Barely into the sign, and entirely inside it
At noon in every year from 1930 to 2035 the Sun on this date has stood between about one and three degrees of Sagittarius. That is a low figure, and low figures attract the suggestion that a placement is somehow not fully settled into its sign. Nothing in the geometry supports that. The Sun sits at one longitude and that longitude is inside Sagittarius, which is a yes or no matter rather than a graded one.
What is true is that the boundary is close in time. Sagittarius opens on 21, 22 or 23 November depending on the year, so this date sits one to three days past it. That is comfortably enough that no birth hour or time zone brings the previous sign back into play, but it is close enough that the dates immediately before this one genuinely are in dispute.
Why the boundary moves and this date does not
The Sun enters Sagittarius at a single global instant, when it reaches two hundred and forty degrees of longitude. Because the tropical year runs about a quarter of a day longer than a common year, that instant arrives roughly six hours later each year, then jumps back by almost a day when February gains a leap day.
The same four year cycle governs the solar degree on any fixed date, which is why the figure quoted here rocks inside a window under two degrees wide rather than drifting. The lowest readings in the cycle come in the year before a leap year and the highest in the year after one.
One consequence is worth stating plainly. Because the drift and the correction very nearly cancel, a date that is safely inside a sign stays safely inside it for as long as anyone needs, and a date that sits on a boundary keeps alternating. This one is in the first group.
The first band of the sign
Each sign divides into three parts of ten degrees, and this position falls in the first of Sagittarius, from zero to ten. The Chaldean order assigns that band to Mercury, which sits oddly inside a sign the tradition gives to Jupiter, since the two planets are treated as opposites in temperament.
The reading handed down for the pairing is Jupiter's reach applied to detail: the sign's appetite for a wider view, but working through argument, language or teaching rather than through movement. A second scheme based on element and sign order gives this band to Sagittarius itself and so to Jupiter unmixed, and both versions circulate. Either way this is inherited convention rather than anything measured, and it is offered on that basis.
What the date leaves untouched
A calendar date can fix the Sun because the Sun moves slowly, about a degree a day. Nothing else in a chart is that obliging. The Moon covers roughly half a sign in a day, so on this date it may be in either of two signs depending on the hour, and which two changes from year to year.
The rising sign turns through all twelve within a day and depends on the latitude of the birthplace as well as the clock, so a birth in Manchester and one in Nairobi at the same local time give different answers. The widget above takes a year, a time and a place and returns the exact solar degree rather than the window, the Moon and rising signs, and the measured distance from the birth to the nearest sign boundary.
Questions people ask about this
Is 24 November Sagittarius or Scorpio?
Sagittarius, in every year from 1930 to 2035. The boundary falls on 21, 22 or 23 November depending on the year, so this date is one to three days past it.
What degree is the Sun on this date?
Between about one and three degrees of Sagittarius at noon across the last century. The widget above computes a single figure from your own year, hour and birthplace.
Does an early degree make the sign weaker?
No. A placement is either inside a sign or outside it, with no middle state. A Sun at two degrees is as much in Sagittarius as one at twenty two.
Which decan does 24 November fall in?
The first decan of Sagittarius, the band from zero to ten degrees. The Chaldean order assigns it to Mercury, while the triplicity scheme leaves it with Jupiter.
Why does the boundary date change between years?
Because the tropical year is not a whole number of days. The ingress arrives about six hours later each year and the February leap day pulls it back by nearly a full day.
Do I still need a birth time?
Not for the sun sign or the band on this date. For the Moon usually yes, and for the rising sign and houses always, along with the birthplace.