About r/london
In its own words:
A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community.
Community guide
r/london (#661, about 1.6 million subscribers) is oriented around: A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community. Recent activity samples show 89 posts/day in recent samples (~58% text, ~17% image, ~11% link). Public rules we collected include: Keep it local!; RTFM!; Be civil - no hate speech, extremism, or bullying; Shaming or compromising photos/videos must be anonymised; No private sales. Directory metadata files it under “Local”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Low-effort memes/empty shitposts are often removed—add real context. Civility rules are enforced; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rule list—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Search before reposting common clips/questions. Common flairs in samples include: Question, image, Image, Transport.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jul 30, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,991 subscribers (+0.13%). Among the 15 communities on our united kingdom list it is number 2 by size. It sits just behind r/rpg (#660) and ahead of r/Nbamemes (#663) in our ranking.
What sets r/london apart
For its size it is unusually busy: about 55.5 new posts a day per million members, more than 89% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.79% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 90% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/london climbed from 1,588,308 to 1,600,920 subscribers (+12.6K, +0.79%). That is about 287 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/london talks about
We read the titles of 482 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “looking”, “street”, “free”, “tonight” and “halloween”. Other frequent themes are oxford, ticket, tickets, south, park and help. Recurring phrases include “oxford street”, “free tickets”, “sadiq khan” and “halloween shop”. By format, 58% are text posts, 17% are images and 11% are links.
Popular post flairs: Question (34), image (34), Image (29), Transport (21), Discussion (19), Serious replies only (18).
Activity and best time to post
r/london gets about 89 new posts a day. The public archive holds 393,034 posts and 6,646,887 comments in total, about 16.9 comments per post.
Rules of r/london
The moderators of r/london list 12 rules. In short:
- Keep it local!
- RTFM!
- Be civil - no hate speech, extremism, or bullying
- Shaming or compromising photos/videos must be anonymised
- No private sales
- No excessive self promotion
- Submissions cannot be memes, image macros, or reaction gifs
- Avoid reposts and duplicates
- Use the flairs
- No more than 1 photo posts per user per day
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/london 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/london have?
r/london has 1,600,920 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #661 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 12,612 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/london created?
r/london was created on Jul 30, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jul 31, 2008.
Is r/london still active?
Yes. r/london gets about 89 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 393,034 posts and 6,646,887 comments. In a sample of 482 recent posts we counted 397 different authors.
What kind of posts are on r/london?
The community describes itself as: “A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community.” Recent post titles often mention looking, street, free, tonight and halloween. Most posts are text posts (58%).
Is r/london SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/london as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/london?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/london accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “Keep it local!”; “RTFM!”; “Be civil - no hate speech, extremism, or bullying”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/london?
Communities with similar topics include r/Daytrading (5.2M), r/Nike (1.7M), r/Cricket (1.9M), r/aliens (1.6M) and r/TheWayWeWere (1.7M).
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/london.