Leo Compatibility

Who is Leo most compatible with?

Aries and Sagittarius score highest with Leo, and Pisces scores lowest. The cards below run from highest score to lowest. Dates are approximate; sign boundaries vary by year and time zone.

• fire · cardinal · March 21 – April 19

  Leo and Aries Compatibility

  90%

  Takes your side before you've finished the story, then dares you to go further. Leo answers with loyalty and expects the same back. Friendship is the high point, tied for the top of Leo's chart. Talk is the lowest area, and still strong.

  Aries and Leo compatibility, in full →

• fire · mutable · November 22 – December 21

  Leo and Sagittarius Compatibility

  90%

  Tells your story to strangers, a little bigger every time, so its friends end up knowing your best moments by heart. Friendship is the high point, tied for the top of Leo's chart. Talk and marriage share the lowest score, still strong.

  Leo and Sagittarius compatibility, in full →

• air · mutable · May 21 – June 20

  Leo and Gemini Compatibility

  82%

  Quotes your best line back to the whole group, usually as a joke, so it can sound like teasing. Friendship ties for the top of Leo's chart and talk is close behind. Sex and marriage share the lowest score, both still good.

  Gemini and Leo compatibility, in full →

• air · cardinal · September 23 – October 22

  Leo and Libra Compatibility

  82%

  Compliments how you handled the room, graciously and in front of people, so a Leo can mistake it for manners. Friendship ties for Leo's best and talk is excellent too. Marriage is the lowest area, still good.

  Leo and Libra compatibility, in full →

• fire · fixed · July 23 – August 22

  Leo and Leo Compatibility

  77%

  Raises a toast back, and sometimes a rival's respect. Two people this generous rarely run short of affection. Friendship is the strongest area. Marriage is the weakest, still good, because a shared life means someone takes second billing.

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• air · fixed · January 20 – February 18

  Leo and Aquarius Compatibility

  73%

  Praises your ideas once and assumes you remember, so if you need to hear it again, say so. Leo brings the warmth Aquarius rarely asks for. Sex ties Aries for Leo's top score. Friendship is the lowest area, still good, with talk just above it.

  Leo and Aquarius compatibility, in full →

• water · cardinal · June 21 – July 22

  Leo and Cancer Compatibility

  54%

  Cooks your favorite on the big day and keeps the photo in a drawer: pride as care, mostly at home. Every area is mixed. Friendship scores highest and talk lowest, so a Leo who wants it said out loud may have to ask.

  Cancer and Leo compatibility, in full →

• earth · mutable · August 23 – September 22

  Leo and Virgo Compatibility

  52%

  Improves your draft before saying it's good, which is how it takes you seriously, and a Leo's warmth can help a Virgo relax. All five areas are mixed, with friendship a little ahead and love and sex level at the bottom. Read the notes as interest, not judgment.

  Leo and Virgo compatibility, in full →

• earth · fixed · April 20 – May 20

  Leo and Taurus Compatibility

  43%

  Shows pride with things, never speeches: the good seats, the jacket mended before you saw the tear. Sex is the best of it, in the good band. Talk is the hardest area, two fixed signs who each wait for the other to bend.

  Taurus and Leo compatibility, in full →

• water · fixed · October 23 – November 21

  Leo and Scorpio Compatibility

  42%

  Says it once, plainly, in private, and almost never in front of anyone. Sex is the strongest area and the only good one. Talk is the lowest score on Leo's whole chart, since one fixed sign says everything and the other says very little.

  Leo and Scorpio compatibility, in full →

• earth · cardinal · December 22 – January 19

  Leo and Capricorn Compatibility

  40%

  Trusts you with something that matters to it. That's respect rather than applause, and easy to miss if you're listening for cheers. Sex is the best area here, still mixed. Love and talk share the bottom, both challenging.

  Leo and Capricorn compatibility, in full →

• water · mutable · February 19 – March 20

  Leo and Pisces Compatibility

  39%

  Notices the nerves you thought you'd hidden and calls you brave, which is about how you felt, not how it looked. Sex is the best of it, mixed. Love, talk and marriage share the lowest score, and Pisces comes last overall.

  Leo and Pisces compatibility, in full →

Score Leo with any sign

Two birth dates give a Full chart score across both whole charts, with no birth time and no account needed. For a Sign score, switch to Simple, where Leo is filled in and you pick the other Sun sign.

Our calculation service uses Lx Ephemeris, built on NASA JPL's DE440. Read about the data and precision. The historical date tables below use a separate PyEphem calculation.

How does each sign show it's proud of you?

You ran your first half marathon. One person you're seeing posted your finish photo with eleven fire emojis before you'd caught your breath. The other was waiting past the finish line with your sweatshirt and a bottle of water, and said "good run".

The emojis are easy to read. The sweatshirt is the kind a Leo tends to miss, and from some signs it's the bigger compliment. Before you decide someone isn't interested because they didn't make a fuss, look at how their sign tends to show it, and then ask them.

