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Winter Holiday Part 2

Event
From Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:00 Until Monday, December 29, 2025 at 20:00


*Reach Major Milestones on your GO Pass: Winter Holiday 2025 to unlock the following bonuses.


Bonuses


Bonus

Catching event-themed Pokémon in the wild may award items such as Fast TMs, Charged TMs, Silver Pinap Berries, Golden Razz Berries, and Rare Candy.

Bonus

Increased chance to encounter Shiny Stantler wearing a holiday outfit and Shiny Dedenne wearing holiday attire.

Bonus

Tier 1: 2× XP from sending Gifts*

Bonus

Tier 1: GO Pass Deluxe: 2× Stardust from opening Gifts*

Bonus

Tier 2: Additional items may be rewarded from opening Gifts*

Bonus

Tier 2: GO Pass Deluxe: 1/2 Egg Hatch Distance when Eggs are placed in an Incubator during the event period*

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Tier 3: 50% more XP for winning Raid Battles*

Bonus

Tier 3: GO Pass Deluxe: 2× XP from catching Pokémon*


Pokémon Debuts

The following Pokémon first discovered in the Galar region will make their Pokémon GO debuts!

  • Rolycoly
  • Carkol
  • Coalossal

You can use 25 Rolycoly Candy to evolve Rolycoly into Carkol, and 100 Rolycoly Candy to evolve Carkol into Coalossal.

Wild Encounters

Trainers may encounter event-themed Pokémon in the wild, including Galarian Darumaka*, Bergmite*, Cetoddle*, and more! You might even encounter Dedenne wearing holiday attire* or Rolycoly!

*If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one.

Some Trainers might even encounter the following!
Eggs

The following Pokémon will hatch from 7 km Eggs:

  • Pichu wearing a festive hat*
  • Smoochum*
  • Cubchoo wearing a holiday ribbon*
  • Cryogonal*
  • Snom

*If you’re lucky, you may hatch a Shiny one!

Raids

The following Pokémon will appear in raids:

One-Star Raids

  • Alolan Sandshrew*
  • Galarian Darumaka*
  • Rolycoly

Three-Star Raids

  • Galarian Mr. Mime*
  • Sudowoodo wearing holiday attire*
  • Charjabug wearing holiday attire*

*If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny one.

Field Research

Event-themed Field Research tasks will be available!

Complete these tasks to earn Stardust and encounters with event-themed Pokémon.