May

May is the fifth month of the year.

Events In May

• Spring Cleaning in Animal Crossing (GCN)
  • Occurs on the 1st May.
  • Talk to Tortimer to receive a Dump Model.

    

• Mother's Day in Animal Crossing, City Folk, & New Leaf
  • Occurs on the second Sunday in May.
  • Talk to Tortimer to receive a Lovely Phone.
• Flea Market in Wild World & City Folk.
  • This event occurs on the last Sunday of the month.
  • Check main article for more information.
• La-Di-Day in Wild World.
  • This event occurs on the second Saturday of the month, and runs all day. Villagers participate in a competition for the new Town Tune.
  • Check main article for more information.

• Fishing Tourney in Wild World, City Folk, & New Leaf​.
  • In Wild World this event occurs on the third Sunday of the month.
  • In City Folk this event occurs on the third Saturday of the month and enables the player to catch some special fish that day. (This is the last day of the event series.)
  • Check main article for more information.
• Yay Day in Wild World.
  • This event occurs on the fourth Sunday of the month.
  • Check main article for more information.
• International Museum Day in New Horizons
  • This event occurs on May 18 and ends May 31st.
  • Check main article for more information.
• May Day in New Horizons
  • This event takes place on the first week of May.
  • Nook will distribute special May Day tickets which can be redeemed any day until May 7th, which are good for an event mystery tour.

Birthdays

Villagers born during this month fall under either the ♉ or ♊ signs.

Available collectables

Note: Several prices for critters were not updated for New Horizons.

