Community Day is a monthly worldwide recurring event in Pokémon GO dedicated to celebrate players in the Pokémon GO community.[1]
Features[]
Pokémon GO Community Day is an opportunity for Trainers around the world to meet up at their local parks to make new friends and experience what it means to be a part of this special community.[1]
Once a month, Niantic hosts a Community Day event starring specific Pokémon, which appears frequently around the world for a few hours. When caught or evolved during the event, this special Pokémon will know an exclusive move. Other bonuses can be in effect during the event, such as increased XP, Stardust, reduced distance to hatch Eggs, increased shiny rate, 3-hour Lure Modules, or 3-hour Incense.[1]
Each December event is a special edition featuring the Pokémon and Moves from the current and previous year. December events last for two days and have additional bonuses.
List of Community Days[]
All these events featured 3-hour Lures bonus:
Previous Pokémon and moves
Nov 30th - Dec 3rd, 2018
2× catch XP, 2× catch Stardust, and 1/2 Egg Distance
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from April 2020 to March 2022, the event was named Community Day: Play at Home Edition and featured new bonuses, Special Researches, and event duration. For further details, check each individual event's page.
Due to the mitigation of COVID-19 pandemic, since April 2022, the Play at Home Edition event duration has been reverted and the Group Play Bonuses have been implemented. For further details, check each individual event's page.
Community Day Classic[]
Since January 2022, an extra event named Community Day Classic was introduced. The event revisits Pokémon that have been featured in past Community Days.
Event hours[]
From January 2018 to February 2019, the Community Day event hours were based on specific time zones and regions. Since the March 2019 event, the event times have been based on local time. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, during April 2020 to March 2022, the event was named Community Day: Play at Home Edition, and the duration of the event was changed from three hours to six hours. Since April 2022, the event duration has been reverted back to 3 hours.
Since January 2022, Community Day Classic was introduced, with a three-hour event duration.
Community Days happen on either Saturdays or Sundays.
| Events | Region | Start Time | End Time | Time Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since September 2022 | Worldwide | 2:00 P.M. | 5:00 P.M. | Local time |
| Since January 2022 (Community Day Classic) | ||||
| April 2022 to August 2022 | 11:00 A.M./2:00 P.M. | 2:00 P.M./5:00 P.M. | ||
| March 2020 to March 2022 | 11:00 A.M. | 5:00 P.M. | ||
| January to February 2020 | Northern Hemisphere | 11:00 A.M.[5] | 2:00 PM | |
| Southern Hemisphere | 3:00 P.M. | 6:00 P.M. | ||
| September to December 2019 | Worldwide | 11:00 A.M. | 2:00 P.M. | |
| July to August 2019 | 4:00 P.M. | 7:00 P.M. | ||
| March to June 2019 | 3:00 P.M.[6] | 6:00 P.M. | ||
| January 2018 to February 2019 | Asia-Pacific | 12:00 P.M. | 3:00 P.M. | JST (GMT +9) |
| Americas | 11:00 A.M. | 2:00 P.M. | PST (GMT -8) | |
| Africa, Europe, India and Middle East | UTC (GMT +0) | |||
| UK | BST (GMT +1) [7] |
The December events and the Eevee Community Days had different event periods. For details access each event individual page.
| Events | Days |
|---|---|
| December Community Day since 2019 | Saturday and Sunday |
| August 2021 - Eevee | Friday to Monday |
| December 2018 | Friday to Monday |
| August 2018 - Eevee1 | Saturday and Sunday |
- The featured attack was available for all members in its evolution family until 1:00pm PDT on August 13th, 2018.[8]
Exclusive Moves[]
The featured attack is generally exclusive to the featured Pokémon's final evolution within its family, with few exceptions applying to the non-final evolution of the family. Trainers cannot use TMs to obtain the attack with exception of January 2018 event. Unlocking the second Charged Attack does not grant exclusive moves during Community Day.
In order to obtain the featured Attack, the Pokémon must be evolved fully within the duration of the event or during the additional hours.
| Events | Additional time |
|---|---|
| Since June 2022 | 5 hours |
| Since January 2022 (Community Day Classic) |
2 hours |
| September 2019 to May 2022 | |
| October 2018 to August 2019 | 1 hour |
| September 2018 | 30 minutes |
Voting[]
The following Community Days were chosen by Trainer's votes. For details, see each individual event's page.
| Event | Candidates |
|---|---|
| September and October 2020 |     |
| June and July 2020 |     |
| February 2020 |     |
According to dataminers, there was an additional set of candidates for a vote.[9] However, it is believed that this set was abandoned.
    |
Special Research[]
- Main article: List of Special Research tasks#Community Day
Since the Abra Community Day, for US$1 (or the equivalent in local currency), the player can unlock a Community Day–exclusive Special Research series.
Shop special offer[]
Starting with February 2018 Community Day, there are several purchasable item bundle boxes from the shop during each Community Day, except for July 2018 and February 2019.
Since the March 2018 Community Day, these boxes have been officially called "Community Day Box". Since the May 2018 Community Day, these boxes started to use separate graphic assets that would distinguish them from the other ones in the shop.
