Pokémon GO Fest 2024: Global

Upgrade your experience with an event ticket!

You can upgrade your experience with an event ticket, which you can purchase now via the in-game shop or the Pokémon GO Web Store. Trainers with an event ticket will receive special bonuses and rewards—including an encounter with Mythical Pokémon Marshadow!

Learn more about ticket holder perks here.

Habitat Rotation

All Trainers will have the opportunity to enjoy each habitat hour twice during event hours on Saturday!

Dawn Meadow

• 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. local time
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. local time

Shining Day

• 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. local time
• 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time

Creeping Dusk

• 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. local time
• 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time

Darkest Night

• 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. local time
• 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time

Ultra Unlock: Bonuses

• 2× Catch Candy
• 4× Catch XP
• Friendship levels will increase faster than normal through opening Gifts, trading Pokémon, or battling together in raids, Gyms, or Trainer Battles

Ultra Unlock, Part 2: Strength of Steel

Thanks to Trainers completing 20 Global Challenges, Strength of Steel will run from Thursday, July 25, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. to Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. local time!

For the first time in Pokémon GO, Trainers will be able to encounter Shiny Togedemaru if they’re lucky!

Togedemaru

Special Backgrounds during Pokémon GO Fest 2024: Global

On Saturday, July 13, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time, all Trainers will have a chance of receiving Special Backgrounds from Ultra Beasts and Necrozma in five-star raids after making a successful catch!

On Sunday, July 14, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time, all Trainers will have a chance of receiving Special Backgrounds from Necrozma in five-star raids after making a successful catch! Ticket-holding Trainers will also encounter a Solgaleo or Lunala with a Special Background as a part of their ticketed Special Research. When fused with Necrozma with a Special Background, the resulting Dusk Mane Necrozma or Dawn Wings Necrozma will have its own variant of the background!

Learn more about Special Backgrounds here!

Ultra Unlock

During each habitat hour on Saturday, ticket-holding Trainers around the world can work together to complete a Global Challenge! If the challenge is completed in time, a special bonus will be unlocked for the remainder of the hour for ticket-holding Trainers.

Plus, if Trainers complete 20 challenges successfully, they will activate this year’s Pokémon GO Fest Ultra Unlock events!

Ultra Unlock, Part 1: Better Together

Better Together will run from Wednesday, July 17, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. to Monday, July 22, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. local time.

Ultra Unlock: Pokémon debuts

Tandemaus and its evolution, Maushold, will make their Pokémon GO debuts! Trainers will be able to use 50 Tandemaus Candy to evolve Tandemaus into Maushold.

Tandemaus

Maushold Family Of Four

Maushold Family Of Three

Ultra Unlock: Mega Pokémon Debut

Mega Lucario will make its Pokémon GO debut in Mega Raids!

Mega Lucario

✨ If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one!

Ultra Unlock, Part 3: Mega Lucario Raid Day

Thanks to Trainers completing 20 Global Challenges, Mega Lucario Raid Day will take place on Saturday, July 27, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time!

Field Research bonanza

On Saturday, July 13, Trainers will be able to collect Field Research tasks from PokéStops that change each hour from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time!

Ultra Unlock: Free Timed Research

Timed Research featuring encounters with Tandemaus and other event-themed Pokémon will be available throughout the event.

Tandemaus