Introduction:
This post presents a set of leaderboards showcasing the points achieved by participating Local Guides. It contains an overall top 100 leaderboard that ranks the top points achievers, as well as a leaderboard for individual Local Guide levels showcasing the top 100 Local Guides at each level. Finally, for the first time, this month we also include leaderboards showcasing the top Local Guides by points in each country.
The post forms part of a series of leaderboard posts each covering different aspects of the contributions and achievements of Local Guides from all corners of the world. To see an index of these leaderboard posts and all posts associated with them, hit this link.
Why participate?
Many Local Guides share their points achievements in personal posts on Connect’s Connections & celebrations category. However, sharing your points achievements collectively as part of the Leaderboards posts offers some worthwhile advantages. Why? Because here you get much more than the opportunity to brag about your points achievements:
You get a much better and easier comparative analysis of your points achievements with your peers, that is, Local Guides at your own Local Guide level;
You can gain a way to better monitor and chart the progress of your contributions over time;
You have access to a deeper analysis of your points achievements;
You can quickly gain an as-you-go health check that can highlight issues with your contributions;
As well as the inherent competitive and fun element of the Leaderboards, there’s more here than meets the eye as the Leaderboards are more than just about rankings of Local Guides! To learn more see this post.
Do you want to participate?
The good news is, you don’t have to be a “top gun” Level 10 Local Guide with millions of points to participate! There are leaderboards for each Local Guide level so anyone can join in and it’s simple to do! If you want to get on the boards hit this link or leave a comment in this post and someone will jump in to help you. We look forward to seeing on the boards!
Readme - How to read the Points leaderboards (August, 2025)
Briefly, this is what you need to know about the leaderboards in this post. For more details see the leaderboard documentation and the Leaderboard System’s online context-sensitive help information.
The leaderboards in this post present details about the Local Guide points of hundreds of participating Local Guides from all over the world. As well as an overall leaderboard ranking the top 100 Local Guides by points, you will see leaderboards for different Local Guide levels which provide you with direct comparisons of your points achievements with that of your peers. Additionally, leaderboards are included that showcase the top Local Guides by points in each country.
Where shown, [ ] around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this is the first time that this Local Guide has participated on the Top 100 Local Guides leaderboards.
Where shown, ( ) around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this Local Guide levelled up/down on this leaderboard.
An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.
Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicate that that Local Guide is a Googler.
A superscript following a Local Guide’s username indicates that some of that Local Guide’s data was set to private at the time of reading the data for this month’s Leaderboards (see point 12 below). The Leaderboards System uses 8 different superscripts to indicate the varying states of a Local Guide’s profile. On the Points Leaderboards a superscript of [2] indicates that while the Local Guide is included on the points leaderboards, because their Maps profile was hidden, they will not be included on this month’s Photo Views leaderboards!
Local Guides suspended or who have left the Local Guides program are excluded from the Points Leaderboards.
Hovering over a Local Guide’s username will display the number that integrates that Local Guide’s details on the Leaderboards System and Connect; the umbilical chord if you will between the two disparate systems.
Selecting a Connect username will take you to either that Local Guide’s Connect Profile or to their Brick on the Wall of Fame. If a number is displayed in a small gray circle following a username, that number indicates the number of times anyone has selected that username to visit the respective Local Guide’s Connect profile or Brick in the Wall.
A ? or the words “Not set” in a cell indicates that the respective value hasn’t been provided by or cannot be determined for the respective Local Guide.
Usernames shown as @Anonymous have either been deleted from or have left the Local Guides program.
The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 1330 on Wednesday, September 4, 2025 (UTC).
Local Guides included on the leaderboards must check their entries for any errors. If you should find any errors or omissions, please add the details in a comment on this post. Regarding omissions, please note point 10 above.
I'm sure you'll agree that anyone with a MILLION points needs to be
specially highlighted on these leaderboards and this is what the Million Points Club is all
about. The leaderboard shown below lists the participating Local Guides with an incredible
MILLION+ points on Google Maps. Hard to believe but there you are, it is possible and
we all can one day achieve this and there's plenty of room in this club for each and
everyone of us
Let’s welcome all the new Leaderboard participants and it’s a big lineup this month. The new participants leaderboard is a leaderboard in it’s own right And once again some heavy hitters in the mix with @AkSakei from Japan jumping straight into the exclusive Million Points club and looks like @Abotorab is not far off joining him.
And a special welcome to @KevinKwok. Kevin is a Lead UX (user experience) Designer on the Google Maps team and while I stand to be corrected, in the back of my mind I seem to recall reading somewhere that he was a City Expert back in days when that’s what Local Guides was called. Kevin is the second Googler joining the Leaderboards as some will recall @TraciC was a participant back in 2021 with her then star photo. Come back Traci, come back
You’ll see that I decided to try something different and move the country/points leaderboards out of the Country leaderboard post and I invite everyone’s views on this. What do you think about this slightly modified structure? I had a problem on second part of the Country Rankings: Top 3 Local Guides (Points) leaderboard but time being against me, will have to come back to it later.
Thanks @TerryPG I see it there and also on the Level 10 Points Leaderboard. This error was caused by some registration problem that @Abotorab was having (see here) which I only fixed at the very last minute and in fact it caused a delay in posting this first leaderboard post for August.