Field Research/Event-exclusive tasks

The following is a list of all Field Research tasks and possible rewards available temporarily and exclusively during special in-game events.

Global events

Community Day

During the three hour time window on each Community Day, all PokéStops will have tasks requiring players to catch the featured Pokémon.

Task	Availability	Potential rewards
Catch 3 Mareep	April 15, 2018		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Charmander	May 19, 2018		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Larvitar	June 16, 2018		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 5 Squirtle	July 8, 2018
Catch 3 Eevee	August 11 - 12, 2018		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Chikorita	September 22, 2018		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Beldum	October 21, 2018* October 28, 2018*		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Totodile	February 16, 2019* February 17, 2019*		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Swinub	February 16, 2019* February 17, 2019*		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Treecko	March 23, 2019		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Bagon	April 13, 2019		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Torchic	May 19, 2019		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Slakoth	June 8, 2019		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Mudkip	July 21, 2019		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Ralts	August 3, 2019		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Turtwig	September 15, 2019		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2
Catch 3 Trapinch	October 12, 2019*		×500 ×5 ×2 ×2 ×1

Limited Research

Limited Research events focused on players completing Field Research tasks that all awarded the same featured Pokémon, with significantly boosted Shiny rates. These tasks were available on the following dates:

• Feebas Research: January 19, 2019*; January 20, 2019*
• Clamperl Research: February 23, 2019*; February 24, 2019*
• Lotad Research: March 30, 2019

Feebas Research

Task	Potential rewards
Make 15 Nice Throws
Feebas Research: Make 10 Great Throws
Feebas Research: Hatch 1 Egg
Feebas Research: Earn 1 Buddy Candy

Clamperl Research

Task	Potential rewards
Clamperl Research: Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon
Clamperl Research: Catch a Psyduck or Krabby
Clamperl Research: Catch a Magikarp or Wailmer
Clamperl Research: Make 5 Curveball Throws
Clamperl Research: Make 5 Nice Throws
Clamperl Research: Make 3 Nice Throws in a row
Clamperl Research: Make 3 Great Throws
Clamperl Research: Make 2 Great Throws in a row
Clamperl Research: Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon
Clamperl Research: Battle in a Gym
Clamperl Research: Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle
Clamperl Research: Battle in a raid
Clamperl Research: Evolve 2 Water-type Pokémon
Clamperl Research: Spin 2 PokéStops

Lotad Research

Task	Potential rewards
Lotad Research: Catch 3 Pokémon with Weather Boost
Lotad Research: Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost
Lotad Research: Catch a Castform
Lotad Research: Make 5 Curveball Throws
Lotad Research: Make 5 Nice Throws
Lotad Research: Make 3 Nice Throws in a row
Lotad Research: Make 3 Great Throws
Lotad Research: Make 2 Great Throws in a row
Lotad Research: Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon
Lotad Research: Battle in a Gym
Lotad Research: Use a supereffective Charged Attack in a Gym battle
Lotad Research: Battle in a raid
Lotad Research: Spin 2 PokéStops

Adventure Week 2018

These Field Research tasks were available from May 24 to June 5, 2018.

Task	Potential rewards
Adventure Week: Hatch 2 Eggs	×1
Adventure Week: Hatch 3 Eggs
Adventure Week: Evolve an Omanyte or Kabuto
Adventure Week: Earn 3 Buddy Candies
Adventure Week: Spin 2 PokéStops you haven't visited before

Water Festival 2018

These tasks were available from June 7 to 21, 2018.

Task	Potential rewards
Water Festival: Catch 2 Water-type Pokémon
Water Festival: Catch 5 Magikarp or Wailmer
Water Festival: Use 3 Berries to help catch Pokémon
Water Festival: Battle in a Gym 3 times
Water Festival: Win a raid	×1
Water Festival: Hatch an Egg
Water Festival: Evolve 2 Shellder

Johto Festival

These tasks were available from August 20 to 28, 2018.

