Pokemon GO: Weather Week Event Guide (All Research Tasks and Collection Challenges)

Pokemon GO’s Weather Week is an event taking place throughout March 2024, offering a bunch of features for players to enjoy. These features include Event Bonuses, Wild Spawns, Raids, Field Research Tasks, and Collection Challenges.

For many Trainers around the world, Pokemon GO’s Weather Week event will offer an opportunity to expand their collections, gain some XP, and most significantly, potentially secure themselves an encounter with shiny Castform.

Pokemon GO Weather Week Event Summary & Bonuses, Explained

Pokemon GO’s Weather Week event is set to go live on Thursday, March 14, 2024, at 10 AM local time, and run until Monday, March 18, 2024, at 8 PM local time. Throughout this time, there will be several features available to access in-game, including handy event bonuses, Wild Spawns, and Raids that can enable you to collect more Pokemon for your Pokedex, hunt for potential PvP battlers or shiny variants, and participate in limited-time tasks to earn rewards.

Pokemon GO Weather Week – Event Bonuses & Features

• 2x Stardust for catching Pokemon
• Catch Pokemon with Weather Boost to earn extra Stardust
• Increased chance to earn Shiny Castform
• Pokestop Showcases will available during parts of the event

Pokemon GO Weather Week – Wild Spawns

The following Pokemon will spawn much more frequently in the wild throughout the duration of Weather Week, with these Pokemon spawns depending on your local weather conditions.

Sunny Weather

• Cacnea + shiny chance
• Castform (Sunny) + shiny chance

Rainy Weather

• Lotad + shiny chance
• Castform (Rainy) + shiny chance

Snowy Weather

• Castform (Snowy) + shiny chance
• Snover + shiny chance

Partly Cloudy Weather

• Castform + shiny chance
• Roggenrola + shiny chance

Cloudy Weather

Windy Weather

Fog Weather

All Weather

• Paras + shiny chance
• Drifloon + shiny chance
• Helioptile + shiny chance
• Amaura + shiny chance
• Lickitung (rare spawn) + shiny chance

Pokemon GO Weather Week – Raids

1-Star Raid Appearances

• Poliwhirl
• Gastly + shiny chance
• Amaura + shiny chance
• Hippopotas + shiny chance

3-Star Raid Appearances

• Lickitung + shiny chance
• Charizard + shiny chance
• Drampa + shiny chance

5-Star Raid Appearances

Mega Raid Appearances

• Mega Tyranitar + shiny chance

Pokemon GO Weather Week – All Field Research Tasks & Collection Challenges

During Pokemon GO’s weather week, there will be a variety of Field Research Tasks available to complete, earning encounters with certain Pokemon upon completion. In addition to this, there will also be collection challenges available, which will earn you some rewards if achieved.

As of right now, the specific Field Research Task details are yet to be revealed, but the known resulting encounters are as follows:

• ??? = Paras + shiny chance
• ??? = Castform + shiny chance
• ??? = Castform (Sunny) + shiny chance
• ??? = Castform (Rainy) + shiny chance
• ??? = Drifloon + shiny chance
• ??? = Helioptile + shiny chance
• ??? = Amaura + shiny chance
• ??? = Castform (Windy) + shiny chance

Much like Field Research Tasks, Pokemon GO’s Collection Challenges for Winter Week are yet to be confirmed. However, according to the official Pokemon GO website, completing these Collection Challenges will enable you to receive some Stardust and Incense.