Community Day

Community Day is a monthly worldwide 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 Pokémon GO Community Day event starring a special Pokémon, which appears frequently around the world for just a few hours. When caught or evolved during the event, this special Pokémon will know an exclusive move. Other bonuses are in effect during the event, such as increased XP, Stardust, shiny rate and Lure Modules activated during the event last for three hours.^[1]

List of Community Days

No	Date	Pokémon	Attack	Bonuses
1	January 20^th, 2018	Pikachu	Surf	2× XP 3-hour Lures
2	February 24^th, 2018	Dratini	Draco Meteor ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Lures
3	March 25^th, 2018	Bulbasaur	Frenzy Plant ¹	3× catch XP 3-hour Lures
4	April 15^th, 2018	Mareep	Dragon Pulse ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
5	May 19^th, 2018	Charmander	Blast Burn ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Lures
6	June 16^th, 2018 ^[2]	Larvitar	Smack Down ¹	3× catch XP 3-hour Lures
7	July 8^th, 2018 ^[2]	Squirtle ²	Hydro Cannon ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
8	August 11^th–12^th, 2018 ^[2]	Eevee	Last Resort ³	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Lures
9	September 22^nd, 2018	Chikorita	Frenzy Plant ¹	3× catch XP 3-hour Lures
10	October 21^st, 2018 ^[3]	Beldum	Meteor Mash ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
11	November 10^th, 2018 ^[3]	Cyndaquil	Blast Burn ¹	2× catch XP 2× catch Stardust
12	Nov 30^th – Dec 3^rd, 2018	Pokémon featured in 11 previous Community Days.	Various	2× catch XP 2× catch Stardust 1/2 Egg Distance 3-hour Lures
13	January 12^th, 2019	Totodile	Hydro Cannon ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
14	February 16^th, 2019	Swinub	Ancient Power ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Lures
15	March 23^rd, 2019	Treecko	Frenzy Plant ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
16	April 13^th, 2019	Bagon	Outrage ¹	3× catch XP 3-hour Lures
17	May 19^th, 2019 ^[4]	Torchic	Blast Burn ¹ Blaze Kick ⁴	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Lures
18	June 8^th, 2019 ^[4]	Slakoth	Body Slam^[5] ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
19	July 21^st, 2019 ^[4]	Mudkip	Hydro Cannon ¹ Muddy Water ⁴	3× catch XP 3-hour Lures
20	August 3^rd, 2019 ^[4]	Ralts	Synchronoise ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
21	September 15^th, 2019	Turtwig	Frenzy Plant ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Lures
22	October 12^th, 2019	Trapinch	Earth Power ¹	3× catch XP 3-hour Lures
23	November 16^th, 2019	Chimchar	Blast Burn ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
24	Dec 14^th – 15^th, 2019	Pokémon featured in 11 previous Community Days in wild. More in Eggs and Raids.	Various	2× catch XP 2× catch Stardust 1/2 Egg Distance 3-hour Lures
25	January 19^th, 2020 ^[6]	Piplup	Hydro Cannon ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Lures
26	February 22^nd, 2020 ^[7]	Rhyhorn	Rock Wrecker ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Lures
27	April 25^th, 2020 ^[8]	Abra	Counter ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Incense Special Research
28	May 24^th, 2020 ^[9]	Seedot	Bullet Seed ¹	3× catch XP 3-hour Incense Special Research
29	June 20^th, 2020 ^[10]	Weedle	Drill Run ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Incense
30	July 19^th, 2020 ^[11]	Gastly	Shadow Punch ¹	1/4 Egg distance 3-hour Incense Special Research
31	August 8^th, 2020 ^[12]	Magikarp	Aqua Tail ¹	3× catch Stardust 3-hour Incense Special Research
32	September 20^th, 2020 ^[13]	Porygon	Tri Attack ¹	3× catch XP 3-hour Incense Special Research
33	October 17^th, 2020	Charmander	Dragon Breath ¹	TBA

Footnotes:

The featured attack is exclusive to the featured Pokémon's final evolution within its family. In order to obtain the featured Attack, the Pokémon must be evolved fully within the duration of the event. Trainers cannot use TMs to obtain the attack.
By completing Research tasks obtained during the event, there was an encounter of a Squirtle wearing sunglasses as reward. ^[14]
The featured attack was available for all members in its evolution family until 1:00pm PDT on Monday August 13, 2018.^[15]
Beginning on Community Day, Trainers can use TMs to teach this new move to the featured Pokémon's final evolution within its family.

Event hours

Since April 2020 Community Day, the event has been named Community Day: Play at Home Edition, which event hours are from 11:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on local time, with extra two hours to evolve to get the exclusive move.^[8]

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the event duration was three hours based on local time, with extra two hours to evolve to get the exclusive move.

Event hour changes

Since the the March 2019 event, the event times have been based on local time.

