Events

**Events** are either in-game or both in-game and real-world themed celebrations, normally related to special occasions and holidays. Events can last few hours, or several weeks. Since the GO Beyond update, events occurr within Seasons. During events, there are various temporal changes to the game that can be applied (bonuses and perks for Trainers) such as:

* Multiplied Stardust, Candy and XP for several actions such as hatch, catch, transfer, evolving and battling.
* Increase of Incubator efficiency.
* Reduced buddy distance and trading cost.
* Extended duration of Star Piece, Lucky Egg, Lure Modules and Incense.
* Release of specific Pokémon species, forms, shiny and shadow variants.
* Specific Pokémon wearing costumes.
* Specific Pokémon spawns increased.
* Specific Pokémon in temporary Eggs, Raid Battles and Research tasks.
* Special Photobombs.
* Release of Special or Timed Research tasks.
* Release of Collection Challenges
* PokéStop Showcases.
* Release or availability of avatar items and stickers.
* Location Cards and Challengers.
* Specific attacks.
* Special shop offer.
* Team GO Rocket related bonuses.
* Special decoration in the Map View.

Each event can vary in its availability:

* **Ticketed events**: most events are free to play, but some can only be accessible by tickets. In some events, non-ticket holders can access some bonuses from the ticketed events.
* **Regional events**: some events are only available in specific regions. For instance, some events happened only on Europe, Latin American and the Caribbean, Asia or specifically on Japan or US.
* **Real-world events**: some events can be a real-world event or be tied-in with some real-world event.

In this wiki, the events are classified in three major excluding categories:

* **Unique events**: events that happened only once.
* **Seasonal events**: events that happened more than once, in general, once a year. Normally, these events are related to real-world holidays.
* **Recurring events**: events that happened more than once a year, and are not seasonal events.

For a complete list of Unique, Seasonal and Recurring events, and more information about each event:

 **Main article:** *List of Events*

## Unique Events

Events that happened only once in the game, are in the Unique events category. These events can happen due several reasons such as, but not limited to:

* Promotion of a Niantic game, or Pokémon Company game or movie. For instance, Ingress Prime Celebration to celebrate the release of *Ingress Prime* and Alolan Exeggutor Event to celebrate the announcement of *Let's Go, Pikachu & Let's Go, Eevee*.
* Start or end of a Season. For instance, Welcome to Alola and Alola to Alola to celebrate the start and end of Season of Alola.
* Release of a new game mechanic. For instance, A Mega Moment for the release of Mega levels
* Real-word dates. For instance, World Tourism Day

## Seasonal events

Events that happened more than once, in general, once a year, are in the Seasonal events category. This includes:

* events are related to real-world holidays such as Christmas and holiday season, Halloween and Day of the Dead, New Year and Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, Earth Day, Easter, Solstice and Equinox,Festival of Colors, and April Fools' Day.
* unique Pokémon GO events that happened to get a re-run in other years and are also included in this category (Adventure Week, Battle Showdown, Bug Out, Fashion Week, Friendship Event, Psychic Spectacular, Water Festival, Stardust Blast, Hatchathon, Secrets of the Jungle, Kanto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh Celebration).
* the yearly events Pokémon GO Anniversary, the Pokémon Day event, the Pokémon GO Championship Series tie-in event, and the Global Challenge are also included in this category.

## Recurring events

Events that happened more than once a year, and are not seasonal events, are recurring events. In this category are included Community Days, Pokémon GO Fest, Pokémon GO Safari Zones, Pokémon GO Special Weekends, Pokémon GO Week in Korea, Limited Researches, Incense Days, and Friendship Days.

There are also some event-like game mechanics such as Special Raid Challenge, Special Raid Event, Legendary Raid Hour, Pokémon Spotlight Hour, Pokémon Air Adventures, GO Battle Day, Nest migrations and Mystery Bonus Hour.

### Community Day

Community Day is the first regular recurring event that mostly lasts few-hours on one, particular day of each month and during it players can catch a Pokémon with an exclusive move that cannot be obtain normally in game play. During this event players have a significantly higher chance of obtaining shiny variant of featured Pokémon. It occurs regularly since Jan 20th, 2018.

 **Main article:** *Community Day*
### Pokémon GO Fest

Pokémon GO Fest is a recurring, regional, real-world event, that happens in different locations around the globe. The events give Trainers the ability to catch region-exclusive Pokémon that do not usually appear in these regions. It occurs irregularly since Aug 12th, 2017.

 **Main article:** *Pokémon GO Fest*
### Pokémon GO Safari Zone

Pokémon GO Safari Zone is a recurring, regional, real-world event, that happens in different locations around the globe. The events give Trainers the ability to catch region-exclusive Pokémon that do not usually appear in these regions. It occurs irregularly since Aug 12th, 2017. Since 2023, a new format of Safari Zone named Pokémon GO City Safari was held by Niantic. Instead of exploring a specific location, the new safari format enables the Trainer to explore the whole hosting city.

