Pokémon Sleep
A running log of what is changing in Pokémon Sleep. Every update, event and announcement, newest first, with the live event schedule and a plain explanation of how the sleep research works.
Latest Updates Live
Every Pokémon Sleep update, event and announcement worth knowing about, newest first. This page is revised as news lands, so the top of this list is always the most recent thing to have happened. Last update: 6 August 2026.
Version 3.7.0
Maintenance ran on 6 August, ahead of Summer Festival 2026. Lucario's main skill became Aura Sphere (Dream Shard Magnet S), which now adds Snorlax Strength on top of the Dream Shards, and Clefable's main skill activation rate went up slightly.
Update contents →Cyan Beach (Expert) dated for 10 August
The second Expert Mode area opens at 4:00 a.m. on 10 August. It needs Master 18 on both Greengrass Isle and Cyan Beach to unlock, and Suicune appears there. Entry costs an Expert Ticket, exchanged for 200 sleep points at the regular exchange or 100 at the premium one.
Expert Mode details →Species-specific Main Skill Seeds
A new kind of Main Skill Seed arrives on 10 August at 7:00 a.m. Each one works on a single species, including its other forms and costumed versions. The first is Main Skill Seed (Hawlucha), given free to anyone who logs in before 9 October.
Official news →New Moon Day #16
The sixteenth New Moon Day runs across the nights around the August new moon. Mythical Pokémon get a special appearance rate, Pokémon are slower to fill up at the first snack time of the day, and any Pokémon on the special appearance rate gains 3 friendship points on encounter without a Poké Biscuit.
Event news →Summer Festival 2026 announced
A week-long event from 10 to 17 August. Hawlucha joins the game on the greater appearance rate, Snorlax's requested dishes are fixed to curries and stews with their final Strength multiplied by 1.5, and Water-, Flying- and Bug-type Pokémon appear more often. Two curry recipes are added and the Candy Cram-o-matic returns for the week.
Event announcement →Third Anniversary Fest
The anniversary event ran for a fortnight, from 13 to 27 July.
Event news →On Right Now
Worked out against your own clock. Pokémon Sleep event windows run on local time, and the in-game day turns over at 4:00 a.m. rather than midnight.
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Summer Festival 2026
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Cyan Beach (Expert) opens
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Main Skill Seed (Hawlucha) giveaway
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New Moon Day #16
Event Schedule
Everything currently on the calendar, in date order. All times are local.
| Event | Type | When | Status |
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Third Anniversary Prelude
Lead-in week to the anniversary event.
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Event | 6 Jul – 13 Jul | Ended |
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Third Anniversary Fest
Two weeks marking three years of Pokémon Sleep.
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Event | 13 Jul – 27 Jul | Ended |
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Good Sleep Day #37
Held across the nights around the full moon.
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Good Sleep Day | 28 Jul – 31 Jul | Ended |
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Hawlucha joins the game. Snorlax asks for curries and stews all week, with final dish Strength multiplied by 1.5. Water-, Flying- and Bug-type Pokémon appear more often.
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Event | 10 Aug, 04:00 – 17 Aug, 03:59 | in 2 days |
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Second Expert Mode area. Needs Master 18 on both Greengrass Isle and Cyan Beach.
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New Area | 10 Aug, 04:00 | in 2 days |
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Main Skill Seed (Hawlucha) giveaway
Free to every researcher who logs in during the window. The first species-specific Main Skill Seed.
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Item | 10 Aug, 07:00 – 9 Oct, 04:59 | in 2 days |
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New Moon Day #16
Mythical Pokémon on a special appearance rate, and Pokémon are slower to fill up at the first snack time of the day.
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New Moon Day | 12 Aug – 16 Aug | in 4 days |
Two events recur every month and are tied to the moon. Good Sleep Day covers the nights around the full moon, and New Moon Day covers the nights around the new moon. Both are announced a week or two ahead on the official site, so a month with no entry above simply has no dates confirmed yet.
Expert Mode
Expert Mode is a harder version of an area with better rewards. Greengrass Isle (Expert) came first; Cyan Beach (Expert) follows on 10 August 2026. Unlocking an Expert area needs a Master 18 rating — Greengrass Isle for the first, and both Greengrass Isle and Cyan Beach for the second.
The difficulty comes from team building. Snorlax has one main favourite Berry each week plus two secondary favourites. Pokémon gathering the main favourite get bonuses such as a shorter helping interval, and Pokémon gathering none of the three are penalised.
Research Areas
Each area has its own roster of Pokémon and its own Snorlax to feed. You pick one to research in and can move between them freely.
| Greengrass Isle | The starting area, and the only one with no restricted Pokémon list. Has an Expert version. |
| Cyan Beach | Coastal area. Expert version opens 10 August 2026. |
| Taupe Hollow | Cave area. |
| Snowdrop Tundra | Snowfield area. |
| Lapis Lakeside | Lakeside area. |
| Old Gold Power Plant | Disused power plant. |
| Amber Canyon | Canyon area. |
How the Sleep Research Works
You leave the phone beside you overnight and the app measures how you sleep. In the morning it converts that into a Sleep Score, and the score plus Snorlax’s Drowsy Power decides how many Pokémon turned up to sleep next to Snorlax while you were asleep. Those are the Sleep Styles you collect into the Sleep Style Dex.
Sleep is sorted into three types — Dozing, Snoozing and Slumbering — and each Pokémon’s Sleep Styles are filed under one of them, so which type you record decides which Pokémon you can find that morning. A session counts towards the score up to 8 hours 30 minutes; sleeping longer than that does not raise it further.
Daytime is the other half of the game. Helper Pokémon on your team gather Berries and ingredients, you cook those into dishes for Snorlax, and the dishes raise its Strength, which raises Drowsy Power, which brings more Pokémon the next night. The research week runs from Monday, and Snorlax’s Strength resets when it does.
About the Game
Pokémon Sleep is a sleep tracking app built as a Pokémon game. It released in July 2023, region by region across that month, and it is the sleep counterpart to Pokémon GO’s step counting rather than a game you sit down to play.
| Released | July 2023, staggered by region; 20 July 2023 in Japan |
| Platforms | iOS and Android |
| Developer | Select Button, with The Pokémon Company and The Pokémon Works |
| Current version | 3.7.0 |
| Accessory | Pokémon GO Plus +, which can track sleep in place of the phone |
The Pokémon GO Plus + is shared with Pokémon GO. It records sleep for this game and spins PokéStops for the other, and it comes with a Pikachu in a nightcap.
For the other mobile game on the same schedule of seasons and events, see the Pokémon GO hub.