From	Until	Start Time
2020, January	2020, February	11:00 A.M. (Northern Hemisphere) 3:00 P.M. (Southern Hemisphere)^[16]
2019, September	2019, December	11:00 A.M.
2019, July	2019, August	4:00 P.M.
2019, March	2019, June	3:00 P.M.^[17]

Original event hours

Region	Start Time	End Time	Time Zone
Africa	11:00 A.M.	2:00 P.M.	UTC (GMT +0)
Americas	11:00 A.M.	2:00 P.M.	PST (GMT -8)
Asia-Pacific	12:00 P.M.	3:00 P.M.	JST (GMT +9)
Europe	11:00 A.M.	2:00 P.M.	UTC (GMT +0)
India	11:00 A.M.	2:00 P.M.	UTC (GMT +0)
Middle East	11:00 A.M.	2:00 P.M.	UTC (GMT +0)
UK	10:00 A.M.	1:00 P.M.	BST (GMT +1) ^[18]

Vote

September and October 2020

The September and October 2020 Community Day featured Pokémon were voted by players.^[19]^[20] The winner and the first runner-up will be featured in September and October respectively. The candidates and their exclusive moves are:

Charmander - Dragon Breath for Charizard
Caterpie - Hurricane for Butterfree
Grimer (Alolan Grimer in Raids) - Fire Punch for both Muk
Porygon - Tri Attack for Porygon-Z, it has chance of decreasing opponent's Attack and Defense.

The vote was available in the official Twitter page on Saturday, August 22, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. PDT (GMT −7) until Sunday, August 23, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. PDT (GMT −7).

June and July 2020

The June and July 2020 Community Day featured Pokémon were voted by players.^[21] The winner and the first runner-up would be featured in June and July respectively. The candidates and their exclusive moves are:

Squirtle - Aura Sphere for Blastoise
Weedle - Drill Run for Beedrill
Sandshrew (Alolan Sandshrew in Raids) - Shadow Claw for both Sandslash
Gastly - Shadow Punch for Gengar

This time, the vote was available in the official Twitter page on Saturday, May 23, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. PDT (GMT −7) until Sunday, May 24, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. PDT (GMT −7).

February 2020

The February 2020 Community Day featured Pokémon was voted by players.^[7] The candidates and their exclusive moves are:

Vulpix (Alolan Vulpix in Raids and Researches) - Fire-type Weather Ball for Ninetales and Ice-type Weather Ball for Alolan Ninetales
Machop - Payback for Machamp
Rhyhorn - Rock Wrecker for Rhyperior
Dratini - Superpower for Dragonite

On February 1^st in your local time zone, every PokéStop had a voting-related task. The requirement of the task were the same for each Pokémon. One research task completed equated to one vote for the Pokémon listed on the completed task. Trainers could complete more than one voting task, and they each count as a vote for the Pokémon listed. The winner, Rhyhorn, was announced on February 3^rd.^[22]

According to dataminers, one more future set will be voted by players: ^[23]

Community Day: Bulbasaur, Exeggcute, Magikarp and Starly.

Special Research

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

Main article: List of shop special offers and promotions#Community Day

Starting with February 2018 Community Day there were several purchasable item bundle boxes from the shop for the time of each Community Day, except July 2018 and February 2019.

Since March 2018 Community Day they've been officially called "Community Day Box" and since May 2018 Community Day these boxes started to use separate graphic asset that would distinguish them from other special offer boxes in the shop.

Gallery

Videos

Don’t slack off on June Community Day, featuring Slakoth!

July Community Day—Don’t skip out on Mudkip!

Waltz with Ralts into August Community Day!

September Community Day—branch out with Turtwig!

Get fired up for Chimchar on November Community Day!

December Pokémon GO Community Day

Trivia

Not counting December, Community Days happen on either Saturdays or Sundays.
- Except for August, 2018 event which happens on both Saturday and Sunday of that month.
Fast TMs and Charged TMs don't grant exclusive moves during Community Day.
- However, exclusively, during the first Community Day in January, 2018 Charged TMs could grant any previously captured Pikachu Surf.
Unlocking the second Charged Attack does not grant exclusive moves during Community Day.
Research done by player community estimates that there was a 1 in 22.7 chance of capturing a shiny Pikachu.^[24]
- The same 1 in 22.7 chance of catching shiny variant of featured Pokémon applies to the next 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.^[25]
The August 2018 Community Day was the first multi-day event and featured split-evolutions.
Following the conclusion September 2018 Community Day event, players reported sightings of an undiscovered Pokémon, who was later identified as Meltan, which turned into Ditto once captured.
The September 2018 Community Day allowed Trainers to evolve their Bayleef up to 30 minutes after the event had ended.
From the October 2018 to August 2019 Community Day, Trainers were allowed to evolve their Pokemon up to an hour after the event had ended.
Due to serious issues impacting October 2018 Community Day in the Asia-Pacific region, an additional Community Day was held on October 28^th, 2018.^[26]^[27]
Due to server issues impacting April 2019 Community Day in GMT +8, +9 and +10 time zones, affected events were extended for two hours.^[28]^[29] However, Niantic forgot to extend the evolution period. Outrage was not available for Salamence until ~8:30 P.M. local time.^[30]
Due to the weather function was down during June 2019 Community Day on EMEA region, there was no increased spawn of Slakoth during the event hour.^[31] Niantic later announced Slakoth Day will return on July 4^th to 7^th. It was also stated that Slakoth spawn won't affect Pokémon appearance in Dortmund Pokémon GO Fest 2019.^[32]
Due to a serious typhoon in Japan, the October 2019 Community Day in Japan was postponed to October 26^th.^[33]^[34]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the March 2020 Community Day had been postponed.^[35] This is the first Community Day that was postponed worldwide. The exclusive move for Alakazam was still unknown at this point.
- Abra Community Day was rescheduled on April 25^th. Niantic called it as Community Day: Play at Home Edition.^[8]