Pokopia event Pokemon: what is open now, and what you can still get back
Nine Pokopia event Pokemon are named across seven limited-time events, and most of them are obtainable no other way. Both guides cited below publish the same table of dates. A table cannot tell you the thing that matters on the day you read it, which is whether the event is open, and if it closed, whether the console clock can still reach it.
Last updated . Dates cross checked between game8 and Nintendo Life on that day.
Check which event Pokemon you can get on a date
Defaults to today. Move the date to plan a week ahead, or back to work out what you walked past while you were not playing.
Reading the date from your device.
Pick a date and every event is sorted against it, open ones first.
Befriended one of them already? Tick it off in the Bubbly Basin Pokemon tracker, or work out which habitats to build while you wait for the next window to open.
Missing an event has three different answers
The published lists say events repeat annually and that you can time travel to a past one. Both are true and they stop being true at a specific point, which is where players get caught out.
Before Wish Upon a Jirachi: 4 reachable today
More Spores for Hoppip, Copycat Challenge, Bulbasaur's Jump Rope Contest and Sableye's Gem Hunt all predate the online date check. Set the console clock into the window and the event runs.
Jirachi onwards: wait for next year
Nintendo Life puts the cutoff plainly: this "doesn't work with Wish Upon a Jirachi onwards, as later events require an internet connection to authorise the date first". Jirachi, Zorua and Feebas are on that side of the line. The checker above counts the days for you.
Either way: a miss costs a year, not the Pokemon
game8 states plainly that "events in Pokopia occur every year", and that "if you missed a previous event, you may be able to play it in the future". So the worst case on this page is a wait, which is the number the checker gives you. What neither source says is whether an event Pokemon you already befriended stays once the window shuts, so this page does not claim it does.
Every event and its exclusive Pokemon
Windows are the same every year. Each opens at 5am on the first date and closes at 4:59am the morning after the last one.
| Event | Window | Event Pokemon | Currency | Time travel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More Spores for Hoppip | March 10 to 25 | Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff | Cotton Spores | Reaches it |
| Copycat Challenge | April 1, one day only | None recorded | None | Reaches it |
| Bulbasaur's Jump Rope Contest | April 19 to 26 | Bulbasaur (one source) | None | Reaches it |
| Sableye's Gem Hunt | April 29 to May 13 | Sableye | Red Crystal Fragments | Reaches it |
| Wish Upon a Jirachi | June 23 to July 8 | Jirachi | Sparkling Wish Notes | Blocked |
| Zorua's Hide-and-Sneak Contest | July 19 to 27 | Zorua (one source) | None | Blocked |
| Fetching Scales for Feebas | August 13 to 28 | Feebas, Milotic | Prism Scales | Blocked |
That is 9 event Pokemon in total, counting the two only one source names.
Where the two sources disagree
game8 and Nintendo Life publish the same seven events with the same windows, which is a good sign for the dates. They part company on two exclusives. game8's table gives Bulbasaur for the Jump Rope Contest and Zorua for the Hide-and-Sneak Contest; Nintendo Life names no exclusive for either.
Both readings are plausible. An event named after a Pokemon does not have to hand that Pokemon over, and Bulbasaur is obtainable outside events anyway, so a contest could be a contest and nothing more. Rather than pick a side, the table and the checker mark those two as claimed by one source. If you are planning a year around getting a specific Pokemon, that distinction is the part worth knowing.
How the checker works out its answer
Each event is stored as a month and day pair rather than a full date, because the windows repeat annually. The date you pick is rolled back one day if the time is before 5am, which is what makes an event that opens today count as not yet open at 4am, and an event that closed yesterday count as still open at 4:59am. Comparisons are done in whole UTC days so that a daylight saving change cannot shift an answer by one.
Closed events report the wait until the same window next year rather than a negative number, and the time travel verdict comes from which side of Wish Upon a Jirachi the event falls on. The dataset checks itself against those rules whenever this site is deployed, so a mistyped date fails the build instead of quietly printing a wrong countdown.
Two things it cannot know. Whether an event returns unchanged next year, since only one year of Pokopia has happened so far. And whether an event added after 14 August 2026 exists at all, which is why the date above is the honest limit of this page.
Questions about Pokopia event Pokemon
How many event Pokemon are there in Pokopia?
Nine across the seven events recorded so far, and two of those nine are only claimed by one source. game8 and Nintendo Life agree on Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff, Sableye, Jirachi, Feebas and Milotic. game8 additionally names Bulbasaur for the Jump Rope Contest and Zorua for the Hide-and-Sneak Contest, where Nintendo Life lists no exclusive at all.
Can you still get event Pokemon after the event ends?
It depends which event. For the 4 that predate Wish Upon a Jirachi (More Spores for Hoppip, Copycat Challenge, Bulbasaur's Jump Rope Contest and Sableye's Gem Hunt) you can set the console clock back and play the event again. From Jirachi onwards the game authorises the date over the network first, so the clock trick does nothing and you wait for the event to come round next year. Events repeat annually on the same dates.
What time do Pokopia events start and end?
Events open at 5am and close at 4:59am, so the last day of an event runs until the following morning. That is why a list showing "August 13 to 28" is open for part of the 29th, and why an event you try to enter at 4am on its opening day has not started yet.
Do you need anything before events show up?
game8 lists a fully built Pokemon Center as the requirement for every event on its table. Each event then has its own currency, earned during the event period, which buys the event furniture and habitat that attracts the exclusive Pokemon.
What is the current Pokopia event?
Use the date checker at the top of this page rather than trusting a sentence here. It sorts all seven events against whatever date you give it, defaults to today, and says how many days are left. A written answer on a page like this one is out of date within a fortnight.
Sources
Event dates, currencies and exclusives compiled from game8's events list and Nintendo Life's limited-time events guide, both read on 14 August 2026 and cross checked against each other. The date arithmetic, the time travel verdicts and the countdowns are computed on this site.