Task	Potential rewards
Johto Festival: Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon
Johto Festival: Catch 3 Sunkern	×1 ×1 ×1 ×1 ×1
Johto Festival: Make 4 Great Curveball Throws in a row
Johto Festival: Make 3 Excellent Throws
Johto Festival: Win a raid
Johto Festival: Evolve 3 Sunkern or Natu

Psychic Spectacular 2018

These tasks were available from October 5 to 14, 2018.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Psychic-type Pokémon	×1000
Catch 5 Abra or Drowzee
Evolve 3 Slowpoke or Exeggcute

Halloween 2018

These tasks were available from October 23 to November 1, 2018.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Ghost-type Pokémon
Catch 5 Dark-type Pokémon	×500
Catch 5 Poochyena or Houndour
Evolve 3 Duskull or Shuppet	×1
Transfer 10 Pokémon

Let's Go Celebration

These tasks were available from November 16 to 27, 2018.

Task	Potential rewards
Let's Go: Make an Excellent Throw
Let's Go: Hatch 2 Eggs
Let's Go: Evolve 2 Anorith

Hoenn Celebration

These tasks were available from January 15 to 29, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Hoenn Celebration: Catch 10 Zigzagoon or Taillow	×1000
Hoenn Celebration: Hatch 2 Eggs
Hoenn Celebration: Evolve 3 Wurmple*

Lunar New Year 2019

This task was available from February 4 to 13, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Trade 10 Pokémon with a friend

Valentine's Day 2019

These tasks were available from February 13 to 21, 2019. Although the task rewarding Spinda is not exclusive to this event, it will reward an event-exclusive, heart-shaped pattern if the reward is claimed within the event period.

Task	Potential rewards
Valentine's Day: Catch a Chansey	×3
Valentine's Day: Catch 20 Luvdisc
Make 5 Great Curveball Throws in a row

Pokémon Day 2019

These tasks were available from February 26 to 28, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Pokémon Day: Catch 5 Pidgey or Rattata
Pokémon Day: Evolve 1 Meowth

Battle Showdown 2019

These tasks were available from March 5 to 12, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 5 Fighting-type Pokémon
Catch 3 Makuhita or Meditite
Make 2 Excellent Throws in a row
Use a supereffective Charged Attack in 7 raids or Gym battles	×1
Win 3 raids	×1

Equinox 2019

These tasks were available from March 19 to March 26, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Grass-type Pokémon	×1000
Catch 3 Bulbasaur or Chikorita
Evolve 2 Grass-type Pokémon
Evolve 5 Grass-type Pokémon

Bug Out 2019

These tasks were available from April 2 to 9, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Bug-type Pokémon
Catch 15 Bug-type Pokémon	×1500
Catch 2 Wurmple
Catch 5 Ledyba or Spinarak
Evolve 3 Bug-type Pokémon

Eggstravaganza 2019

These tasks were available from April 16 to 23, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Eggstravaganza: Hatch an Egg
Eggstravaganza: Hatch 3 Eggs
Eggstravaganza: Hatch 5 Eggs

Detective Pikachu

These tasks were available from May 7 to 17, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Detective Pikachu: Catch the Seed Pokémon that is seen walking in the river
Detective Pikachu: Catch the Water-type Pokémon carried in a backpack
Detective Pikachu: Catch the Fire-type evolution of Eevee*
Detective Pikachu: Catch 10 Jigglypuff, Aipom, or Snubbull

Extraordinary Raid Week

These tasks were available from May 21 to 28, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Win a raid
Win 3 raids
Win 5 raids	×1

Adventure Week 2019

These tasks were available from June 4 to 11, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Adventure Week 2019: Catch 5 Aron	×1
Adventure Week 2019: Catch 5 Omanyte or Kabuto
Adventure Week 2019: Hatch 2 Eggs	×1
Adventure Week 2019: Evolve a Lileep or Anorith
Adventure Week 2019: Spin 25 PokéStops
Adventure Week 2019: Spin 2 PokéStops you haven't visited before
Adventure Week 2019: Earn 3 Candies walking with your buddy

GO Fest 2019

In celebration of GO Fest 2019, these Field Research tasks rewarding featured Pokémon were available worldwide within the duration of the real-world events.

