February Zodiac Sign: Aquarius or Pisces?

February's zodiac sign is Aquarius from February 1 to 18 and Pisces from February 19 to the last day of the month. As the shortest month, February gives Aquarius about two and a half weeks and Pisces the rest, including February 29 in a leap year. In 2026 the handover came a day early: the Sun entered Pisces on the morning of February 18, Eastern time.

At a glance	Aquarius	Pisces
Days in February	February 1 to 18	February 19 to 28 (29)
Full sign dates	January 20 to February 18	February 19 to March 20
Element	Air	Water
Modality	Fixed	Mutable
Ruler	Saturn, modern Uranus	Jupiter, modern Neptune
Symbol	Water bearer	Two fish
Sun enters in 2026	January 19, 8:45 p.m. EST	February 18, 10:52 a.m. EST

Every day of February and its sign

The split below uses the familiar calendar dates. 2026 was not a leap year, so the table stops at the 28th; in a leap year, February 29 is Pisces as well.

Date	Sun sign
February 1	Aquarius
February 2	Aquarius
February 3	Aquarius
February 4	Aquarius
February 5	Aquarius
February 6	Aquarius
February 7	Aquarius
February 8	Aquarius
February 9	Aquarius
February 10	Aquarius
February 11	Aquarius
February 12	Aquarius
February 13	Aquarius
February 14	Aquarius
February 15	Aquarius
February 16	Aquarius
February 17	Aquarius
February 18	Aquarius
February 19	Pisces
February 20	Pisces
February 21	Pisces
February 22	Pisces
February 23	Pisces
February 24	Pisces
February 25	Pisces
February 26	Pisces
February 27	Pisces
February 28	Pisces

February 18, 2026: the morning Pisces began

Eastern time in February is standard time, EST. In 2026 the Sun left Aquarius and entered Pisces on February 18 at 10:52 a.m. EST, or 15:52 UTC. That is one day before the date on most lists, and it came from the Sun's actual position, calculated with the NovaOracles astronomy engine. A baby born in New York on February 18, 2026, before 10:52 a.m. therefore has an Aquarius Sun, and one born from 10:52 a.m. on has a Pisces Sun. In Los Angeles the same moment was 7:52 a.m. Pacific. Why the date moves at all comes down to the calendar: the Sun takes a little under 365 and a quarter days to come back to the same point, so each sign change arrives roughly six hours later than the year before and jumps back after each leap day. The crossing itself is called an ingress.

Aquarius and Pisces: from air to water

The month moves from a fixed air sign into a mutable water sign, a change of both element and modality. Aquarius is the water bearer, even though it is an air sign, and astrologers often read the water it pours as knowledge shared with others. Saturn rules it traditionally and Uranus in modern astrology, and tradition links it with independence and a mind that runs ahead of its time. Pisces, two fish tied together and swimming in opposite directions, is the last sign of the zodiac. Jupiter is its classical ruler and Neptune its modern one, and astrologers read it as imaginative and quick to absorb the mood around it. Fixed signs hold a course, and mutable signs adapt, so in the old view February turns from steady conviction to something more fluid.

Aquarius or Pisces: where your birthday falls

February 1 to 17 is Aquarius and February 20 to 29 is Pisces in every year from 1930 to 2030, by our own calculation. In that span the Sun entered Pisces on either the 18th or the 19th in Eastern time, so a birthday on one of those two days needs the year and, near the switch, the hour. Nothing else decides it: the sign comes from the Sun's place at the moment of birth, whatever the personality descriptions say. Enter a birthday in the zodiac sign dates tool and it shows the sign for that exact year, with a note when the Sun changed signs that day. The zodiac fundamentals guide explains how the twelve signs are measured along the Sun's path.

Beyond the February sign

The Sun sign is a starting point. It speaks to a basic temperament, while the Moon, the rising sign and the other planets fill in how that temperament plays out, which is why two people born on the same February day can read so differently. An Aquarius with the Moon in Pisces, for example, pairs a detached mind with a soft heart. With your date, time and place of birth, the birth chart calculator places the Sun to the degree and shows the rest of the chart around it.