r/travel on SubMouse

About r/travel

In its own words:

r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Please read the rules and pinned announcements before posting. Failure to do so may result in a permanent ban. Clickbait, spam, memes, ads/selling/buying, brochures, referrals, classifieds, surveys or self-promotion will be removed.

The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 9,054 subscribers (+0.06%). It sits just behind r/lifehacks (#59) and ahead of r/anime (#61) in our ranking.

What sets r/travel apart

Compared with other large communities, r/travel leans heavily on text posts (76% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 17%). r/travel is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.2 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 16.2. For its size it is unusually busy: about 10.8 new posts a day per million members, more than 81% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (10:00 UTC) sees about 3.2× as many posts as the quietest (02:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/travel climbed from 14,452,926 to 14,493,012 subscribers (+40.1K, +0.28%). That is about 1,002 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/travel, from 2017 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

I cycled across Mongolia. Here are some pics.u/MaxRoving · Oct 5, 2024 · gallery
I visited North Korea recently, these are some of the photos.u/_mitch_the_gr8 · Mar 2, 2021 · gallery
Taken with a phone out of my hotel window in Venice... and no boats!u/Roadkill80 · Jan 19, 2018 · 39,392 points · 624 comments · image
4 days in Slovenia completely exceeded my expectationsu/thefragile- · Jun 29, 2026 · gallery
Taking a ride on the Bernina Express through the Alpsu/vincanosess · Feb 9, 2020 · 38,036 points · 454 comments · video
Have we officially reached the point where Hotels are superior to Airbnbs again?u/Usual_Confidence_756 · Jan 1, 2026 · text post
Wife and I hate big social events and love traveling. So rather than a normal wedding, traveled to Switzerland and did our vows in private. Photo from the dayMay 5, 2018 · 32,667 points · 565 comments · image
The exact moment I took a step too close to the border between North and South Korea and got a push on the butt from two NK soldiers. What's your favorite travel photo of yourself?u/ingachan · Aug 8, 2018 · 31,750 points · 1,674 comments · image
Splurged on a hotel in Patagoniau/harharharley · Nov 15, 2017 · 30,845 points · 497 comments · link
A glimpse of Uzbekistanu/magelen · Nov 9, 2025 · gallery

What r/travel talks about

Across 672 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “trip”, “advice”, “itinerary”, “tour” and “traveling”. Other frequent themes are europe, japan, visiting, looking, packages and help. Recurring phrases include “tour packages”, “kerala tour”, “packages tour” and “kerala kerala”. By format, 76% are text posts, 13% are galleries and 8% are images.

trip 78
advice 27
itinerary 25
tour 24
traveling 23
europe 22
japan 22
visiting 19
looking 17
packages 17
help 16
thailand 15
december 15
flight 15
solo 15
india 14
tips 14
visit 13

Popular post flairs: Question — General (290), Images + Trip Report (98), Question — Itinerary (83), Discussion (74), Question — Transport (53), My Advice (42).

Activity and best time to post

r/travel gets about 160 new posts a day. The public archive holds 1,569,997 posts and 8,168,057 comments in total, about 5.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (163 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (135). Posting peaks around 10:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.

Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 21, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026

Text posts 76%Galleries 13%Images 8%Links 2%Videos 1%

Rules of r/travel

The moderators of r/travel list 9 rules. In short:

Avoid repetitive questions
Include descriptive title and context
No clickbait, blogspam, or self-promotion
Be as specific as possible
Check Google or direct source before posting
Stay around to answer questions
No low effort posts without details
No racism, trolling, or bad conduct
No spam

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/travel 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 subscribers does r/travel have?

r/travel has 14,493,012 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #60 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 40,086 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.

How old is r/travel?

r/travel was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Feb 3, 2008.

How active is r/travel?

Very active: r/travel gets about 160 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 1,569,997 posts and 8,168,057 comments. In a sample of 672 recent posts we counted 592 different authors.

When is r/travel most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 10:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/travel about?

The community describes itself as: “r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Please read the rules and pinned announcements before posting. Failure to do so may result in a perma…” Recent post titles often mention trip, advice, itinerary, tour and traveling. Most posts are text posts (76%).

Is r/travel safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/travel as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/travel?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/travel accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Avoid repetitive questions”; “Include descriptive title and context”; “No clickbait, blogspam, or self-promotion”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Which communities are like r/travel?

Communities with similar topics include r/announcements (302.6M), r/BikiniBottomTwitter (4.8M), r/buildapc (8.5M), r/personalfinance (21.9M) and r/Damnthatsinteresting (20.6M).

Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 29, 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/travel.

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