Zodiac Signs by Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Winter is Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

The table below adds the season windows; I kept this page short because that's the whole map.

Zodiac Signs by Season at a Glance

Season	Opens at	Approximate window	The three signs
Spring	March equinox	about March 20 - about June 20	Aries, Taurus, Gemini
Summer	June solstice	about June 20-21 - about September 22	Cancer, Leo, Virgo
Fall	September equinox	about September 22-23 - about December 21	Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius
Winter	December solstice	about December 21 - about March 20	Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces

The season names are the Northern Hemisphere ones used in the United States. Each season holds exactly three signs because the twelve signs wrap the wheel in order, and the four anchors - the two equinoxes and the two solstices - divide the year evenly. Printed sign windows can shift by about a day between years, which is why the table uses approximate dates rather than fixed ones.

Each season starts with what's called a cardinal sign - Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn - which is the structural reason the grouping exists at all. The mechanism behind that clock is covered on its own page; here I'm just handing you the table.

Sign-to-season lookup:

Aries → spring, opens it
Taurus → spring, the middle
Gemini → spring, closes it
Cancer → summer, opens it
Leo → summer, the middle
Virgo → summer, closes it
Libra → fall, opens it
Scorpio → fall, the middle
Sagittarius → fall, closes it
Capricorn → winter, opens it
Aquarius → winter, the middle
Pisces → winter, closes it

Spring Signs: Aries, Taurus and Gemini

Spring runs from the March equinox to the June solstice. Aries opens the season, Taurus holds the middle, and Gemini closes it. The arc covers most of March, all of April and May, and the first two-thirds of June.

March is the split month here - the first half belongs to winter, and the second half starts spring at the equinox. Opening the season means Aries is the cardinal sign anchored at the March equinox, which is the structural entry point to the spring quarter of the wheel.

Summer Signs: Cancer, Leo and Virgo

Summer runs from the June solstice to the September equinox. Cancer opens the season, Leo holds the middle, and Virgo closes it. This arc covers the last third of June, all of July and August, and most of September.

June and September are the split months - June's first two-thirds belong to spring, and September's last third belongs to fall. Cancer, Leo and Virgo are the three signs that answer the site's single best-performing historical query: what are the summer astrological signs.

Fall Signs: Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius

Fall runs from the September equinox to the December solstice. Libra opens the season, Scorpio holds the middle, and Sagittarius closes it. The arc covers the last week of September, all of October and November, and the first two-thirds of December.

US readers will also see this season called autumn - I use fall as the site's term. September and December are the split months here. Libra anchors the September equinox, which makes it the cardinal sign that opens the fall quarter.

Winter Signs: Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces

Winter runs from the December solstice to the March equinox. Capricorn opens the season, Aquarius holds the middle, and Pisces closes it.

This is the one season that crosses the New Year - a December-born reader and a February-born reader are in the same seasonal group. December and March are the split months. The arc covers the last third of December, all of January and February, and the first two-thirds of March.

Why Four Months Get Split in Half

The four anchors - the March and September equinoxes, the June and December solstices - fall in the second half of their months. March, June, September and December each belong to two seasons, and a birthday in one of them cannot be resolved by the month alone.

I once watched somebody born June 20 get three different answers from three different sites, because each printed one fixed date instead of a per-year table. That's the friction this checklist exists to remove.

If your birthday is in March, June, September or December:

Your month spans two seasons, so the month alone does not settle which one you're in.
Check your exact date against your birth year - the boundary moves by about a day between years.
Run your birth date, and if you have it, your birth time, through the zodiac sign calculator. Read the matching month page for the year-by-year detail.

No single printed date settles it. The March, June, September and December pages carry the boundary years individually.

If You Were Born South of the Equator

South of the equator the seasons run opposite, and a small number of tropical astrologers flip the frame there, treating Libra as the spring-equinox sign. Your sun sign itself does not change - only the season label attached to it. The mapping above uses the Northern Hemisphere frame that the United States follows.

Questions Readers Ask About Zodiac Seasons

What are the summer zodiac signs?

Cancer, Leo and Virgo, in that order. They cover the arc from the June solstice to the September equinox, which runs from about June 20-21 to about September 22. Cancer opens summer, Leo holds the middle, and Virgo closes it.

My birthday is June 20 - am I a spring sign or a summer sign?

It depends on the exact year, because the solstice moves by about a day between years. Run your birth date through the zodiac sign calculator rather than guessing, and check the June page for the year-by-year boundary. No single printed date settles it, which is why this page gives windows rather than fixed dates.

Do the zodiac seasons start on the same date every year?

No. About a day of drift is normal, which is why the table uses "about" in front of every boundary date. The reason is covered in detail on the page about why boundaries move between years.

I live in Australia - do I get the opposite sign?

No. The sun sign does not change; only the season label attached to it flips. A small number of tropical astrologers flip the frame accordingly, treating Libra as the spring-equinox sign in the Southern Hemisphere.

Does being a "summer sign" say anything about my personality?

It says when the Sun entered your sign, which is a calendar fact. I spent years assuming "summer sign" carried some temperamental meaning before noticing it only marks a three-month window on the wheel.

If you want the layer that traditional astrology does attach to season position, that's the modality axis - cardinal, fixed and mutable - which maps onto season start, middle and end.

If the season your birthday lands in is not obvious from the table, run the exact date through the sign calculator. If you now want the layer underneath the grouping, take the season clock next. You can also explore the rest of zodiac basics to see how the wheel is structured.

Sources:

This site's own sign-date table, the curated ingress rows for 2016-2030 that the sign pages and the zodiac calendar are built from; the rows behind these season windows are double-sourced against the Cafe Astrology Eastern tables and USNO-derived equinox and solstice tables. Supports: the four approximate season windows and the "about one day of drift between years" statement. As of August 2026.
This site's own season-anchor canon, /zodiac-basics/sun-sign-meaning/ and /zodiac-basics/cardinal-fixed-mutable/. Supports: Aries at the March equinox, Cancer at the June solstice, Libra at the September equinox, Capricorn at the December solstice, and the Southern Hemisphere framing. As of August 2026.

The zodiac is presented here as a traditional symbolic system for entertainment and self-reflection. Nothing on this page predicts anything about a specific person, and nothing is offered as a scientific finding.