16 December 2025

All ACNH January Fish and Bugs

By newsgame

Catching every fish and bug in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a satisfying task to accomplish, but it can take a long time. This is because the game calendar follows the one in real life, and the bugs and fish available on your island change every month.

While players can speed up their collection time by visiting islands in a different hemisphere, or by using the ACNH “time travel” trick to skip ahead, there’s no way to tell in-game what critters are available per month unless you’ve already caught one. So to help you keep track, here’s all the January fish and bugs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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All January Fish in Animal Crossing New Horizons

The fish available to catch during January in Animal Crossing: New Horizons differs depending on whether your island is in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. So we’ve made two different tables below to show the two lineups:

All Northern Hemisphere January Fish in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Name	Location	Time	Price
Anchovy	Sea	4am – 9pm	200
Barreleye	Sea	9pm – 4am	15,000
Bitterling	River	All day	900
Black Bass	River	All day	400
Blowfish	Sea	9pm – 4am	5,000
Blue Marlin	Pier	All day	10,000
Bluegill	River	9am – 4pm	180
Carp	Pond	All day	300
Crucian Carp	River	All day	160
Dab	Sea	All day	300
Dace	River	4pm – 9am	240
Football Fish	Sea	4pm – 9am	2,500
Freshwater Goby	River	4pm-9am	400
Goldfish	Pond	All day	1,300
Horse Mackerel	Sea	All day	150
Koi	Pond	4pm – 9am	4,000
Oarfish	Sea	All day	9,000
Olive Flounder	Sea	All day	800
Pale Chub	River	9am – 4pm	200
Pond Smelt	River	All day	500
Pop-eyed Goldfish	Pond	9am – 4pm	1,300
Ranchu Goldfish	Pond	9am – 4pm	4,500
Red Snapper	Sea	All day	3,000
Sea Bass	Sea	All day	400
Sea Butterfly	Sea	All day	1,000
Squid	Sea	All day	500
Stringfish	Clifftop river	4pm – 9am	15,000
Sturgeon	River mouth	All day	10,000
Tuna	Pier	All day	7,000
Yellow Perch	River	All day	300

No fish are new in January on Northern Hemisphere islands. This makes the Stringfish and Barreleyes in ACNH the most expensive catches again this month, with a 15,000 bell sell price. Sturgeons and Blue Marlins come in a close second, as they’re both worth 10,000 bells. Don’t worry if you don’t catch all of January’s fish either, as there are no fish leaving after January.

All Southern Hemisphere January Fish in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Name	Location	Time	Bells
Anchovy	Sea	4am – 9pm	200
Angelfish	River	4pm – 9am	3,000
Arapaima	River	4pm – 9am	10,000
Arowana	River	4pm – 9am	10,000
Barred Knifejaw	Sea	All day	5,000
Barreleye	Sea	9pm – 4am	15,000
Betta	River	9am – 4pm	2,500
Black Bass	River	All day	400
Blue Marlin	Pier	All day	10,000
Bluegill	River	9am – 4pm	180
Butterfly Fish	Sea	All day	1,000
Carp	Pond	All day	300
Catfish	Pond	4pm – 9am	800
Clown Fish	Sea	All day	650
Coelacanth	Sea (Raining)	All day	15,000
Crawfish	Pond	All day	200
Crucian Carp	River	All day	160
Dace	River	4pm – 9am	240
Dorado	River	4am – 9pm	15,000
Freshwater Goby	River	4pm-9am	400
Frog	Pond	All day	120
Gar	Pond	4pm – 9am	6,000
Giant Snakehead	Pond	9am – 4pm	5,500
Giant Trevally	Pier	All day	4,500
Goldfish	Pond	All day	1,300
Great White Shark	Sea	4pm – 9am	15,000
Guppy	River	9am – 4pm	1,300
Hammerhead Shark	Sea	4pm – 9am	8,000
Horse Mackerel	Sea	All day	150
Killifish	Pond	All day	300
Koi	Pond	4pm – 9am	4,000
Mahi-mahi	Pier	All day	6,000
Napoleonfish	Sea	4am – 9pm	10,000
Neon Tetra	River	9am – 4pm	500
Nibble Fish	River	9am – 4pm	1,500
Ocean Sunfish	Sea	4am – 9pm	4,000
Olive Flounder	Sea	All day	800
Pale Chub	River	9am – 4pm	200
Piranha	River	9am – 4pm and 9pm -4am	2,500
Pop-eyed Goldfish	Pond	9am – 4pm	1,300
Puffer Fish	Sea	All day	250
Rainbowfish	River	9am – 4pm	800
Ranchu Goldfish	Pond	9am – 4pm	4,500
Red Snapper	Sea	All day	3,000
Ribbon Eel	Sea	All day	600
Saddled Bichir	River	9pm – 4am	4,000
Saw Shark	Sea	4pm – 9am	12,000
Sea Bass	Sea	All day	400
Sea Horse	Sea	All day	1,100
Snapping Turtle	River	9pm – 4am	5,000
Squid	Sea	All day	500
Suckerfish	Sea	All day	1,500
Surgeonfish	Sea	All day	1,000
Sweetfish	River	All day	900
Tadpole	Pond	All day	100
Tilapia	River	All day	800
Whale Shark	Sea	All day	13,000
Zebra Turkeyfish	Sea	All day	500

