Scorpio season 2026 begins on October 23 at 09:38 UTC, when the Sun reaches 0° Scorpio (210° of tropical longitude). It ends on November 22 at 07:23 UTC, when the Sun reaches 0° Sagittarius (240°). The season lasts about 29.9 days.
Those two instants are the same everywhere on Earth. Only the clock and, sometimes, the calendar date change.
Local start and end times
Scorpio season starts (Sun enters Scorpio):
- Los Angeles: October 23, 02:38 (UTC−7)
- Mexico City: October 23, 03:38 (UTC−6)
- New York: October 23, 05:38 (UTC−4)
- London: October 23, 10:38 (UTC+1)
- Madrid: October 23, 11:38 (UTC+2)
- Cairo and Riyadh: October 23, 12:38 (UTC+3)
- New Delhi: October 23, 15:08 (UTC+5:30)
- Sydney: October 23, 20:38 (UTC+11)
Scorpio season ends (Sun enters Sagittarius):
- Los Angeles: November 21, 23:23 (UTC−8). That's a day earlier than in UTC.
- Mexico City: November 22, 01:23 (UTC−6)
- New York: November 22, 02:23 (UTC−5)
- London: November 22, 07:23 (UTC+0)
- Madrid: November 22, 08:23 (UTC+1)
- Cairo: November 22, 09:23 (UTC+2)
- Riyadh: November 22, 10:23 (UTC+3)
- New Delhi: November 22, 12:53 (UTC+5:30)
- Sydney: November 22, 18:23 (UTC+11)
The offsets differ between the two lists because several places change their clocks in between. Europe and the UK leave summer time on October 25. The United States follows on November 1, and Egypt on October 29. On the US West Coast, the Sun leaves Scorpio late on the evening of November 21 local time. A calendar that prints "November 22" for everyone is a day off there.
Why the dates move a little each year
Scorpio season does not start on a fixed calendar date. The Sun crossed 0° Scorpio on October 23, 2025 at 03:51 UTC. In 2027 it crosses on October 23 at 15:33 UTC. The calendar year and the Sun's cycle don't line up exactly, so the crossing drifts by hours each year, enough to land on October 22, 23 or 24 depending on year and clock. Printed "October 23 – November 21" ranges are averages, not measurements.
The season is a transit; your Sun sign is a birth position
"Scorpio season" describes where the Sun is now. For about thirty days it moves through the sign of Scorpio, roughly one degree a day, and it does that for everyone at once. Astrologers call this a transit.
Your Sun sign describes where the Sun was when you were born. It never changes. Someone with a Leo Sun doesn't become a Scorpio in late October. The transiting Sun just spends a month in another part of their chart.
That distinction is the useful part. Tradition reads Scorpio themes as depth, privacy, intensity, shared resources and things that are hard to let go of. It reads them as background for this month, not as personality traits you've suddenly acquired. How the season touches any one person depends on their own chart:
- If you have planets between 0° and 30° Scorpio, the Sun passes over each of them on a specific day.
- If you have planets in Taurus, the Sun opposes them on matching dates.
- If you have planets in Leo or Aquarius, the Sun squares them.
Those are calendar dates for noticing, not forecasts. Nothing in astrology makes an event certain because the Sun reached a degree.
Three dates you may already be watching:
- Retrograde Venus meets the Sun at 0°45′ Scorpio on October 24 at 03:44 UTC (11:44 PM on October 23 in New York). Exact times and what "cazimi" does and doesn't mean: Venus cazimi October 2026.
- The Full Moon of October 26 at 04:12 UTC falls with the Sun at 2°46′ Scorpio and the Moon opposite at 2°46′ Taurus. There are local times for that Full Moon on our Full Moon October 2026 page.
- On Halloween the Sun sits at about 8° Scorpio.
Born near the boundary?
If your birthday is October 22, 23 or 24, or November 21, 22 or 23, the sign depends on the year, the place and the time you were born. Two people born on "October 23" in different years, or in different countries, can have different Sun signs.
The Sun sign cusp calculator checks your actual birth date and city across the whole local day. It tells you whether the Sun stayed in one sign all day or changed signs, and roughly when. If it changed, your birth time decides which side you're on.
There is no "cusp sign" in the calculation: at any moment the Sun is in exactly one sign. Being born near a boundary means a very early or very late degree, not half of each sign.
For an example, RAYE was born on October 24, 1997, in London, and her Sun stays in the first degree of Scorpio all day. Her chart reading shows how much else sits beside that label. Our RAYE birth chart article turns one pattern from that date-only chart into three questions about what deserves more room.
Katy Perry, born the next day in 1984, has the Sun at about 2° Scorpio as one of five Scorpio bodies; her stellium breakdown shows how one sign can hold two separate tight pairs.
If you already know your Sun is in Scorpio, the Sun in Scorpio guide covers the placement itself.
What we can't tell you without a birth time
The season tells you where the Sun is. It doesn't tell you where in your chart that happens. That depends on your houses, and houses depend on your Ascendant (rising sign). Working out the Ascendant needs a reliable birth time and place, because it moves through a whole sign in about two hours on average.
A Sun-sign horoscope that assigns this month to "your eighth house" is counting houses from the Sun sign. That's a looser shortcut, not your actual house. If you're unsure of your time, a birth certificate or hospital record is a better source than a personality description.
See the season against your own chart
The most useful next step is your natal chart. It lists the degree of every planet you were born with, so you can see which ones the Sun passes between October 23 and November 22. With a birth time, it also shows which house Scorpio occupies.
Calculate your free natal chart. If you then want an interpretation of the whole birth chart, the chart page explains the optional paid report before you buy anything. It's a reading of your birth chart, not a forecast for this season.
Calculation notes
Both ingress instants were computed with Lunara's central Swiss Ephemeris helper: apparent geocentric Sun, tropical zodiac, Universal Time, solved to about one second and shown to the nearest minute. Local times use the IANA time-zone rules in force on each date. Sidereal (Vedic) astrology uses a different zero point, so its Scorpio period begins in mid-November instead.
Text written with AI assistance. The dates and times are calculated, not estimated.