About r/mexico
In its own words:
Bienvenidos a la casa de los mexicanos en Reddit. Una comunidad para todo lo que tiene que ver con México y lo que le interese a sus usuarios. Te invitamos a leer las reglas de la comunidad y a convivir con los demás.
Community guide
r/mexico (#322, about 3.2 million) is the Mexican Reddit home (read rules; multilingual topics welcome). Rules require respect/flair, civil political talk without hate, no editorialized news titles, allow memes/humor/tweets within bounds; ban sales/surveys/self-promo/spam/doxx/political smear, low-effort/shitposts/dupes; narco topics elsewhere; [SERIO] threads stay serious; promo other subs ≤1/week; personal political opinions aren’t posts; recent events ≤2 weeks for politics rule. Text/Image (~148.6 ppd).
México community board
México-interest posts; narco content belongs in other communities named on-sub.
Flair + no editorialized news
Use correct flair; don’t rewrite news titles; [SERIO] means serious comments only.
Practical pointers
High text/image/link volume; consejo/pregunta flairs in samples.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Apr 26, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,804 subscribers (+0.06%). It sits just behind r/Perfectfit (#321) and ahead of r/baseball (#323) in our ranking.
What sets r/mexico apart
For its size it is unusually busy: about 46.1 new posts a day per million members, more than 92% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (02:00 UTC) sees about 7.8× as many posts as the quietest (09:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/mexico went up from 3,213,221 to 3,225,781 subscribers (+12.6K, +0.39%). That is about 285 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/mexico talks about
Across 700 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “que”, “para”, “los”, “con” and “méxico”. Other frequent themes are por, una, del, qué, las and alguien. Recurring phrases include “alguien sabe”, “qué tan”, “por qué” and “para los”. By format, 43% are text posts, 25% are images and 15% are links.
Popular post flairs: Quiero consejos y opiniones :doge: (250), Pláticas de bar (45), Arte y cultura🎨 (44), Pregunta a México📢 (39), Conversación Casual (32), Noticias📰 (28).
Activity and best time to post
r/mexico gets about 150 new posts a day. The public archive holds 564,241 posts and 10,240,948 comments in total, about 18.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (154 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (118). Posting peaks around 02:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/mexico
The moderators of r/mexico list 14 rules. In short:
- Siempre se respetuoso con los demás. Trolls serán baneados.
- Coloca el FLAIR adecuado a tu publicación
- Mantén la civilidad en discusiones políticas / Evita fomentar odio contra corrientes políticas
- Se aceptan publicaciones en diferentes idiomas y diferentes tópicos
- Evita cambiar el título de noticias y no editorialices la descripción de la publicación.
- Bienvenidos tus memes, humor gráfico, tuits, tiktoks y cartones.
- No aceptamos ventas, encuestas, autopromociones, spam, doxxeo, golpeteos políticos.
- Las publicaciones de bajo esfuerzo, shitposts y republicaciones repetidas pueden ser eliminadas
- Las publicaciones relacionadas al narco van en otras comunidades
- Las publicaciones marcadas como [SERIO] solo aceptan comentarios de la misma naturaleza
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/mexico 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/mexico have?
r/mexico has 3,225,781 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #322 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 12,560 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/mexico created?
r/mexico was created on Apr 26, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
Is r/mexico still active?
Yes. r/mexico gets about 150 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 564,241 posts and 10,240,948 comments. In a sample of 700 recent posts we counted 571 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/mexico?
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 02:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/mexico?
The community describes itself as: “Bienvenidos a la casa de los mexicanos en Reddit. Una comunidad para todo lo que tiene que ver con México y lo que le interese a sus usuarios. Te invitamos a leer las reglas de la comunidad y a convivir con los demás.” Recent post titles often mention que, para, los, con and méxico. Most posts are text posts (43%).
Is r/mexico SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/mexico as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/mexico?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/mexico accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 14 posted rules, starting with: “Siempre se respetuoso con los demás. Trolls serán baneados.”; “Coloca el FLAIR adecuado a tu publicación”; “Mantén la civilidad en discusiones políticas / Evita fomentar odio contra corrientes políticas”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/mexico?
Communities with similar topics include r/brasil (3.4M), r/somethingimade (3.1M), r/xxfitness (3.1M), r/assholedesign (3.1M) and r/Piracy (3.1M).
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/mexico.