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r/sanfranciscoNSFW

San Francisco. Cold summers, thick fog, and beautiful views. Welcome to the subreddit for the gorgeous City by the Bay! San Francisco, California, USA. Founded 2008 · 679.6K members

682.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 68K upvotes, which works out to 100 per 1,000 members.

100peak upvotes per 1,000 members
682.2Kmembers
68Kbest post
3.5Kmost comments
899posts 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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Image 32% Link 20% Text 20% Gallery 14% Question 10% Video 4%

The topics it labels

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

Pic / Video 305 Crime 32 Local Politics 24 Melt ICE 🧊 2 What a nice post! 2 Announcement 2 What a Nice Link! 1 It’s Fireworks 1 NSFW 1 ⚡️MEGATHREAD⚡️ 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Californians formed a human banner at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, for the third No Kings protests.

↑ 68K 💬 3.5K video 2026

Finally! I’ve been chasing this shot for years! Nikon Z8 1/4000 sec f/6.3 ISO 500. Nikkor 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 lens, focus tracking, and 10 frames a s…

↑ 57.9K 💬 1.1K image 2024

San Francisco stands with trans people in the face of Trump dehumanizing them

↑ 45.5K 💬 2.5K image 2025

my friend said there's twin peaks on both ends of market now 💀

↑ 29.7K 💬 584 video 2025

Solidarity with Minneapolis ✊🏼

↑ 28.7K 💬 265 video 2026

People in San Francisco swooped in on an ICE van used to detain a person who showed up for Immigration Court

↑ 27.1K 💬 1.5K video 2025

ICE already causing havoc at SFO

↑ 26.8K 💬 2.6K video 2026

I saw the SF mountain lion this morning when I was coming home from the bar

↑ 24.6K 💬 1.4K video 2026

ICE Protest on Market St.

↑ 23.6K 💬 250 image 2026

No Kings SF - incredible turnout!

↑ 21.9K 💬 634 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/sanfrancisco, in numbers

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

What is r/sanfrancisco?
r/sanfrancisco ("San Francisco") describes itself this way: Cold summers, thick fog, and beautiful views. Welcome to the subreddit for the gorgeous City by the Bay! San Francisco, California, USA. It was founded in 2008 and has 679.6K members.
How many members does r/sanfrancisco have?
r/sanfrancisco has about 682.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 899 of its posts; the biggest reached 68K upvotes, which is 100 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sanfrancisco?
"Californians formed a human banner at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, for the third No Kings protests." reached 68K upvotes and 3.5K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sanfrancisco.
What subreddits are similar to r/sanfrancisco?
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/sanfrancisco?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are image posts and 20% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sanfrancisco?
Across 899 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 20:00 UTC (16.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 01:00 UTC (15.4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (9.4K 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/sanfrancisco?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sanfrancisco has 13.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 313 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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