New January fish in Southern Hemisphere

Name	Location	Time	Bells
Blue Marlin	Pier	All day	10,000
Napoleonfish	Sea	4am – 9pm	10,000
Ocean Sunfish	Sea	4am – 9pm	4,000
Puffer Fish	Sea	All day	250
Sweetfish	River	All day	900

The Tadpole is the only fish that leaves after January. So you might want to catch it now before February comes round, if you haven’t already.

All January Bugs in Animal Crossing New Horizons

The bugs available to catch during January in Animal Crossing: New Horizons differ depending on whether your island is in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, just like with fish. So we’ve also made two different tables here to show the two lineups.

All Northern Hemisphere January Bugs in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Name	Location	Time	Bells
Common Butterfly	Flying	4am – 7pm	160
Paper Kite Butterfly	Flying	8am – 7pm	1,000
Emperor Butterfly	Flying	5pm – 8am	4,000
Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing	Flying	8am – 5pm	2,500
Moth	Flying near lights	7pm – 4am	130
Wasp	Shaking trees	All day	2,500
Damselfly	Flying	All day	500
Mole Cricket	Underground	All day	500
Citrus Long-horned Beetle	Tree stumps	All day	350
Dung Beetle	Rolling snowballs on the ground	All day	3,000
Bagworm	Shaking trees	All day	600
Ant	Rotten food	All day	80
Hermit Crab	Moving shells	7pm – 8am	1,000
Wharf Roach	Beach rocks	All day	200
Fly	Trash	All day	60
Snail	Rocks and bushes (Raining)	All day	250
Pill Bug	Hitting rocks	11pm – 4pm	250
Centipede	Hitting rocks	4pm – 11pm	300
Spider	Shaking trees	7pm – 8am	480
Tarantula	Ground	7pm – 4am	8,000

No bugs are new in January on Northern Hemisphere islands, so the Tarantula in ACNH is still the most expensive one you can catch this month. Also, just like the fish, there are no bugs leaving after January.

