Enter a birth date to find the western zodiac sign, its date range and element — with cusp dates flagged honestly.
How signs map to dates
The western zodiac divides the year into twelve signs by the sun’s position along the ecliptic, each spanning roughly a month. Enter a birth date and this calculator returns the sign, its conventional date range, and its classical element — and it flags birthdays within a day of a boundary, because the exact crossover shifts by about a day from year to year.
How to use it
- Enter the birth date.
- Read the sign, range and element.
- If the cusp flag shows, the sign for that specific year may differ by one day.
The twelve
A worked example
A 14 August birthday is a Leo — 23 July to 22 August, a Fire sign, comfortably mid-range with no cusp question. A 22 September birthday, by contrast, sits on the Virgo–Libra line where the sun’s actual crossing wobbles between the 22nd and 23rd depending on the year — which is why serious answers for cusp birthdays reference the birth year, and casual ones just pick the conventional table.