 **Main article:** *Pokémon GO Safari Zone*
### Hatch Day

Hatch Day is a recurring event themed around hatching Eggs for specific Pokémon.

 **Main article:** *Hatch Day*
### Limited Research

Limited Research is a recurring that is hosted for a few hours and features exclusive Research tasks that may reward a Trainer with a shiny Pokémon. It occurs irregularly since Jan 19th, 2019.

 **Main article:** *Limited Research*
### Special Raid Challenge

Special Raid Challenge is a recurring event that is hosted during a three-hour window and features a Pokémon as Raid Boss. This Pokémon may know one or more limited or legacy attacks and may also have a chance to be shiny. All Trainers receive up to five Raid Passes from Gyms at no cost. It occurs irregularly since Jul 7th, 2018.

 **Main article:** *Special Raid Challenge*
### Special Raid Event

Special Raid Event (also dubbed Week or Weekend) is a recurring event that is hosted during a short period of time and features a returning Legendary Raid Boss which may have a chance to be shiny. It occurs irregularly since Dec 14th, 2018.

 **Main article:** *Special Raid Event*
### Legendary Raid Hour

Legendary Raid Hour is recurring event that turns every available Gym to a specific Raid Boss during one hour. It usually occurs on Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in local time zone. It occurs regularly since Mar 13th, 2019.

 **Main article:** *Legendary Raid Hour*
### Pokémon Spotlight Hour

Pokémon Spotlight Hour is weekly event that took place for the first time in February, 2020. It occurs on Tuesdays and lasts one hour. During the event there is increased number of Pokémon to appear in wild. When particular Pokémon species is featured in this event and it has its Shiny form released prior to the specific Spotlight Hour, there is a higher probability of catching it due to the increased spawns. It occurs regularly since Feb 4th, 2020.

 **Main article:** *Pokémon Spotlight Hour*
### Incense Day

Incense Day was a recurring event in which Incense were the only methods to attract the featured Pokémon. Each event had a specific Pokémon with high spawn rate throughout the process, as well as other themed-Pokémon in divided hours. An Incense special offer was available in the shop during these events.

 **Main article:** *Incense Day*
### Pokémon Air Adventures

Pokémon Air Adventures is a recurring, regional event that took place for the first time in July, 2021. It features specific regional spawns to celebrate travel around the world.

 **Main article:** *Pokémon Air Adventures*
### GO Battle Day

GO Battle Night is a recurring event revolving around GO Battle League. Trainers can complete additional sets of GO Battle League matches and stardust bonus may be applied.

 **Main article:** *GO Battle Day*
### PokéStop Showcase

PokéStop Showcases are a recurring event where players contests at PokéStops in Pokémon GO during certain events. PokéStop Showcases allow Trainers to leave a Pokémon at a PokéStop to enter a timed exhibit for rewards. It occurs regularly since June 25th, 2023.

 **Main article:** *PokéStop Showcase*
### Nest migrations

Nest Migrations are the technical changes to the game rather than ongoing events in which Pokémon Nests changes species which spawns in the specific locations. It occurs regularly since Jul 29th, 2016.

 **Main article:** *Nest migrations*
## Discontinued recurring events

Some recurring events have not been continued in years which are possibly officially discontinued by Niantic.

### Pokémon GO Special Weekend

Pokémon GO Special Weekend was a recurring, regional, real-world event

 **Main article:** *Pokémon GO Special Weekend*
### Pokémon GO Week in Korea

Pokémon GO Special Weekend was a recurring, regional event in Korea.

 **Main article:** *Pokémon GO Week in Korea*
### Friendship Day

Friendship Day was a intended recurring event that occurred only once.

 **Main article:** *Friendship Day*
### Mystery Bonus Hour

Mystery Bonus Hour was a recurring event that solely featured bonuses for Candy, Stardust, or XP. It occurred on Thursday evenings in local time zones before being discontinued as a separate event and merged with Pokémon Spotlight Hour. It is discontinued and occurred from Feb 6th, 2020 to Apr 2nd, 2020.

 **Main article:** *Mystery Bonus Hour*
## Event Pokémon

Event Pokémon are Pokémon that have unique accessories or clothing such at hats, glasses or scarves and can only be obtained during an special event. They cannot be mass-transferred, similar to Legendary, Mythical, or Shiny Pokémon.

 **Main article:** *Event Pokémon*
## External links

* Pokémon GO Live, Events page
* Pokémon GO - Events page, on Serebii.net
* Pokémon GO - Real Life Events page, on Serebii.net
* Pokémon GO - Unown Events page, on Serebii.net