Birthdays

Born on November 21

Sun sign
Scorpio or Sagittarius — the Scorpio–Sagittarius boundary lands here
1940–2030
whole day Scorpio in 84 years · whole day Sagittarius in 0 · split at the ingress in 7
In 2026
Scorpio all day
Sun degrees
28°17′ Scorpio – 29°42′ Scorpio · noon UTC, 1940–2030
Decan
last decan of Scorpio or first of Sagittarius — the ingress decides
This year
November 21, 2026: Sun 29°10′ Scorpio · Moon in Aries at noon UTC
The year-by-year table, 1940–2030
1940Scorpio1941Scorpio1942Scorpio1943Scorpio1944Scorpio1945Scorpio1946Scorpio1947Scorpio1948Scorpio1949Scorpio1950Scorpio1951Scorpio1952Scorpio1953Scorpio1954Scorpio1955Scorpio1956Scorpio1957Scorpio1958Scorpio1959Scorpio1960Scorpio1961Scorpio1962Scorpio1963Scorpio1964Scorpio1965Scorpio1966Scorpio1967Scorpio1968Scorpio1969Scorpio1970Scorpio1971Scorpio1972Scorpio1973Scorpio1974Scorpio1975Scorpio1976Scorpio1977Scorpio1978Scorpio1979Scorpio1980Scorpio1981Scorpio1982Scorpio1983Scorpio1984Scorpio1985Scorpio1986Scorpio1987Scorpio1988Scorpio1989Scorpio1990Scorpio1991Scorpio1992Scorpio1993Scorpio1994Scorpio1995Scorpio1996Scorpio1997Scorpio1998Scorpio1999Scorpio2000Scorpio2001Scorpio2002Scorpio2003Scorpio2004Scorpio → Sagittarius 23:21 UTC2005Scorpio2006Scorpio2007Scorpio2008Scorpio → Sagittarius 22:44 UTC2009Scorpio2010Scorpio2011Scorpio2012Scorpio → Sagittarius 21:49 UTC2013Scorpio2014Scorpio2015Scorpio2016Scorpio → Sagittarius 21:22 UTC2017Scorpio2018Scorpio2019Scorpio2020Scorpio → Sagittarius 20:39 UTC2021Scorpio2022Scorpio2023Scorpio2024Scorpio → Sagittarius 19:56 UTC2025Scorpio2026Scorpio2027Scorpio2028Scorpio → Sagittarius 18:54 UTC2029Scorpio2030Scorpio

Times are universal time — convert your birth time before reading your year.

Most years, November 21 belongs to Scorpio from midnight to midnight — and then some years it doesn’t, which is why this page carries a table instead of a slogan. In a run of recent years the Sun’s crossing into Sagittarius lands on the 21st itself, so a birth late enough in the day comes out on the Archer’s side of the line. The table above holds your year; if it marks a split, the birth hour is the deciding fact.

The last degree and the first

Either way, this date lives against a boundary, and boundary birthdays tend to carry both textures. End-stage Scorpio is the Scorpio Sun at its most concentrated: private, penetrating, finished with pretense. Day-one Sagittarius is the Sagittarius Sun at its most unfiltered: candid, restless, already halfway elsewhere. The common thread is truth — one excavates it, the other announces it — and a November 21 usually does some of each: the investigator who, at long last, publishes the findings.

Loving from depth, speaking from range

In love this blend bonds like water and talks like fire: attachments form deep and private, then get discussed with a frankness pure Scorpio would never authorize. Partners get real intimacy plus honest weather reports — a rarer combination than it sounds. At work the mix suits truth-facing trades: investigative anything, research that ends in publication, teaching hard material — and it carries a low tolerance for jobs that run on polite fictions.

Where holding meets leaving

The friction is internal: Scorpio grips, Sagittarius bolts, and both reflexes can fire on the same bad day — hold harder, or go now. The result can be relationships kept past their truth or left before their repair. The growth is the third option both signs respect: stay, and say the true thing out loud, while it can still change something.

Don’t take the cusp as a shrug. Your year is in the table above, and if it’s one of the split years, the birth chart calculator resolves the Sun’s precise degree for your birth minute — one date, one answer.

The date, answered

What zodiac sign is November 21?

Scorpio or Sagittarius — this date sits on the boundary. In 84 of the years from 1940 to 2030 the whole day belonged to Scorpio; in 0 it belonged to Sagittarius; in 7 the Sun crossed over during the day. The year table above gives your answer, and a birth chart settles it to the minute.

What time does the sign change on November 21?

In years when the ingress lands on November 21, it falls between 18:54 and 23:21 universal time. In the other years the whole day is one sign. Convert your birth time to UTC before reading the table.

Which sign should I read?

Check your birth year in the table. If your year is a split year, the deciding fact is your birth time converted to universal time — or skip the table and compute your chart, which reads the Sun's exact degree for your birth moment.

What degree is the Sun on November 21?

Between 28°17′ Scorpio and 29°42′ Scorpio at noon universal time, depending on the year — the calendar drifts about a quarter degree per year against the Sun and resets on leap years. Your exact degree needs your birth date, year, and time.

The date gives you the Sun. The rest takes a chart.

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