August Zodiac Sign: Leo or Virgo?

In August the zodiac sign is Leo from August 1 to 22 and Virgo from August 23 to 31. Leo rules the long summer days for most of the month, and Virgo, the sign of the harvest in the old imagery, takes the final nine. In 2026 the Sun moved into Virgo at 10:19 p.m. on August 22, Eastern time, less than two hours before the date on most lists.

At a glance	Leo	Virgo
Days in August	August 1 to 22	August 23 to 31
Full sign dates	July 23 to August 22	August 23 to September 22
Element	Fire	Earth
Modality	Fixed	Mutable
Ruler	Sun	Mercury
Symbol	Lion	Maiden
Sun enters in 2026	July 22, 3:13 p.m. EDT	August 22, 10:19 p.m. EDT

The sign for every August day

These are the everyday August dates: Leo up to the 22nd, Virgo from the 23rd. They are correct for the whole month in most years, with the 22nd and 23rd as the only days that can go either way.

Date	Sun sign
August 1	Leo
August 2	Leo
August 3	Leo
August 4	Leo
August 5	Leo
August 6	Leo
August 7	Leo
August 8	Leo
August 9	Leo
August 10	Leo
August 11	Leo
August 12	Leo
August 13	Leo
August 14	Leo
August 15	Leo
August 16	Leo
August 17	Leo
August 18	Leo
August 19	Leo
August 20	Leo
August 21	Leo
August 22	Leo
August 23	Virgo
August 24	Virgo
August 25	Virgo
August 26	Virgo
August 27	Virgo
August 28	Virgo
August 29	Virgo
August 30	Virgo
August 31	Virgo

August 22, 2026, at 10:19 p.m.

The Sun left Leo and entered Virgo on August 22, 2026, at 10:19 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, which was 02:19 UTC on August 23. The time is calculated from the Sun's actual position by the NovaOracles astronomy engine. Everyone born in the United States that day before the change had a Leo Sun, and because it came late in the evening, the switch still fell on the 22nd in every mainland time zone: 9:19 p.m. Central, 8:19 p.m. Mountain and 7:19 p.m. Pacific. To compare a birth with the change, take the local clock time on the birth record, including daylight saving time if it applied, and put it in the same zone as the change. A birth at 11 p.m. in Boston on August 22, 2026, was after 10:19 p.m., so the Sun stood in Virgo.

Leo and Virgo: fire hands over to earth

Leo is fixed fire and the only sign ruled by the Sun. Tradition gives it warmth and a love of the spotlight, along with a generous heart when others are struggling. Virgo is mutable earth, ruled by Mercury, and usually drawn as a maiden holding a sheaf of wheat. Its reading is careful and observant, with a talent for noticing what needs fixing and the patience to fix it. In modality terms, the fixed sign holds summer at its height and the mutable sign prepares the turn to autumn. Leo likes to be seen at work, Virgo likes the work itself, and that difference shapes how the old descriptions read late August.

Leo or Virgo: settling a late-August birthday

A birthday from August 1 to 21 needs no checking, since that is Leo, and the same goes for August 24 to 31, which is Virgo. By our own calculation for every year from 1930 to 2030, the change in Eastern time comes on the 22nd or 23rd, so only those two days need the year and, on the day itself, the hour. Your sign rests on the date and time of birth and nothing else. However tidy or theatrical you are, the Sun's position at that moment is what counts. If yours is one of those days, the zodiac sign dates tool looks up the Sun for your birth year and says whether the sign changed that day.

Your August sign in a full chart

Your August birthday gives you your Sun sign, the center of the chart and the part most horoscopes use. Astrologers read it together with the house the Sun falls in, which points to the area of life where that Leo or Virgo energy tends to show up, such as work, home or friendship. Two people born on August 10 share a Leo Sun, yet with different birth times the Sun can sit in different houses. The houses explainer covers how that works, and the birth chart calculator places every planet in its house from your date, time and place of birth.