Niantic have announced the Pokémon GO details for the next month. First, from December 16th, different Pokémon will start appearing in eggs.

Next, Virizion enters Raid Battles on December 17th until January 7th

A special Lugia & Ho-Oh Raid Weekend will run from December 20th through December 23rd

A Holidays 2019 event will run from December 24th 00:00 local time zone to January 1st 23:59 local time zone. This features Pichu, Pikachu & Raichu wearing Beanies and Stantler wearing bells. Cubchoo and various Ice-type Pokémon will spawn more, Cryogonal will appear only in Glacial Lures. Shiny Stantler and Shiny Snover will also appear.

New Shadow Pokémon will also appear during the event including Delibird. There’s also special winter themed avatar items, event field research. 7km Eggs will feature Alolan Sandshrew, Alolan Vulpix, Pikachu in a beanie and Stantler with Bells. Raid Battles will include Raichu wearing a beanie and Stantler wearing Bells in 2 star eggs

Special bonuses will also run during this event. You can open 40 gifts a day and carry 20 gifts at a time and you’ll get one guaranteed single use Incubator a day from a Poké Stop.

There are also special bonuses

December 24th/25th – 2* Capture Candy & 2* Transfer Candy

December 26th/27th – 2* Catch Stardust

December 28th/29th – 2* Catch Experience

December 30th/31st & January 1st – 50% Egg Distance

Finally, on Saturday December 28th from 11am to 7pm local time, a special winter weekend event will run:

This event features 2 hour Glacial Lure Modules, Glaceon with Last Resort, Regice being in Raid Battles and 2 further free raid passes