Dortmund, Germany

Task	Potential rewards
GO Fest Global: Make 2 Great Curveball Throws in a row
GO Fest Global: Win 3 Gym battles
GO Fest Global: Win a raid
GO Fest Global: Hatch an Egg
GO Fest Global: Evolve 3 Pokémon

Yokohama, Japan

Task	Potential rewards
GO Fest Global: Make 2 Great Curveball Throws in a row
GO Fest Global: Win 3 Gym battles
GO Fest Global: Win a raid
GO Fest Global: Hatch an Egg
GO Fest Global: Evolve 3 Pokémon

Water Festival 2019

These tasks were available from August 23 to 30, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Water Festival: Catch 5 Water-type Pokémon
Water Festival: Catch 10 Water-type Pokémon	×1000
Water Festival: Evolve 3 Carvanha or Barboach
Water Festival: Hatch 5 Eggs
Water Festival: Win 2 raids
Water Festival: Defeat a Team GO Rocket Grunt
Water Festival: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy
Water Festival: Take 5 snapshots of Water-type Pokémon

World Tourism Day 2019

These tasks were available from September 26 to October 1, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
World Tourism Day: Make a new friend
World Tourism Day: Send 25 Gifts to friends
World Tourism Day: Trade Pokémon caught 10,000 km apart (Western hemisphere)
World Tourism Day: Trade Pokémon caught 10,000 km apart (Eastern hemisphere)

Halloween 2019

These tasks were available from October 17 to November 1, 2019.

Task	Potential rewards
Halloween: Catch 10 Ghost-type Pokémon	×1000
Halloween: Catch 5 Gastly or Shuppet
Halloween: Make 3 Excellent Throws in a row
Halloween: Defeat a Team GO Rocket Grunt
Halloween: Evolve 3 Drifloon or Stunky	×1
Halloween: Take 5 snapshots of Ghost-type Pokémon

Local events

GO Fest

These Field Research tasks were available exclusively to attendees of GO Fest.

2018

Task	Potential rewards
GO Fest: Catch 10 Pokémon	×1
GO Fest: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy
GO Fest: Hatch an Egg
GO Fest: Visit 10 PokéStops

2019

Task	Potential rewards
GO Fest: Catch 10 Pokémon	×3
GO Fest: Catch 5 Pokémon with Weather Boost
GO Fest: Battle another Trainer
GO Fest: Hatch an Egg
GO Fest: Send 3 Gifts to friends

Safari Zone

These Field Research tasks were available exclusively at Pokémon GO Safari Zone.

Sentosa, Singapore

Task	Potential rewards
Safari Zone: Catch 15 Pokémon	×1
Safari Zone: Use 5 Nanab Berries to help catch Pokémon
Safari Zone: Use 5 Pinap Berries to help catch Pokémon
Safari Zone: Hatch an Egg
Safari Zone: Hatch 5 Eggs
Safari Zone: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy	×1
Safari Zone: Earn 3 Candies walking with your buddy	×1
Safari Zone: Earn 5 Candies walking with your buddy
Safari Zone: Send 2 Gifts to friends
Safari Zone: Send 10 Gifts to friends

Montreal, Canada

Task	Potential rewards
Safari Zone: Catch 10 Pokémon
Safari Zone: Catch 15 Pokémon	×1
Safari Zone: Use 5 Berries to help catch Pokémon	×1000
Safari Zone: Use 5 Nanab Berries while catching Pokémon
Safari Zone: Use 5 Pinap Berries while catching Pokémon
Safari Zone: Hatch an Egg
Safari Zone: Hatch 5 Eggs
Safari Zone: Spin 10 PokéStops
Safari Zone: Earn a Candy walking with your buddy	×1
Safari Zone: Earn 3 Candies walking with your buddy	×1
Safari Zone: Earn 5 Candies walking with your buddy
Safari Zone: Send 2 Gifts to friends
Safari Zone: Send 10 Gifts to friends	×1

New Taipei City, Taiwan

Task	Potential rewards
Safari Zone: Catch 10 Pokémon
Safari Zone: Use 10 Berries to help catch Pokémon	×1000
Safari Zone: Hatch an Egg	?

Pokémon World Championships

2018

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Pokémon

2019

Task	Potential rewards
Catch 10 Pokémon
Send 2 Gifts to friends

GDC

2019

Task	Potential rewards
GDC 2019: Catch 25 Pokémon	×3

Ticketed events

A Colossal Discovery

Task	Potential rewards
A Colossal Discovery: Win a raid
A Colossal Discovery: Win a Trainer Battle against another Trainer
A Colossal Discovery: Trade a Pokémon with a friend
A Colossal Discovery: Make a new friend