Lunar New Year 2021
Starts:
Tuesday, February 9, 2021, at 10:00 AM Local Time
Ends:
Sunday, February 14, 2021, at 1:00 PM Local Time
Our Lunar New Year event is back! From Tuesday, February 9, 2021, to Sunday, February 14, 2021, encounter red Pokémon and celebrate the Year of the Ox! A special Mega-Evolved Pokémon will also be appearing in Mega Raids for the first time at the start of this event!
Features
- Event-exclusive Field Research tasks will reward encounters with Meowth, Alolan Meowth, Galarian Meowth, Meditite, and Miltank.
- In celebration of the Year of the Ox, Tauros, the Wild Bull Pokémon, will be featured in Timed Research!
- Gifts will contain more Poké Balls, so be sure to send lots of Gifts to your friends.
- You’re more likely to become Lucky Friends with your friends, so be sure to swap Gifts, battle in raids, and trade with them!
- When you trade a Pokémon, it’ll be more likely to become a Lucky Pokémon.
- Trading range will be temporarily increased to 40 km from Monday, February 8, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. to Monday, February 15, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. PST(GMT −8).
Spawns
Red Pokémon appearing in the wild.
Red Pokémon

Krabby
Goldeen
Seaking
Magmar
Magikarp
Gyarados
Miltank
Meditite
Chimchar
Tepig
Darumaka
Fennekin
Eggs
Pokémon representing animals associated with Lunar New Year will be hatching from 5 km Eggs!
In 5 km Eggs

Rattata
Ekans
Mankey
Ponyta
Mareep
Houndour
Miltank
Torchic
Bagon
Buneary
Tepig
Litleo
Raids
Appearing in 1- Star Raids

Meditite
Carvanha
Duskull
Skorupi
Darumaka
Appearing in 3- Star Raids
Octillery
Miltank
Blaziken
Camerupt
Absol
Appearing in 5- Star Raids

Latias
Latios
Appearing in Mega Raids

Mega Pidgeot
Mega Gyarados
Mega Ampharos
Shiny
Shiny Gyarados is already available but is mentioned in the event details as available in encounters. Gyarados will be appearing in the wild, raids and Mega raids.
Gyarados
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