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r/bayarea

San Francisco Bay Area. All the best things to do, to see, and discuss in the San Francisco Bay Area! Founded 2008 · 836.1K members

839.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37K upvotes, which works out to 44 per 1,000 members.

44peak upvotes per 1,000 members
839.8Kmembers
37Kbest post
2.9Kmost comments
950posts 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.

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Text 28% Link 20% Question 19% Image 18% Gallery 10% Video 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Events, Activities & Sports 238 Food, Shopping & Services 192 Work & Housing 136 Traffic, Trains & Transit 122 Scenes from the Bay 87 Fluff & Memes 44 Politics & Local Crime 39 Pets & Animal Services 37 Earthquakes, Weather & Disasters 34 Politics 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Lovely view on highway 24

↑ 37K 💬 957 image 2026

Stanford grads walk out of their commencement when Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage

↑ 31.8K 💬 1.2K video 2026

Yesterday, I stopped street flooding in San Jose by unclogging drains. Enjoy the timelapse.

↑ 30.8K 💬 913 video 2026

u/Pengweather is being recognized outside of Reddit!

↑ 30K 💬 369 gallery 2024

Yesterday, I stopped massive street flooding in the East Bay by unclogging drains. Enjoy the timelapse.

↑ 22.3K 💬 738 video 2026

Tesla workers going back to work this morning...

↑ 21.7K 💬 612 image 2025

Lived in The Bay my whole life, started taking a camera around with me last Fall

↑ 19.2K 💬 634 gallery 2024

A bay area legend giving a shoutout to another late legend

↑ 18.6K 💬 375 image 2026

ICE OUT Protest - Dolores Park

↑ 17.9K 💬 339 video 2026

Petition to ban Twitter/X links from the r/bayarea sub

↑ 17K 💬 721 link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/bayarea, in numbers

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

What is r/bayarea?
r/bayarea ("San Francisco Bay Area") describes itself this way: All the best things to do, to see, and discuss in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded in 2008 and has 836.1K members.
How many members does r/bayarea have?
r/bayarea has about 839.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 950 of its posts; the biggest reached 37K upvotes, which is 44 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/bayarea?
"Lovely view on highway 24" reached 37K upvotes and 957 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/bayarea.
What subreddits are similar to r/bayarea?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/bayarea?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are text posts and 20% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/bayarea?
Across 950 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 21:00 UTC (8.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 03:00 UTC (6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (5.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/bayarea?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/bayarea has 11.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 311 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/bayarea, 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.