August 30 zodiac sign

On August 30 the Sun stands between 5° and 8° Virgo, in the 1st decan of the sign.

Across all the years 1930 to 2050, the Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 30, wherever in the world you were born.

Find your exact Sun degree

Add your birth year, and your time and place if you know them. Hali will work out exactly where the Sun stood when you arrived, and when it next returns there.

Your birthday star

The stars truly behind your Sun

On August 30 the Sun stands in front of the stars of Leo, the lion, even though the sign is Virgo. Astrologers' signs follow the seasons, and over two thousand years the seasons have slipped about a whole sign against the stars.

See the real sky behind your whole chart

August 30 in every year from 1940 to 2025

The Sun is in Virgo on August 30, but the Moon, Mercury and Venus keep moving. Open your decade to see where they were on your birthday. Times are Greenwich time (UTC), so if the Moon changed sign that day, your birth time and place decide which side of the line you were born on.

Moon at midnight and the minute it changed sign, Mercury and Venus at noon, all Greenwich time. Your exact placements need your birth time and place. Find your exact Moon sign

How common is a August 30 birthday?

In US birth records from 1994 to 2014, an average of 11,800 babies were born on August 30 each year. That makes it number 34 of 366 birthdays, where 1 is the most common. That is 6% more than an average day.

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The Virgo in you

Your decan, the first part of Virgo

Ruled by Mercury

Mercury runs the sign and this decan too, which may explain the colour coded notes. Precise, perceptive and quietly witty, you understand things by taking them apart.

Read about the first decan of Virgo

Questions about August 30