Every Kapp'n Mystery Island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

It's never a dull day in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! In the battle for the best transportation services, your great uncle Kapp'n will pull out the big guns and offer to take you to the islands at a completely different time of day or even a different time of year.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the mysterious paths the turtle takes you on depend on how long you play, as well as what fortune Katrina predicts. This list explains how to get a chance on each island and ranks them all.

Updated March 28, 2026 Gabrielle Castania: Today we're updating our ACNH Kapp'n Island review with a few more photos, simplified information in tables for each island, and links to other Animal Crossing content we've posted since our last update. Happy island hopping, to the new and returning players!

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Standard Kapp'n Island

If you want to head to an island quite like a regular Nook Miles island, but without a villager to seek out, then the basic islands in Kapp'n Tours are just that. If Katrina tells you during a fortune reading you will have bad luck with things it's best to stay home for the day because chances are you'll end up here.

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Any buried Gyroid shards you find will turn into buried dirt on these islands, and while you may get an extra pile or two of native fruit and coconuts, these extremely simple islands aren't much to write home about.

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Islands of crops ready for harvest

Farming wasn't in Animal Crossing: New Horizons when it launched in March 2020, but fans liked it enough once it was added in a much-hyped later update. If you're not trying to wait for Leif to sell you seed for your home farms, then you might be lucky enough to find an island of Kapp'n filled with one of the game's six potential crops.

Each of the crop islands that Kapp'n can take you to will have an abundance of carrots, potatoes, pumpkins, sugarcane, tomatoes or wheat that you can dig up with a shovel and bring home with you to plant on your island as fully grown plants ready for harvest and unlimited growth.

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Rainy gyroid islands

The rarest of the regular islands may seem gloomy, but it offers a beautiful surprise. As we know, you always have to water the planted gyroid fragments to grow a full gyroid. So if you land somewhere where it rains all the time, you're bound to have some fully grown gyroid buddies!

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When you arrive at these islands, you will immediately notice the downpour. Not only can you find an assortment of bugs and fish in the rainy weather, but you'll also find a full-grown Gyroid waiting for you in an excavated spot on the island, instead of just a Gyroid fragment.

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Islands of vines and moss

This island used to be much higher up in our ACNH Kapp'n Islands rankings, but now that the hype surrounding the update it was introduced in has died down over time, the luster has fallen a bit. Still, if you need to stock up on glowing moss, stacks of vines, or decorative plumeria bushes, here's your chance!

Along the coast you'll also be sure to find one of the recipes that uses either or both of the new crafting materials with Glowing Moss and Vines. Introduction has added a lot of creative furniture to our DIY catalogs, so it never hurts to be inventive!

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Bamboo Islands

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To unlock the ability to visit these distant shores, your character must experience each of these natural events in their own home. Once your own island is enriched with bamboo for the first time, you'll be able to head to Kapp'n Island, where fully grown bamboo grows alongside an assortment of regular trees.

Not only do you have another chance to stock up on young spring bamboo and a new recipe to use it with if you didn't collect it during your own spring bamboo harvesting season, but you'll also have access to seasonal bugs and fish if you missed anything at home during the original season.

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Autumn mushroom islands

The next best place to turn is a cozy autumn flower bed, where all kinds of mushrooms grow. They exist five types of mushrooms possible to find in this game, including a rare mushroom. This resembles a truffle and can be dug around the base of trees – where are your pig villagers when you need them?

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The beaches here are littered with porridge-themed do-it-yourselfers in case you missed any during November. Other than that, it's a pretty normal island with trees in a range of warm colors. Charming!

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Snowy winter islands

Can you hear the sleigh bells ringing? No? That's okay, because it's going to snow on these Kapp'n mystery islands anyway! You might not have access to the magic of Animal Crossing's infamous family of snowmen that have become the hallmark of winter in your homes, but either way you'll have plenty of snowflakes to catch!

Everything is covered in snow no matter what the weather is like on your home island, and winter fish and insects are up for grabs when you're around. You'll also get a new ice DIY recipe in case you're missing out on some winter wonder at home.

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Cherry Blossom Islands

In Japan, it's an incredibly popular season when the cherry blossoms bloom and fall, turning the atmosphere a soft pink for a few weeks. Animal Crossing experiences the same and has a wonderful DIY set to go with it. The season may be awfully short, but these Cherry Blossom Kapp'n Islands are your chance to get a few extra petals.

These islands are some of the most picturesque in the series and offer a super cozy atmosphere with pretty pink petals floating in the air. If you haven't completed the collection yet, search the coast to find your own recipe for the Cherry Blossom set!

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Summer beetle islands

Any old timer when it comes to the Animal Crossing series can tell you that summer bugs have always been there if you're trying to sell critters to make some extra bells, and these mysterious islands of Kapp'n offer you a chance to try and harvest some of the best of the best. You may not be looking forward to summer clams on these islands, but the bugs and critters keep on crawling.

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New Leaf fans who remember Kapp'n bringing them to these islands earlier will be grateful for the chance to reminisce about old days on the island with Kapp'n and his family, who have since returned to New Horizons to act as hotel staff for your Island Resort, introduced in the game's early 2026 update.

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Summer Shell Islands

Who needs real summer in real life when you can experience summer in Animal Crossing? Sharks circle the coast and are ready to earn you some good money if you take the time to catch them, and palm trees are full of giant bugs, and experienced players know that summer is the time to cash in on Critterpedia.

Along the shores of these seasonal Kapp'n islands, you'll also find an abundance of rarer blue summer clams, along with what's likely to be more of a beachy DIY recipe to keep your summer beach party going when you get home.