Summer Jam 2026: What It Is and How to Make the Most of It
Summer Jam is back. It arrives with the July season on July 1st, and it's one of the most valuable events of the year for actually getting upgrades done — a stretch of cost and time reductions that, played right, can save you weeks. This guide breaks down what Summer Jam is, how it differs from Hammer Jam, and exactly what to do during it.
Source & credit: This guide summarizes the Summer Jam strategy from DrewTookMyName — all the analysis and account-planning insight here is his. Go watch his video and subscribe; he makes guides on everything in Clash of Clans. Note that his breakdown is based on last year's Summer Jam, so if Supercell changes the event this time, some specifics below may shift.
What Summer Jam actually is
Summer Jam brings cost and time reductions, similar in spirit to everyone's favorite event, Hammer Jam — but the structure is very different. Where Hammer Jam is a flat 50% reduction to cost and duration on (almost) everything for about two weeks, Summer Jam is over five weeks long and is really four separate events bundled together, called boot camps:
- Three resource boot camps — one each for Gold, Elixir, and Dark Elixir. Each one reduces that resource's upgrade cost and time by 25%, for roughly 10 days each.
- A final "everything" boot camp — about , applying the reduction to