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r/awesomenature

Nature is awesome!. Anything natural that is awesome, cool, funky, weird, crazy, scary or makes you say holy shit, that's actually a thing! Founded 2013 · 115.3K members

117.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11.6K upvotes, which works out to 98 per 1,000 members.

98peak upvotes per 1,000 members
117.9Kmembers
11.6Kbest post
2Kmost comments
411posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

55% 27% 11%
Video 55% Image 27% Gallery 11% Link 5% Text 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

One of the clearest rivers in the world

↑ 11.6K 💬 70 video 2026

Death Valley National Park's First Major Superbloom in a Decade

↑ 10.6K 💬 80 video 2026

A waterspout spotted illuminated by lightning

↑ 10K 💬 76 video 2026

Geirangerfjord, Norway

↑ 10K 💬 43 video 2026

I love the perspective 🍃

↑ 9.8K 💬 50 video 2026

It’s absolutely breathtaking

↑ 9.6K 💬 69 video 2026

One of the clearest and bluest ocean I have seen. Rabbit Island in Italy

↑ 9.1K 💬 54 video 2026

🔥 Absolutely Massive Humpback Whale Breaching

↑ 8K 💬 56 video 2026

This is, by far, one of the most spectacular things I've ever seen. So magnificent!!🐳 I pray the world keeps saving the whales.🙏

↑ 7K 💬 62 video 2026

Monarch butterflies in Mexico..

↑ 6.1K 💬 54 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/awesomenature, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/awesomenature?
r/awesomenature ("Nature is awesome!") describes itself this way: Anything natural that is awesome, cool, funky, weird, crazy, scary or makes you say holy shit, that's actually a thing. It was founded in 2013 and has 115.3K members.
How many members does r/awesomenature have?
r/awesomenature has about 117.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 411 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.6K upvotes, which is 98 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/awesomenature?
"One of the clearest rivers in the world" reached 11.6K upvotes and 70 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/awesomenature.
What subreddits are similar to r/awesomenature?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/awesomenature?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are video posts and 27% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/awesomenature?
Across 411 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 02:00 UTC (5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/awesomenature?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/awesomenature has 5.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/awesomenature, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.