Leo best matches: Aries, Sagittarius, Gemini and Libra

Aries and Sagittarius, Leo's fellow fire signs, tie at the top of the chart and again for love and marriage. Their pride sounds most like a Leo's own: fast, loud and public. Day to day, Aries wants to act now and Sagittarius wants to go somewhere new. With Aries, the loyalty is real, and so is the arguing at home that comes with it, which is the whole subject of Aries and Leo on each other's side. With Sagittarius, watch what happens after the bragging, because a Sagittarius shows it's serious by booking things, not by saying so.

Gemini and Libra, the air signs two places away, tie just behind. Their strongest shared ground with Leo is friendship and conversation, and both praise you in words. The friction with these two is over something else: who gets the credit when you made something together with a Gemini, and who makes the call with a Libra.

Another Leo comes fifth. Between two Leos, admiration often shows up as rivalry first, and two Leos do better on separate stages. Aquarius, the opposite sign, is sixth: it ties Aries for Leo's top sex score, and its friendship has to be built on purpose. If you're in one of those, start with whether you'd still pick each other as friends.

Who is Leo not compatible with? Pisces, Capricorn, Scorpio and Taurus

Pisces comes last on the Leo chart and Capricorn sits just above it. Both are five signs from Leo, with no shared element, modality or easy angle. Scorpio and Taurus, the fixed signs that square Leo, come next: more friction, and more heat, since sex is the best area with both. Cancer and Virgo, the neighbors on either side, sit in the middle, mixed in every area.

With these four, praise tends to come quietly. Taurus and Capricorn show it in practical support; Scorpio and Pisces in what they notice and remember about you. A Leo who measures interest by volume can read all four as cold.

So a low score and a quiet partner are two different problems. The score tells you where the friction sits: a Leo up at dawn and a Pisces up at midnight, a Capricorn who's impressed but not yet close, one partner who tells everyone and one who waits, or two fixed signs deciding who bends. Ask for the reassurance you need. Practical help can matter to you without replacing the words.

July Leo or August Leo compatibility: what the birth month changes

The chart is the same for every Leo, because it reads the Sun alone. The birth month changes what sits near the Sun. Venus was in Gemini on 127 of the 499 July Leo dates in our 1950–2005 sample, and on only 49 of the 1,253 August dates. Mercury runs the other way: it was in Virgo on 588 of the 1,253 August Leo dates, and on just 59 of the 499 July ones.

Astrologers read a Gemini Venus as affection that runs on talk and play, so a July Leo can warm to Gemini, Libra and Aquarius faster than the Sun list suggests. A Virgo Mercury is precise and noticing, the kind of mind that respects a careful edit, which can make an August Leo the one who hears a Virgo's notes as praise. A July Leo is also likelier to have Mercury in Cancer, the sign before, and to talk about feelings first.

So before you take the list as final, find your Venus sign from your birth date and check which sign Mercury was in. The Cancer and Leo pairing is worth a read for July Leos with a Cancer Mercury or Venus, since how big to make a celebration is where those two signs usually clash.

Leo marriage compatibility: who scores highest for the long run

For marriage, Aries and Sagittarius tie at the top again, and they're the only two signs that reach the strong band with Leo for it. Gemini and Libra come next, then Aquarius, then another Leo. Pisces has Leo's lowest marriage score, with Scorpio and Capricorn just above it.

A Leo marriage runs on being proud of each other in public and not feeling outshone at home. The fire signs do the first without being asked. With Gemini and Libra, marriage is the area that trails, so put the dull parts of a shared life on the calendar along with the fun ones. With a quiet sign, ask how your partner shows support, and say when you need to hear it out loud. The chart is the same for a Leo woman and a Leo man; Venus and Mars are where individual style shows.

For a real couple, astrologers look past the Suns to each person's Moon, Venus and Saturn. A free birth chart gives you those from a birth date, time and place, and both whole charts can be scored against each other once you have the second person's details.

Leo friendship compatibility: four signs tie at the top

Aries, Gemini, Libra and Sagittarius all tie for Leo's best friendship score, and another Leo isn't far behind. Scorpio scores lowest as a friend, with Taurus and Pisces just above. A Leo friend is usually the one who throws the party, remembers your birthday and quietly expects you to remember theirs.

Between siblings, two fire signs compete loudly and make up fast. A Leo with an earth or water sibling can spend years thinking that sibling isn't impressed, when they simply don't say it. At work, agree early who presents and who handles the follow-up. For family, astrologers often compare Moon signs before Suns. The Moon sign pairings for family and friends cover that, and your Sun, Moon and rising from a birth time give you the three to start from.

Venus, Mercury and Mars on Leo Sun dates

Mars was retrograde on only 96 of the 1,752 Leo Sun dates in our 1950–2005 sample, the fewest of any sign; Aries dates had 244. On those 96 dates Mars was never in Leo itself. It stood in Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn or Sagittarius.

Astrologers read a retrograde Mars as drive that turns inward before it acts, so it's an unusual placement on a Leo birthday. If you'd like to know whether yours is one of the rare ones, look up your Mars sign from your birth date.

Venus is the bigger spread. It was in Leo on only 20.7% of sampled Leo Sun dates and in Virgo or Cancer on most of the rest, so two Leos with the same Sun can want very different kinds of praise. A Leo whose Venus is in Leo too is the one who asks for it out loud, and a Leo Venus's wish to be adored has its own guide.

Leo compatibility questions