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Research done by the player community estimates that there was a 1 in 22.7 chance of capturing a shiny Pikachu.[10]
- The same 1 in 22.7 chance of catching shiny variant of featured Pokémon applies to all Community Days.
- With game update to version 0.101.0, there was graphic asset called "Community Day Box" added to the game files.
- During the Dratini Community Day, until February 26, all 58 Unibail-Rodamco Pokémon GO shopping center locations across Europe activated Lure Modules at the PokéStops in their shopping centers from 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. local time.[11]
- Following the conclusion of the September 2018 Community Day event, players reported sightings of an undiscovered Pokémon, who was later identified as Meltan, which turned into Ditto once captured.
- Due to serious issues impacting the October 2018 Community Day in the Asia-Pacific region, an additional Community Day was held on October 28th, 2018.[12][13]
- Due to server issues impacting the April 2019 Community Day in the GMT +8, +9 and +10 time zones, affected events were extended for two hours.[14][15] However, Niantic forgot to extend the evolution period. Outrage was not available for Salamence until ~8:30 P.M. local time.[16]
- Niantic has never acknowledged this mistake in public.
- Due to an issue where the weather function was down during the June 2019 Community Day for the EMEA region, there was no increased spawns of Slakoth during the event hour.[17] Niantic later announced that Slakoth Day would return from July 4th to 7th. It was also stated that Slakoth spawns would not affect Pokémon appearance during Pokémon GO Fest 2019 Dortmund.[18]
- Due to Typhoon Hagibis affecting Japan, the October 2019 Community Day was postponed to October 26th in the country.[19][20]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Introducing Pokémon GO Community Day!. Pokémon GO Live. Retrieved on 2018-01-13.
- ↑ You'll Need a Bigger Bottle of Sunscreen for Our Pokémon GO Summer Events 2019! Pokémon GO Live. Retrieved on 2019-04-04.
- ↑ SerebiiNet. (2019, May 22). Serebii Update: Official Taiwanese Pokémon GO Twitter account states the move Slaking gets in next month's Community Day is Body Slam. Twitter. Retrieved on 2019-05-23.
- ↑ Pokémon GO 2019 year in review. Pokémon GO Live. Retrieved on 2019-12-17.
- ↑ Updated January Community Day times for Northern and Southern Hemispheres Pokémon GO Live. Retrieved on 2019-12-18.
- ↑ NianticHelp. New for March Community Day. Twitter. Retrieved on 2019-02-22.
- ↑ NianticHelp. (2018, March 21). Attn: UK Community Day attendees!. Twitter. Retrieved on 2018-03-22.
- ↑ PokemonGoApp. (2018, August 8). Our special Community Day weekend has one more surprise for you! You can evolve your Eevee until 1 P.M. PDT on Monday, August 13, and its Evolution will know the exclusive move Last Resort!. Twitter. Retrieved on 2018-08-10.
- ↑ Voting Quests Twitter. Retrieved on 2020-03-09.
- ↑ Estimating Community Day's Boosted Shiny Rate. /r/TheSilphRoad. Retrieved on 2018-01-31.
- ↑ PokemonGo Blog. Pokémon GO Fun and Festivities at Unibail-Rodamco Shopping Centers in February!. Twitter. Retrieved on 2020-07-16.
- ↑ PokemonGoApp. Attention, Trainers. We apologize for gameplay issues impacting Community Day in the Asian-Pacific region. We will be holding an additional Beldum Community Day for Asia-Pacific Trainers to make up for the inconvenience.. Twitter. Retrieved on 2018-10-31.
- ↑ PokemonGoApp. Due to gameplay issues impacting Community Day in the Asian-Pacific region, we will be holding an additional Beldum Community Day for Trainers in the Asia-Pacific region on October 28, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. JST.. Twitter. Retrieved on 2018-10-31.
- ↑ NianticHelp. Trainers, we're still working on resolving the server issues. We have extended Community Day for an extra hour for the affected time zones (GMT+8, GMT+9 and GMT+10).. Twitter. Retrieved on 2019-04-13.
- ↑ NianticHelp. The server issues have been addressed and we have extended Community Day for an additional hour for the affected time zones (GMT+7, GMT+8, GMT+9 and GMT+10).. Twitter. Retrieved on 2019-04-13.
- ↑ Evolution is NOT extended to 9pm (GMT +8), just evolved my Shelgon and got DM instead of Outrage.. /r/TheSilphRoad. Retrieved on 2019-04-13.
- ↑ NianticHelp. Trainers, we are aware of gameplay issues that impacted the EMEA region during Community Day. Please stay tuned for a future announcement that includes the return of Slakoth later this summer.. Twitter. Retrieved on 2019-06-11.
- ↑ NianticHelp. (2019, June 25). Attention Trainers in EMEA: Starting July 4th at 10am CEST until July 7th at 6pm CEST, Slakoth will be appearing more frequently in your region. Twitter. Retrieved on 2019-06-26.
- ↑ October Community Day in Japan postponed due to typhoon. /r/TheSilphRoad. Retrieved on 2019-10-26.
- ↑ Postponed Japan Trapinch Community Day will take place on Saturday October 26th. /r/TheSilphRoad. Retrieved on 2019-10-26.
