About r/london
In its own words:
A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community.
Community guide
r/london (#661, about 1.6 million subscribers) — A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community. A recent sample averaged 89 posts a day (~58% text, ~17% image, ~11% link). Its public rules include: Keep it local!; RTFM!; Be civil - no hate speech, extremism, or bullying; Shaming or compromising photos/videos must be anonymised; No private sales. It is listed under “Local”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Low-effort memes/empty shitposts are often removed—add real context. Civility rules are enforced; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rule list—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Search before reposting common clips/questions. Common flairs include: Question, image, Image, Transport.
The community was created on Jul 30, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,977 subscribers (+0.12%). Among the 15 communities on our united kingdom list it is number 2 by size. It sits just behind r/rpg (#660) and ahead of r/Nbamemes (#663) in our ranking.
What sets r/london apart
For its size it is unusually busy: about 54.7 new posts a day per million members, more than 86% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.92% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 88% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (10:00 UTC) sees about 19.0× as many posts as the quietest (03:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/london climbed from 1,588,308 to 1,602,897 subscribers (+14.6K, +0.92%). That is about 286 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/london this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 9, 2026).
- London this morning looking like the opening scene of a horror film 🌫️u/TheQuietCipher01 · Nov 7 · image
- Landing at Heathrow this morning 🌁u/Choice-Dependent9653 · Nov 7 · gallery
- Dark Shard Quarter?u/njru · Nov 4 · image
- London fog and autumn colours, straight out of a dreamer's playbook.u/Aragonex · Nov 8 · gallery
- Brixton's Got Talentu/oscar_w · Nov 4 · video
- There is a little office in Blackfriars rail bridgeu/eerst · Nov 5 · gallery
- London is amazingu/Plague_Doc7 · Nov 7 · text post
- Stratford this morningu/RDHertsUni · Nov 7 · image
- Morden is fun tonight…u/mechanizmz · Nov 3 · gallery
- One Leadenhall overlooking the entrance to Leadenhall Market from Leadenhall Place. Very Leadenhally.u/Cinn4monSynonym · Nov 3 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/london, from 2017 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- More Anti Elon: Leyton High Rd Bus stopu/londondanno · Mar 4, 2025 · image
- Luigi Mangione in Bethnal Greenu/NubileOne · Mar 17, 2025 · gallery
- At the US Embassyu/Physical_Echo_9372 · Jan 20, 2025 · image
- Anti-Tesla ad on the tube.u/Ti47_867 · Mar 2, 2025 · image
- A heiling Elon Musk, with the US Presidential Seal attached to chargers at the Tesla Centre in Tottenhamu/CorleoneBaloney · Mar 28, 2025 · video
- Uber driver took advantage of my friend when she was drunku/shad121 · May 19, 2024 · image
- Another beautiful day in London - Elon Musk's Tesla 'Swasticar Showroom' This Way.u/Safe_Wave5018 · Apr 7, 2025 · video
- I spent the morning removing fascist stickers from Waterloo... what did I learn.u/--Casper- · Sep 14, 2025 · gallery
- I take pictures of London. This is how I see it. Pt 5u/barz · May 29, 2024 · gallery
- Amazing how negative the British public can be...everyone raves about how China built a hospital in 8 days and how pathetic the UK were, fighting over toilet paper...And yet we've built a new hospita…u/BrickTop1504 · Mar 31, 2020 · 40,687 points · 1,351 comments · image
What r/london talks about
We read the titles of 333 recent posts (Oct 31–Nov 7), the words that come up most are “looking”, “ticket”, “night”, “free” and “november”. Other frequent themes are near, park, tonight, city, street and place. Recurring phrases include “oxford street”, “free ticket”, “lime bike” and “drink thrown”. By format, 62% are text posts, 16% are images and 11% are links.
Popular post flairs: Question (25), image (21), Image (18), Ticket giveaway - FREE! (15), Serious replies only (14), Discussion (11).
Activity and best time to post
r/london gets about 88 new posts a day. The public archive holds 393,034 posts and 6,646,887 comments in total, about 16.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (88 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (60). Posting peaks around 10:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.
Rules of r/london
The moderators of r/london list 12 rules. In short:
- Keep it local!
- RTFM!
- Be civil - no hate speech, extremism, or bullying
- Shaming or compromising photos/videos must be anonymised
- No private sales
- No excessive self promotion
- Submissions cannot be memes, image macros, or reaction gifs
- Avoid reposts and duplicates
- Use the flairs
- No more than 1 photo posts per user per day
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/london and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/london have?
r/london has 1,602,897 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #661 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 14,589 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/london created?
r/london was created on Jul 30, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jul 31, 2008.
Is r/london still active?
Yes. r/london gets about 88 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 393,034 posts and 6,646,887 comments. In a sample of 333 recent posts we counted 290 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/london?
Based on post counts from Oct 31, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026, the busiest day was Sunday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 10:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/london?
The community describes itself as: “A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community.” Recent post titles often mention looking, ticket, night, free and november. Most posts are text posts (62%).
Is r/london SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/london as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/london?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/london accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “Keep it local!”; “RTFM!”; “Be civil - no hate speech, extremism, or bullying”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/london?
Communities with similar topics include r/unitedkingdom (5.6M) and r/LegalAdviceUK (1.4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 9, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/london.