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April 20 zodiac sign: Aries or Taurus?

If you were born on April 20, you're Aries or Taurus depending on the time: Aries before the Sun enters Taurus, Taurus after. The Sun crosses from one sign to the other on this date in 31 of the 51 years from 1980 to 2030, and the minute shifts from year to year (2026: April 20, 01:39 UTC). At noon UTC it's Taurus in 88% of years; the exact minute of the change for every year is below.

Aries or Taurus? Check your year

The Sun's entry into Taurus shifts by a few hours from year to year. Find your birth year, convert your birth time to UTC, and compare: born before the time shown, you're Aries; after it, Taurus. Years missing from the list had the crossing on a neighbouring day (the Sun was in one sign for the whole of April 20).

1981 04:18 UTC1982 10:07 UTC1983 15:49 UTC1985 03:25 UTC1986 09:12 UTC1987 14:57 UTC1989 02:39 UTC1990 08:26 UTC1991 14:08 UTC1993 01:49 UTC1994 07:36 UTC1995 13:21 UTC1997 01:03 UTC1998 06:56 UTC1999 12:46 UTC2001 00:35 UTC2002 06:20 UTC2003 12:03 UTC2006 05:25 UTC2007 11:07 UTC2010 04:29 UTC2011 10:17 UTC2014 03:55 UTC2015 09:41 UTC2018 03:12 UTC2019 08:54 UTC2022 02:24 UTC2023 08:13 UTC2026 01:39 UTC2027 07:17 UTC2030 00:43 UTC

Not sure about the time zone or the minutes? Compute your chart — it does the conversion and settles the sign. Or read the Aries–Taurus cusp: which are you?

Your sign: Taurus (or Aries)

The fixed earth sign that builds slowly, holds firmly, and refuses to be hurried.

A Taurus Sun makes your identity around steadiness, sensuality, and the long game. You build slowly — and that's a feature, not a bug. While faster signs sprint and burn out, you're still walking, still showing up, and twenty years later you have something built. Comfort matters to you in a way that surprises people who think comfort is shallow: a good meal, a familiar bed, a body that feels at home in itself. You don't apologise for any of it.

The date fixes the Sun; the year and hour fix the rest. A Taurus born April 20 with the Moon in Capricorn runs on a different inner weather from one with the Moon in Taurus: see Taurus Sun, Capricorn Moon. Your rising sign needs the birth time; the twelve Taurus Sun combinations show what each one changes.

Taurus dates, traits & compatibility → · What a Taurus birth chart looks like → · Aries dates and traits →

In the US (2000–2014), an average of 10,904 babies were born on each April 20, rank 309 of 366 dates; Taurus is number 6 of 12 signs (8.29%). What's the most common zodiac sign?

The Moon on April 20, 1980–2030

Across the 51 years from 1980 to 2030, the Moon at noon UTC on April 20 was most often in Cancer and Capricorn (6 years each) and least often in Aries, Virgo, and Aquarius (3 years each). Unlike the Sun, the Moon sign depends on the birth year. On April 20, 2026, the Moon stays in Gemini the whole UTC day.

In 22 of those 51 years (43%) the Moon changed sign during April 20 itself, so in those years the birth time decides the Moon as well as the rising sign. Cells with an arrow mark them, with the UTC time of the change. The Moon was exactly full on April 20 in 2008 and 2027, and new in 1985 and 2023.

Find your birth year. One sign means the Moon spent the whole UTC day there; an arrow means it changed sign that day, at the UTC time shown: born before it, the first sign; after it, the second. The Moon sign calculator settles it in seconds; your birth chart adds the rising sign and houses.

Times in UTC: a birth late in the evening in the Americas, or early in the morning in Asia, can fall on the neighbouring UTC date.

April 2026: full moon April 2, 2026, Libra · new moon April 17, 2026, Aries.

Your decan: the first decan of Taurus

Each sign is divided into three 10° decans, and each decan has a sub-ruler that shades the sign's core. Degrees 0–10 of Taurus belong to Mercury: how you think, learn, communicate, and process information. Read it as Taurus with a Mercury accent — the earth core is unchanged, the emphasis moves.

Decan tarot card · Golden Dawn attribution

Five of Pentacles

Hardship · Exclusion · Recovery. The card assigned to this ten-degree slice of the zodiac — a birthday card in the same sense a sun sign is a birthday sign: one lens on the date, not a verdict.

Read the Five of Pentacles in full on My Day Check →

All the tarot cards for April 20: decan, sign, ruling planet and year card →

What the date can't tell you

The Sun is one placement out of ten. Your Moon sign changes every two to three days, so Taureans born on April 20 in different years have different Moons; your rising sign changes every two hours and needs a birth time and place. Those two carry most of what people mean by "personality" in a chart.

Born April 20? Add your year, time and place

Your Moon and rising depend on the year and hour. Computed here in a few seconds — then your full chart with a preview of its reading, no sign-up.

Or browse the twelve possibilities: Taurus Sun with each Moon → · just my Moon sign · how the free birth chart calculator works

Classic matches for an April 20 birthday

By sun sign, Taurus pairs most easily with Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer, Pisces. Sun-sign compatibility is the coarse layer; the couple reading compares both full charts.

Common questions

Is April 20 Aries or Taurus?

Both are possible. On April 20 the Sun moves from Aries into Taurus in most years, at a time that ranges from 00:35 UTC to 15:49 UTC UTC across 1980–2030 (in some years the crossing falls on the neighbouring day). Convert your birth time to UTC and compare it with the crossing for your year in the table above — before it you're Aries, after it Taurus.

What zodiac sign is April 20?

April 20 is a cusp day between Aries and Taurus; at noon UTC it falls in Taurus in 88% of years between 1980 and 2030. Your birth year and hour decide it.

What decan is April 20?

The first decan of Taurus (0°–10°), sub-ruled by Mercury. Decans divide each sign into three 10° slices; the sub-ruler adds a second flavour to the sign's core — here how you think, learn, communicate, and process information.

What tarot card is April 20?

In the Golden Dawn system each decan has a minor arcana card: for the first decan of Taurus it is the Five of Pentacles (hardship, exclusion, recovery). It's a birthday card in the same way a sun sign is — one lens, not a verdict.

What Moon sign is someone born on April 20?

It depends on the year, and in 43% of years on the hour too. For example: in 1980, Cancer; in 1990, Aquarius or Pisces; in 2000, Scorpio; in 2010, Cancer; in 2020, Pisces or Aries. Over 1980–2030 the Moon on April 20 was most often in Cancer and Capricorn. A birth time and place pin it down.

Does everyone born on April 20 have the same chart?

No. They share the Sun in Taurus or Aries, but the Moon changes sign every two to three days, the rising sign every two hours, and the outer planets by year. Two people born April 20 in different years can have almost nothing else in common in their charts.