About r/delhi
In its own words:
r/Delhi is the place dedicated to Delhi NCR and all that engulfs it
Community guide
r/delhi (#759, about 1.4 million subscribers) is oriented around: r/Delhi is the place dedicated to Delhi NCR and all that engulfs it Recent activity samples show 353 posts/day in recent samples (~94% text, ~4% video, ~2% link). Public rules we collected include: Title and Language; Content Quality; Language and Translation; No Relationship Posts; No Promos/Referrals/Ticket Selling or Self Promotion or Illegal Activity.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Title and Language; Content Quality; Language and Translation; No Relationship Posts.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: AskDelhi, TellDelhi, Serious Replies Only, Food/Drinks. Volume is high—clear titles help.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 7, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,700 subscribers (+0.12%). It sits just behind r/parrots (#758) and ahead of r/MechanicalKeyboards (#760) in our ranking.
What sets r/delhi apart
r/delhi is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 94% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 252.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 100% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.87% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 93% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (16:00 UTC) sees about 7.0× as many posts as the quietest (23:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/delhi grew from 1,388,543 to 1,400,673 subscribers (+12.1K, +0.87%). That is about 276 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/delhi talks about
Across 700 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “chat”, “looking”, “diwali”, “party” and “help”. Other frequent themes are bored, talk, sleep, good, wanna and night. Recurring phrases include “diwali party”, “late night”, “talking session” and “north campus”. By format, 94% are text posts, 4% are videos and 2% are links.
Popular post flairs: AskDelhi (473), TellDelhi (84), Serious Replies Only (73), Food/Drinks (14), Meme/Satire (OC) (12), News (8).
Activity and best time to post
r/delhi gets about 350 new posts a day. The public archive holds 479,270 posts and 6,201,770 comments in total, about 12.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (361 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (272). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 23:00 UTC.
Rules of r/delhi
The moderators of r/delhi list 11 rules. In short:
- Title and Language
- Content Quality
- Language and Translation
- No Relationship Posts
- No Promos/Referrals/Ticket Selling or Self Promotion or Illegal Activity
- No Sexism, Misogyny or Incel Commentary
- Personal Info and Doxxing
- Respect and Behavior
- Content Verification
- Relevance to r/Delhi
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/delhi and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/delhi have?
r/delhi has 1,400,673 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #759 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 12,130 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/delhi?
r/delhi was created on Mar 7, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 6, 2010.
How active is r/delhi?
Very active: r/delhi gets about 350 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 479,270 posts and 6,201,770 comments. In a sample of 700 recent posts we counted 537 different authors.
When is r/delhi most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 23:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/delhi about?
The community describes itself as: “r/Delhi is the place dedicated to Delhi NCR and all that engulfs it” Recent post titles often mention chat, looking, diwali, party and help. Most posts are text posts (94%).
Is r/delhi safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/delhi as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/delhi?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/delhi accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “Title and Language”; “Content Quality”; “Language and Translation”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/delhi?
Communities with similar topics include r/indiasocial (1.8M), r/dating (6.3M), r/teenagers (3.7M), r/CasualConversation (3M) and r/BuyItForLife (4M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/delhi.