July 20 Zodiac Sign: Cancer
The short answer
People born on July 20 are Cancer. On this date the Sun sits between 26.4° Cancer and 28.7° Cancer in every year from 1950 to 2025, in the third decan of Cancer.
July 20 at a glance
| Zodiac sign | Cancer (June 21 to July 22) |
|---|---|
| Sun position, 1950 to 2025 | 26.4° Cancer to 28.7° Cancer (usually 27.6° Cancer at noon UTC) |
| Decan | third decan of Cancer: Pisces (triplicity), Moon (Chaldean), Four of Cups (Golden Dawn) |
| Element | Water |
| Modality | Cardinal |
| Ruling planet | Moon |
| Nearest sign change | About 1.3 days away |
What a July 20 birthday means
On July 20 the Sun sits between 26.4° Cancer and 28.7° Cancer in every year from 1950 to 2025, counting every hour of the day in UTC. Its usual noon position is 27.6° Cancer.
That places July 20 in the third decan of Cancer. The modern triplicity system gives this decan to Pisces, the older Chaldean order gives it to the Moon, and the Golden Dawn tradition pairs it with the Four of Cups.
Cancer is a water sign of the cardinal modality, ruled by the Moon. Water signs read the mood first; feeling is how they know what is true. Cardinal signs start things: each one opens a season.
July 20 sits close to the boundary between Cancer and Leo, about 1.3 days away, but in every year charted the Sun was in Cancer for the whole of this date.
When the Sun changes sign around July 20
Across 1950 to 2025, the Sun entered Leo on these dates (UTC):
- July 22: 38 years
- July 23: 38 years
If you were born near the change, your birth year and time decide your sign: cast your free birth chart to see it.
Where these figures come from
The Sun's position was charted at 12:00 UTC on every day from 1950 to 2025, and the start and end of each date were placed on the straight line between neighbouring days, which is exact to a small fraction of a degree. The range covers every hour of July 20 in UTC across all 76 years; someone born far from UTC can sit up to about half a degree beyond it. Decans follow two traditional systems: the triplicity system, which gives each third of a sign to the three signs of its element in turn, and the older Chaldean order of faces, which runs through the seven classical planets from Mars at the start of Aries.
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