anything requiring empathy or imagination.
With money
Vague about it. Generous to a fault and reluctant to name a price.
As a child
Dreamy, sensitive and easily overwhelmed. Needs gentle structure supplied from outside.
As a parent
Compassionate and imaginative. Struggles with boundaries and consistency.
Health and the body
Feet and lymphatic system — Pisces rules them, the last sign governing the last part of the body.
Pisces compatibility with every sign
Ranked by the angle from Pisces on the wheel; how the angle is read is explained on the compatibility hub.
| With | Aspect | Angle | Score | Element |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Trine | 120° | 88% | Water |
| Scorpio | Trine | 120° | 88% | Water |
| Taurus | Sextile | 60° | 82% | Earth |
| Capricorn | Sextile | 60° | 82% | Earth |
| Pisces | Conjunction | 0° | 78% | Water |
| Virgo | Opposition | 180° | 75% | Earth |
| Gemini | Square | 90° | 62% | Air |
| Sagittarius | Square | 90° | 62% | Fire |
| Aries | Semi-sextile | 30° | 58% | Fire |
| Aquarius | Semi-sextile | 30° | 58% | Air |
| Leo | Quincunx | 150° | 55% | Fire |
| Libra | Quincunx | 150° | 55% | Air |
Famous Pisces
Rihanna, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Taylor
Pisces accounts for 8.04% of US births, so a list of famous Pisces is trivia rather than evidence.
Common questions about Pisces
What are the exact Pisces dates?
February 19 – March 20 as usually published. In 2026 the Sun enters Pisces on February 18 at 3:51 PM UTC and leaves on March 20 at 2:45 PM UTC.
Who is Pisces most compatible with?
By aspect, Cancer, Scorpio and Taurus — they sit at the easiest angles from Pisces.
What is a Pisces decan?
A ten-degree third of the sign with its own sub-ruler: Neptune, the Moon and Pluto in the modern scheme, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the older Chaldean order.
What body part does Pisces rule?
Feet and lymphatic system — Pisces rules them, the last sign governing the last part of the body.
Is the Pisces man different from the woman?
Not in the chart: the Sun in Pisces works the same for everyone. The difference is in how it is written about — the Pisces man is usually read through Mars, which spends 7.0% of days in Pisces, and the Pisces woman through Venus, at 7.5%.
Sources
- Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, book I, chapter XX, translated by J. M. Ashmand from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus (London, 1822)
- 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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