Karnataka Vehicle Registrations December 2025: 1,31,450 Units, +16.7% YoY
Full Vahan registration report for Karnataka in December 2025 — one of the five largest car markets in 2025 — total volume, year-on-year and month-on-month change, where the state ranks nationally, and the segment and fuel mix behind the number.
Karnataka in December 2025
1,31,450 vehicles were registered in Karnataka in December 2025. Volume pushed ahead 16.7% against December 2024 and tumbled 27.7% against November. Its best month on record remains October 2025 at 2,56,830.
That made Karnataka the 6th largest vehicle market in India in December 2025, behind West Bengal on 1,31,766 and ahead of Madhya Pradesh on 1,02,915.
That is 6.1% of every vehicle registered in the country that month, +0.04pp against December 2024.
Across 2025 to date — the 12 months of the year that have closed — Karnataka has registered 19,13,164 vehicles, +1.3% on the same months of 2024.
Karnataka monthly registrations
Every calendar year on record, month by month. The dashed end of the current year is the month so far.
What Karnataka buys
70.3% of everything registered in Karnataka in 2025 is two-wheelers, and the state accounts for 6.4% of that segment nationally. Against the national mix, Karnataka skews towards cars and UVs — +0.98pp more of its book than India as a whole.
This split is the calendar year to date. Our Vahan data holds a state's registrations by month, and a state's registrations by vehicle class, but not the two together — so the volumes here cover 2025 rather than December 2025 alone. It holds no manufacturer-by-state table either, which is why no page here says which brand leads in Karnataka.
Karnataka by segment, 2025
Calendar year to date — exact, but with no month axis.
| Segment | 2025 units | Share of state | Share of segment | vs national mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-Wheelers | 13,44,900 | 70.3% | 6.4% | −1.46pp |
| Cars & UVs | 2,97,727 | 15.6% | 7.0% | +0.98pp |
| Three-Wheelers | 69,094 | 3.6% | 5.1% | −1.04pp |
| Goods Carriers | 68,121 | 3.6% | 7.5% | +0.44pp |
| Tractors | 61,940 | 3.2% | 6.1% | −0.22pp |
| Taxis & Cabs | 37,519 | 2.0% | 10.4% | +0.73pp |
| Other | 25,748 | 1.3% | 11.3% | +0.57pp |
| Buses | 8,115 | 0.4% | 6.4% | −0.01pp |
"Share of segment" is this state against every other state in the same segment. "vs national mix" is how much more (or less) of this state's book the segment is than it is of India's.
What Karnataka runs on
10.6% of Karnataka's 2025 registrations are battery electric — 2,03,702 vehicles, against a national average of 8.0%. A year earlier the state was at 9.5%. CNG and LPG account for 5.1% here against 5.3% nationally.
Fuel, like segment, is published against the state for the whole calendar year rather than by month, so these shares are 2025 to date. Hybrids are counted separately from battery electrics.
| Fuel | 2025 units | Share in state | Share in India | vs 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 13,63,410 | 71.3% | 75.0% | −1.59pp |
| Diesel | 2,02,555 | 10.6% | 10.2% | +0.32pp |
| CNG / LPG | 96,637 | 5.1% | 5.3% | 0.00pp |
| Electric | 2,03,702 | 10.6% | 8.0% | +1.16pp |
| Hybrid | 32,575 | 1.7% | 1.3% | +0.05pp |
| Other | 14,285 | 0.7% | 0.3% | +0.06pp |
Every state, December 2025
Registrations by state for December 2025, exact and directly comparable — this is the one state table on the desk that has a real month axis behind it, so the year-on-year column compares the same month a year earlier rather than a part year against a whole one.
| # | State | Dec 2025 | Share of India | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 2,67,831 | 12.5% | +17.4% |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh | 2,32,356 | 10.8% | −1.9% |
| 3 | Tamil Nadu | 1,75,676 | 8.2% | +56.6% |
| 4 | Gujarat | 1,69,518 | 7.9% | +12.8% |
| 5 | West Bengal | 1,31,766 | 6.1% | +32.7% |
| 6 | Karnataka | 1,31,450 | 6.1% | +16.7% |
| 7 | Madhya Pradesh | 1,02,915 | 4.8% | +4.4% |
| 8 | Rajasthan | 1,00,477 | 4.7% | +11.8% |
| 9 | Bihar | 93,674 | 4.4% | +17.3% |
| 10 | Telangana | 93,107 | 4.3% | +22.3% |
| 11 | Kerala | 79,429 | 3.7% | +44.8% |
| 12 | Haryana | 78,263 | 3.6% | −7.5% |
| 13 | Odisha | 70,639 | 3.3% | +38.6% |
| 14 | Punjab | 70,007 | 3.3% | −6.7% |
| 15 | Andhra Pradesh | 63,186 | 2.9% | +12.3% |
Karnataka month by month
The last 15 months on record for Karnataka. The running month is left without a year-on-year figure.
| Month | Registrations | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 (live) | 1,26,140 | — |
| September 2026 | 1,84,206 | +32.0% |
| August 2026 | 1,88,292 | +14.6% |
| July 2026 | 1,86,137 | +37.0% |
| June 2026 | 1,88,927 | +31.7% |
| May 2026 | 1,74,214 | +15.9% |
| April 2026 | 1,85,508 | +25.8% |
| March 2026 | 2,02,992 | +27.9% |
| February 2026 | 1,69,537 | +28.9% |
| January 2026 | 1,96,622 | +14.4% |
| December 2025 | 1,31,450 | +16.7% |
| November 2025 | 1,81,796 | −0.4% |
| October 2025 | 2,56,830 | +27.3% |
| September 2025 | 1,39,533 | +2.2% |
| August 2025 | 1,64,350 | −0.8% |
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Source. Every figure is a vehicle registration, taken daily from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways' Vahan 4 dashboard (vahan.parivahan.gov.in) — the same source FADA and the industry use for retail data. Registrations are not the wholesale dispatch numbers manufacturers announce each month. "EV" means battery electric (Vahan fuels PURE EV and ELECTRIC(BOV)); hybrids are counted separately. Information only, not investment advice.
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