About r/mumbai
In its own words:
Welcome to Mumbai's Reddit Community! A subreddit where everyone can come together and discuss and share everything from posts, news articles, events, activities, pictures, hold meetups & overall general stuff related to the city and its surrounding metropolitan area. Also, if visiting the city and have any queries, feel free to post them!
Community guide
r/mumbai (#954, about 1.2 million) is Mumbai’s city community for news, events, photos and AskMumbai threads—civil, NSFW-free, and closed to hookup or drug solicitation posts.
What belongs
Mumbai metro life (about 162 posts/day). Rules: civility; no NSFW; no commercial self-promo; don’t editorialize titles; politics must relate to the city; no PII requests; no low quality; no hookups/FWB/dating meetup ads; no drug solicitation; no fundraising posts.
Versus bangalore
Both are major Indian city subs. mumbai’s public rules emphasise anti-hookup and city-tied politics; bangalore emphasises RE/career bans.
Practical pointers
Use AskMumbai for questions; keep titles faithful to sources.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Nov 26, 2008, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,417 subscribers (+0.13%). It sits just behind r/bangalore (#953) and ahead of r/Animesuggest (#955) in our ranking.
What sets r/mumbai apart
Compared with other large communities, r/mumbai leans heavily on text posts (61% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 34%). For its size it is unusually busy: about 145.8 new posts a day per million members, more than 98% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.77% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 88% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (06:00 UTC) sees about 11.3× as many posts as the quietest (23:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/mumbai climbed from 1,102,647 to 1,111,149 subscribers (+8.5K, +0.77%). That is about 193 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/mumbai talks about
We read the titles of 699 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “looking”, “help”, “good”, “diwali” and “city”. Other frequent themes are advice, near, recommendations, andheri, night and tickets. Recurring phrases include “marine drive”, “diwali party”, “lower parel” and “halloween party”. By format, 61% are text posts, 16% are images and 12% are links.
Popular post flairs: AskMumbai (283), General (227), Discussion (105), Careers (27), Photography (26), Relationships (15).
Activity and best time to post
r/mumbai gets about 160 new posts a day. The public archive holds 312,101 posts and 3,025,340 comments in total, about 9.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (169 posts) and the quietest was Tuesday (135). Posting peaks around 06:00 UTC and is lowest around 23:00 UTC.
Rules of r/mumbai
The moderators of r/mumbai list 10 rules. In short:
- Be Civil
- No NSFW Content
- No Commercial Advertisement / Self Promotion
- Don't Editorialize Titles
- No Political Posts Unrelated To Mumbai City
- Don't Post Or Ask For Personal Information
- No Low Quality Submissions
- No Submissions Looking For Hookups / FWB / Dates / Meetups
- No Solicitation of Drugs
- No Fundraising / Donation Posts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/mumbai 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/mumbai have?
r/mumbai has 1,111,149 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #954 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 8,502 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/mumbai created?
r/mumbai was created on Nov 26, 2008, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Aug 15, 2009.
Is r/mumbai still active?
Yes. r/mumbai gets about 160 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 312,101 posts and 3,025,340 comments. In a sample of 699 recent posts we counted 617 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/mumbai?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Tuesday, and most posts arrive around 06:00 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 kind of posts are on r/mumbai?
The community describes itself as: “Welcome to Mumbai's Reddit Community! A subreddit where everyone can come together and discuss and share everything from posts, news articles, events, activities, pictures, hold meetups & overall general stuff related t…” Recent post titles often mention looking, help, good, diwali and city. Most posts are text posts (61%).
Is r/mumbai SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/mumbai as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/mumbai?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/mumbai accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Be Civil”; “No NSFW Content”; “No Commercial Advertisement / Self Promotion”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/mumbai?
Communities with similar topics include r/Aquariums (1.6M), r/holdmycosmo (2M), r/bicycling (1.2M), r/news (31.6M) and r/Coronavirus (2.6M).
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/mumbai.