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r/Wellington

Wellington, New Zealand. Welcome to Wellington, New Zealand! Whether you're living here, moving here or are just curious, feel free to browse around and ask questions. Founded 2010 · 138.4K members

138.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 16.6K upvotes, which works out to 120 per 1,000 members.

120peak upvotes per 1,000 members
138.5Kmembers
16.6Kbest post
982most comments
405posts 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.

40% 28% 18% 9%
Text 40% Image 28% Question 18% Gallery 9% Link 3% Video 1%

The topics it labels

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

WELLY 89 HELP! 69 MODS 34 PHOTOS 33 POLITICS 29 EVENTS 14 WTF? 14 WANTED 13 FOOD 11 WEATHER 11

What the ceiling looks like

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

From the 'Harsh, but fair' files, Nauranga Gorge edition

↑ 16.6K 💬 550 image 2025

Hey r/Wellington

↑ 2.9K 💬 114 text 2019

You bunch of legends.

↑ 2.5K 💬 86 image 2022

Beehive for scale

↑ 2.4K 💬 289 image 2024

Thousands of union members gather in Wellington (3 pictures)

↑ 2K 💬 232 gallery 2024

#JustWellyThings

↑ 1.6K 💬 54 image 2025

Worst NZ government ever?

↑ 1.6K 💬 982 question 2024

$20 capped public transport

↑ 1.5K 💬 457 image 2026

The world premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King transformed Wellington, New Zealand, into the beating heart of Middle-earth. (Dec…

↑ 1.5K 💬 90 gallery 2026

Cuba St Rainbow Crossing = Legal

↑ 1.5K 💬 248 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Wellington, in numbers

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

What is r/Wellington?
r/Wellington ("Wellington, New Zealand") describes itself this way: Welcome to Wellington, New Zealand! Whether you're living here, moving here or are just curious, feel free to browse around and ask questions. It was founded in 2010 and has 138.4K members.
How many members does r/Wellington have?
r/Wellington has about 138.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 405 of its posts; the biggest reached 16.6K upvotes, which is 120 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Wellington?
"From the 'Harsh, but fair' files, Nauranga Gorge edition" reached 16.6K upvotes and 550 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Wellington.
What subreddits are similar to r/Wellington?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Wellington?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are text posts and 28% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Wellington?
Across 405 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 20:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 07:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 19:00 UTC (953 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/Wellington?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Wellington has 1.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 18 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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