Sagittarius Season 2026 Starts November 22 at 07:24 UTC — Still November 21 in Los Angeles. Every Start Time 2015–2035
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Sagittarius season 2026 begins when the Sun reaches 240° of ecliptic longitude: November 22 at about 07:24 UTC. Scorpio season, which began on October 23 at 09:41 UTC, ends at the same moment, after 29.9 days.
What time that is where you live
| Place | Sun enters Sagittarius (local time) |
|---|---|
| London | November 22, 07:24 |
| Paris, Berlin | November 22, 08:24 |
| Seoul, Tokyo | November 22, 16:24 |
| Sydney | November 22, 18:24 |
| New York | November 22, 02:24 |
| Los Angeles | November 21, 23:24 |
So someone born in Los Angeles on the evening of November 21, 2026, after 23:24, is a Sagittarius Sun, while someone born in Seoul on the morning of November 22 is still a Scorpio. The calendar date alone does not settle it.
The start moment, every year 2015–2035 (UTC)
| Year | Sun enters Sagittarius (UTC) |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Nov 22, 15:25 |
| 2016 | Nov 21, 21:17 |
| 2017 | Nov 22, 03:08 |
| 2018 | Nov 22, 08:59 |
| 2019 | Nov 22, 14:49 |
| 2020 | Nov 21, 20:38 |
| 2021 | Nov 22, 02:27 |
| 2022 | Nov 22, 08:15 |
| 2023 | Nov 22, 14:02 |
| 2024 | Nov 21, 19:49 |
| 2025 | Nov 22, 01:36 |
| 2026 | Nov 22, 07:24 |
| 2027 | Nov 22, 13:11 |
| 2028 | Nov 21, 19:00 |
| 2029 | Nov 22, 00:49 |
| 2030 | Nov 22, 06:38 |
| 2031 | Nov 22, 12:29 |
| 2032 | Nov 21, 18:20 |
| 2033 | Nov 22, 00:12 |
| 2034 | Nov 22, 06:03 |
| 2035 | Nov 22, 11:55 |
The pattern is the leap-year cycle: each year the moment moves about 5 hours 50 minutes later, and every leap year it jumps back by about a day. In UTC, Sagittarius season started on November 21 in 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028 and 2032, and on November 22 in every other year shown. Horoscope columns that print "November 22 – December 21" as fixed dates are right most years and off by a day in others.
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The same moment is 소설 (Xiaoxue, "Minor Snow") in the East Asian solar calendar, also defined as the Sun at 240°. In BaZi it does not change the month pillar; only the twelve "jie" terms do (the Ipdong boundary, in Korean).
What the numbers do and don't tell you
When the Sun crosses 240° is astronomy. What a Sagittarius Sun is supposed to mean is an interpretation, and this table cannot prove or disprove it. It can tell you which side of the line a birth falls on. This is a calculation, not a reading of you.
How we calculated: the Sun's apparent longitude from the public-domain (Meeus) solar formulas in our chart engine, searched to the minute for 240°. Our winter-solstice time for 2026 is one minute off the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute's published value, so treat each time as accurate to within a few minutes. For a birth within ten minutes of the boundary, check an official almanac.