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Pokémon Go: All Spotlight Hours in December 2024

Don’t miss out on these weekly bonuses

Marco Wutz

Niantic

It's time for another fresh wave of monthly content in Pokémon Go – and you know exactly what that means: A brand-new series of weekly Spotlight Hours is beckoning, luring you into the game with some welcome bonuses in December 2024.

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  1. Pokémon Go: Spotlight Hours in December 2024
  2. Pokémon Go: Spotlight Hours explained

Here are all Pokémon Go Spotlight Hours in December 2024.

Pokémon Go: Spotlight Hours in December 2024

  • December 3: Sableye – 2x Catch Stardust
  • December 10: Murkrow – 2x Catch XP
  • December 17: Slugma and Bergmite – 2x Catch Candy
  • December 24: Delibird (Holiday Ribbon) – 2x Transfer Candy
  • December 31: Togetic – 2x Evolution XP

Pokémon Go: Spotlight Hours explained

Spotlight Hours in the mobile game take place each Thursday from 6 to 7pm local time, greatly boosting a single Pokémon's spawn rate during this window of time. This improves your chance of encountering a Shiny variant of the monster (though the Shiny spawn rate itself remains unchanged), if that is already available in the game, as well as catching and evolving a particularly strong specimen for your team in Go Battle League. For trainers aiming to triumph in PokéStop Contests, this is a good opportunity to discover specimens with special size and weight properties as well.

Spotlight Hours are a great way to catch and evolve a specific Pokémon to fill out your Pokédex or beef up your battle team for raids and Go Battle League. They are also a fantastic opportunity to get rid of a surplus of monsters from an event or reap saved up rewards from Field Research tasks thanks to their various bonuses. 

Each Spotlight Hour also has a bonus in tow which might prove useful to you even if the star of the show during an event isn’t relevant for your needs: Need to evolve ten Pokémon for a task? Wait until a Spotlight Hour arrives that doubles Evolution XP, activate a Lucky Egg, and then fulfill your mission while enjoying the extra resources gained this way.

If you’re not playing Pokémon Go regularly, these weekly events allow you to use your game time in a very efficient manner. You should also check the calendar for all upcoming 5-Star Raids in the game.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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