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r/California

California - The Golden State. The subreddit for the Golden State of California -- for news and info on what's happening all across the great state of CA! Founded 2008 · 669.5K members · links only

671.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 54.9K upvotes, which works out to 82 per 1,000 members.

82peak upvotes per 1,000 members
671.4Kmembers
54.9Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
444posts 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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The topics it labels

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

California Community Only 19 Politics 18 California News 15 opinion - politics 13 National politics 11 political column - politics 5 Discussion 2 /all 1 Shelter At Home 1 Government/Politics 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

California voters approve new US House map to boost Democrats in 2026

↑ 54.9K 💬 2.1K link 2025

California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing

↑ 46.2K 💬 1.1K link 2026

Gov. Newsom: The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.

↑ 38.1K 💬 2.5K link 2025

Gov. Newsom threatens to withhold billions from California colleges that sign Trump's 'compact'

↑ 36.4K 💬 1K link 2025

Newsom Warns ‘Other States Are Next’ in Speech Against Trump

↑ 35K 💬 1.3K link 2025

Officers who cover their faces could be charged with a misdemeanor under California proposal

↑ 33.8K 💬 614 link 2025

Federal judge says Trump unlawfully federalized members of California’s National Guard

↑ 33.7K 💬 607 link 2025

Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

↑ 33.7K 💬 1.8K link 2025

California becomes first state to join WHO disease network after US exit

↑ 30.3K 💬 523 link 2026

Trump endorses arrest of Gavin Newsom

↑ 29.8K 💬 1.8K link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/California, in numbers

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

What is r/California?
r/California ("California - The Golden State") describes itself this way: The subreddit for the Golden State of California -- for news and info on what's happening all across the great state of CA. It was founded in 2008 and has 669.5K members.
How many members does r/California have?
r/California has about 671.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 444 of its posts; the biggest reached 54.9K upvotes, which is 82 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/California?
"California voters approve new US House map to boost Democrats in 2026" reached 54.9K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/California.
What subreddits are similar to r/California?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/madisonwi, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/California?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts and 0% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/California?
Across 444 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (11.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (11K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (10.3K 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/California?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/California has 17.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 57 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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