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r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Please read the rules, pinned announcements and the wiki/FAQ before posting. Failure to do so may result in a removal or ban. Given the high volume of posts, there are no warnings given out. If you've never contributed positively to this subreddit (or travel-adjacent subreddits) before being banned, your chance of a successful appeal to any ban is nearly zero. Happy travels! Founded 2008 · 14.5M members

14.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 98K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
14.5Mmembers
98Kbest post
4Kmost comments
1.2Kposts 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.

49% 33% 11%
Text 49% Question 33% Gallery 11% Image 7%

The topics it labels

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

Question — General 458 Question — Itinerary 280 Question — Transport 110 Images + Trip Report 104 Images 80 Discussion 58 Question — Accommodation 33 Complaint 18 My Advice 11 Travelers Only 9

What the ceiling looks like

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

I cycled across Mongolia. Here are some pics.

↑ 98K 💬 1.1K gallery 2024

I visited North Korea recently, these are some of the photos.

↑ 58.5K 💬 2.8K gallery 2021

Taken with a phone out of my hotel window in Venice... and no boats!

↑ 44.3K 💬 624 image 2018

4 days in Slovenia completely exceeded my expectations

↑ 42.2K 💬 983 gallery 2026

Taking a ride on the Bernina Express through the Alps

↑ 41.7K 💬 458 video 2020

Have we officially reached the point where Hotels are superior to Airbnbs again?

↑ 36.8K 💬 4K question 2026

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 fro…

↑ 36.4K 💬 544 image 2018

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 fav…

↑ 34.8K 💬 1.6K image 2018

Splurged on a hotel in Patagonia

↑ 33.2K 💬 487 image 2017

A glimpse of Uzbekistan

↑ 31.7K 💬 620 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/travel, in numbers

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

What is r/travel?
r/travel describes itself this way: r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Please read the rules, pinned announcements and the wiki/FAQ before posting. Failure to do so may result in a removal or ban. Given the high volume of posts, there are no warnings given out. If you've never contributed positively to this subreddit (or travel-adjacent subreddits) before being banned, your chance of a successful appeal to any ban is nearly zero. Happy travels. It was founded in 2008 and has 14.5M members.
How many members does r/travel have?
r/travel has about 14.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 98K upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/travel?
"I cycled across Mongolia. Here are some pics." reached 98K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/travel.
What subreddits are similar to r/travel?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PrequelMemes, r/PublicFreakout, r/teenagers, r/DunderMifflin, r/SipsTea, r/comics.
What kind of posts do best on r/travel?
Of the posts we hold, 49% are text posts and 33% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/travel?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 11:00 UTC (10.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (9.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 11:00 UTC (8.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/travel?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/travel has 25K 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/travel, 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.