What to expect in Animal Crossing in July 2026

Hey everyone, hope you all had a nice June! I’m continuing the Monthly Overview concept I introduced last month, so here is what you can expect in the Animal Crossing world in July 2026.

Some content on this page is adapted from Nookipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Here’s all 5 weekly overview posts for this month! For some of the later ones, I’ve tweaked the process that I use to work on these, making it more efficient to edit them than before. I might go into more details elsewhere, will update this article accordingly if I do.

(not sure what’s happening with the hues here by the way, I’ve switched to a new laptop in between making week 27 and the latter ones)

Highlights of this month include Starcrossed Day in Japanese saves & the Morning Aerobics event in GameCube Animal Crossing titles. Also, if you’re playing GameCube titles, Hometown Day will take place in a random day in July enabling you to get one of 15 train station models.

For this month, Nook Shopping events will be available for Tanabata (July 1st – 7th), Le 14 Juillet (July 10th – 20th), Marine Day (July 11th – 20th) & Cowboy Festival (July 15th – August 15th).

Again, like last time, I will be only focusing on New Horizons for this list. Sorry! Unlike last time, I am showing all the arrivals and departures though!

• Grasshopper, brown cicada, robust cicada, giant cicada, evening cicada, cicada shell, blue weevil beetle, earth-boring dung beetle, scarab beetle, saw stag, miyama stag, giant stag, cyclommatus stag, golden stag, giraffe stag, horned dynastid, horned atlas, horned elephant, horned hercules, walking stick & walking leaf arrives in Northern Hemisphere islands
• Honeybee leaves after this month in Northern Hemisphere islands

• Sweetfish, napoleonfish, puffer fish, blue marlin & ocean sunfish arrives in Northern Hemisphere islands
• Tadpole leaves after this month in Northern Hemisphere islands

• Moon jellyfish, giant isopod & horseshoe crab arrives in Northern Hemisphere islands
• Seaweed leaves after this month in Northern Hemisphere islands
• Abalone & lobster leaves after this month in Southern Hemisphere islands

As a quick last note: Baskin-Robbins are doing a collaboration with Animal Crossing in Japan starting from this month, see more information here.

Well that’s it for now. If I missed anything, please let me know what I missed & I can add it here. Additionally, make sure to comment on what you’re planning to do this month in your towns/islands, I would love to see your progress!