All Southern Hemisphere January Bugs in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Name	Location	Time	Bells
Agrias Butterfly	Flying	8am – 5pm	3,000
Ant	Rotten food	All day	80
Atlas Moth	Trees	7pm – 4am	3,000
Bagworm	Shaking trees	All day	600
Banded Dragonfly	Flying	8am – 5pm	4,500
Blue Weevil Beetle	On palm trees	All day	800
Brown Cicada	Trees	8am – 5pm	250
Cicada Shell	Trees	All day	10
Citrus Long-horned Beetle	Tree stumps	All day	350
Common Bluebottle	Flying	4am – 7pm	300
Cyclommatus Stag	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	8,000
Darner Dragonfly	Flying	8am – 5pm	230
Diving Beetle	On freshwater	8am – 7pm	800
Drone Beetle	Trees	All day	200
Earth-boring Dung Beetle	Ground	All day	300
Emperor Butterfly	Flying	5pm – 8am	4,000
Evening Cicada	Trees	4am – 8am 4pm – 7pm	550
Flea	On villagers	All day	70
Fly	Trash	All day	60
Giant Cicada	Trees	8am – 5pm	500
Giant Stag	Trees	11pm – 8am	12,000
Giant Water Bug	On freshwater	7pm – 8am	2,000
Giraffe Stag	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	12,000
Golden Stag	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	12,000
Goliath Beetle	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	8,000
Grasshopper	Ground	8am – 5pm	160
Great Purple Emperor	Flying	4am – 7pm	3,000
Hermit Crab	Disguised as item leaves	7pm – 8am	1,000
Honeybee	Flying	8am – 5pm	200
Horned Atlas	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	8,000
Horned Dynastid	Trees	5pm – 8am	1,350
Horned Elephant	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	8,000
Horned Hercules	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	12,000
Jewel Beetle	Tree stumps	All day	2,400
Long Locust	Ground	8am – 7pm	200
Madagascan Sunset Moth	Flying	8am – 4pm	2,500
Man-faced Stink Bug	Flowers	7pm – 8am	1,000
Mantis	Flowers	8am – 5pm	430
Miyama Stag	Trees	All day	1,000
Mosquito	Flying	5pm – 4am	130
Moth	Flying near lights	7pm – 4am	130
Orchid Mantis	White flowers	8am – 5pm	2,400
Paper Kite Butterfly	Flying	8am – 7pm	1,000
Pondskater	On freshwater	8am – 7pm	130
Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing	Flying	8am – 4pm	4,000
Rainbow Stag	Trees	7pm – 8am	6,000
Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing	Flying	8am – 5pm	2,500
Robust Cicada	Trees	8am – 5pm	300
Rosalia Batesi Beetle	Tree stumps	All day	3,000
Saw Stag	Trees	All day	2,000
Scarab Beetle	Trees	11pm – 8am	10,000
Scorpion	Ground	7pm – 4am	8,000
Snail	Rocks and bushes (Raining)	All day	250
Spider	Shaking trees	7pm – 8am	480
Stinkbug	Flowers	All day	120
Tiger Beetle	Ground	All day	1,500
Tiger Butterfly	Flying	4am – 7pm	240
Walking Leaf	Disguised as item leaves	All day	600
Walking Stick	Trees	4am – 8am and 5pm – 7pm	600
Wasp	Shaking trees	All day	2,500
Wharf Roach	Beach rocks	All day	200

New January Bugs in the Southern Hemisphere

Name	Location	Time	Price
Blue Weevil Beetle	On palm trees	All day	800
Brown Cicada	Trees	8am – 5pm	250
Cicada Shell	Trees	All day	10
Cyclommatus Stag	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	8,000
Earth-boring Dung Beetle	Ground	All day	300
Evening Cicada	Trees	4am – 8am 4pm – 7pm	550
Giant Cicada	Trees	8am – 5pm	500
Giant Stag	Trees	11pm – 8am	12,000
Giraffe Stag	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	12,000
Golden Stag	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	12,000
Grasshopper	Ground	8am – 5pm	160
Horned Atlas	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	8,000
Horned Dynastid	Trees	5pm – 8am	1,350
Horned Elephant	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	8,000
Horned Hercules	On palm trees	5pm – 8am	12,000
Miyama Stag	Trees	All day	1,000
Robust Cicada	Trees	8am – 5pm	300
Saw Stag	Trees	All day	2,000
Scarab Beetle	Trees	11pm – 8am	10,000
Walking Leaf	Disguised as item leaves	All day	600
Walking Stick	Trees	4am – 8am and 5pm – 7pm	600

The Honeybee is the only bug leaving after January. So if you haven’t added it to your collection yet, it’s best to do so before February if you want to catch ’em all. And if you also want to get every type of fruit, our guide on how to get new fruit in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can help.