Fish
Name	Location	Sale price	Time of day	Games
				AF	AF+	AC	AFe+	WW	CF	NL	NH
Anchovy	Ocean	200	4am - 9pm								✓
Angelfish	River	1,000	4pm - 9am	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Barbel Steed	River	200	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Barred Knifejaw	Ocean	5,000	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Barreleye	Ocean	15,000	9pm - 4am								✓
Bass	River	300	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓
Betta	River	2,500	9am - 4pm								✓
Black Bass	River	300	All day					✓	✓	✓	✓
Bluegill	River	300	9am - 4pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Brook Trout	Pool	150	All day			✓	✓
Butterfly fish	Ocean	1,000	All day						✓	✓	✓
Carp	River	300	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Catfish	Pool	800	4pm - 9am	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Char	Waterfall	3,800	4pm - 9am					✓	✓	✓	✓
Cherry Salmon	River	1,000	4pm - 9am,	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Clownfish	Ocean	650	All day					✓	✓	✓	✓
Coelacanth	Ocean (rain)	15,000	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Crawfish	Pond	250	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Crucian Carp	River	120	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Dace	River	200	4pm - 9am	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Freshwater Goby	River	300	4pm - 9am	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Frog	Pond	120	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Giant Trevally	Pier	4,500	All day							✓	✓
Golden trout	Waterfall	15,000	4pm - 9am								✓
Goldfish	River	1,300	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Guppy	River	1,300	9am - 4pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Herabuna	River	300	All day	✓	✓
Horse Mackerel	Ocean	150	All day				✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Killifish	Pond	300	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Koi	River	4,000	4pm - 9am	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Large Bass	River	3,000	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓
Loach	River	300	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Mahi-mahi	Pier	6,000	All day								✓
Neon Tetra	River	500	9am - 4pm						✓	✓	✓
Nibble Fish	River	1,200	9am - 4pm							✓	✓
Oarfish	Ocean	9,000	All day							✓	✓
Octopus	Ocean	500	All day				✓	✓	✓
Olive Flounder	Ocean	800	All day				✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Pale Chub	River	160	9am - 4pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Popeyed Goldfish	River	1,300	9am - 4pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Rainbow Trout	River	800	4am - 9am, 4pm - 9pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Rainbowfish	River	800	9am - 4pm								✓
Ranchu Goldfish	Pond	4,500	9am - 4pm								✓
Red Snapper	Ocean	3,000	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ribbon Eel	Ocean	600	All day							✓	✓
Sea Bass	Ocean	200	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Seahorse	Ocean	1,100	All day				✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Small Bass	River	200	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓
Snapping Turtle	River	5,000	9pm - 4am								✓
Squid	Ocean	400	All day				✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Surgeonfish	Ocean	1,000	All day						✓	✓	✓
Tadpole	Pond	100	All day							✓	✓
Whale Shark	Ocean	13,000	All day							✓	✓
Zebra Turkeyfish	Ocean	400	All day					✓	✓	✓	✓
Bugs
Name	Location	Sale price	Time of day	Games
				AF	AF+	AC	AFe+	WW	CF	NL	NH
Agrias Butterfly	Near flowers	3,000	8am - 5pm					✓	✓	✓	✓
Ant	On rotten turnips, rotten fruit and candy	80	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Atlas moth	On trees	3,000	7pm - 4am								✓
Bagworm	Shake trees	300	All day		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Banded Dragonfly	Flying	4,500	8am - 5pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Bee	Shake trees	2,000	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Birdwing Butterfly	Near flowers	4,000	8am - 4pm					✓	✓	✓	✓
Centipede	Under rocks	300	4pm - 11pm						✓	✓	✓
Citrus Long-horned Beetle	On tree stumps	350	All day								✓
Cockroach	On trees, turnips and flowers.(GCN, WW)	5	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Common Bluebottle	Near flowers	300	4am - 7pm								✓
Common Butterfly	Near flowers	90	4am - 7pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Common Dragonfly	Flying	130	8am - 5pm	✓	✓	✓	✓
Crab	On the beach	150	All day				✓
Darner Dragonfly	Flying	200	8am - 5pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Diving Beetle	In the river	800	8am - 5pm				✓		✓	✓	✓
Flea	On villagers	70	All day				✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Fly	Near garbage	60	All day					✓	✓	✓	✓
Giant water bug	In the river	2,000	7pm - 8am								✓
Hermit Crab	disguised as seashells	1,000	7pm - 8am				✓			✓	✓
Honeybee	Near flowers	100	8am - 5pm					✓	✓	✓	✓
Jewel Beetle	On tree stumps	2,400	All day	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ladybug	On flowers	130	8am - 5pm	✓	✓	✓	✓
Long Locust	On the ground	200	8am - 7pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Madagascan sunset moth	Near flowers	2,500	8am - 4pm								✓
Man-faced stink bug	On flowers	1,000	7pm - 8am								✓
Mantis	On flowers	430	8am - 5pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Mole Cricket	Under the ground	280	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Moth	Near lights	60	7pm - 4am					✓	✓	✓	✓
Orchid Mantis	On white flowers	2,400	8am - 5pm					✓	✓	✓	✓
Paper kite butterfly	Near flowers	1,000	8am - 7pm								✓
Peacock Butterfly	On purple, black and blue flowers	220	4am - 7pm					✓	✓	✓	✓
Pill Bug	Under rocks	250	11pm - 4pm		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Pondskater	On ponds	130	8am - 7pm		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Purple Butterfly	Near flowers	2,000	4am - 7pm	✓	✓	✓	✓				✓
Raja Brooke Butterfly	Near flowers	2,500	8am - 5pm						✓	✓	✓
Rosalia batesi beetle	On tree stumps	3,000	All day								✓
Scorpion	On the ground	8,000	7pm - 4am					✓	✓	✓	✓
Snail	On flowers (rain)	250	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Spider	Shake trees	300	All day		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Spotted Ladybug	On flowers	200	8am - 5pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Stinkbug	On trees	120	All day							✓	✓
Tiger Beetle	On the ground	1,500	All day							✓	✓
Tiger Butterfly	Near red flowers	160	4am - 7pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Violin Beetle	On tree stumps	250	All day						✓	✓	✓
Wharf Roach	On the beach	200	All day							✓	✓
Yellow Butterfly	Flying	80	4am - 7pm	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Deep-sea creatures
Name	Location	Sale price	Time of day	Games
				AF	AF+	AC	AFe+	WW	CF	NL	NH
Acorn Barnacle	Ocean	200	All day							✓	✓
Chambered Nautilus	Ocean	900	4pm - 9am							✓	✓
Dungeness Crab	Ocean	1,900	All day								✓
Ear Shell	Ocean	300	4pm - 9am							✓
Firefly Squid	Ocean	1,400	9pm - 4am								✓
Giant Isopod	Island	9,000	All day							✓	✓
Gigas Giant Clam	Ocean	15,000	All day								✓
Lobster	Ocean	2,500	All day							✓	✓
Mantis Shrimp	Ocean	1,250	4pm - 9am							✓	✓
Octopus	Ocean	1,000	All day							✓	✓
Pearl Oyster	Ocean	1,600	All day							✓	✓
Scallop	Ocean	1,000	All day							✓	✓
Sea Anemone	Ocean	100	All day							✓	✓
Sea Slug	Ocean	200	All day							✓	✓
Sea Star	Ocean	100	All day							✓	✓
Sea Urchin	Ocean	800	All day							✓	✓
Sea pineapple	Ocean	1,500	All day								✓
Seaweed	Ocean	200	All day							✓	✓
Slate Pencil Urchin	Ocean	1,700	All day								✓
Spotted Garden Eel	Island	600	All day							✓	✓
Turban Shell	Ocean	300	All day							✓	✓
Umbrella Octopus	Ocean	6,000	All day								✓
Vampire Squid	Ocean	10,000	4pm - 9am								✓
Whelk	Ocean	1,000	All day								✓
Notes: Location, price, and time, comes from the collectible's most recent appearance. For older information, please see that collectible's individual page. The flat stag beetle is listed under stag beetle, the Ladybug from Wild World and later is listed under Spotted ladybug and the water beetle is listed under Diving beetle. A bold name indicates that collectible makes its first appearance that month. A red background indicates that collectible will not be available in the next month. Collectibles that are available on New Leaf's Island are not listed if they do not appear in the town in this month, however, island-exclusive collectibles such as the whale shark are listed for every month. Please report any errors to Module talk:MonthCollectables.