Ladakh Vehicle Registrations September 2026: 115 So Far
Vehicle registrations in Ladakh for September 2026, month to date and updated every day as Vahan publishes them — the running total, where the state ranks, and how it stands against August and September 2025.
Live. September 2026 is still in progress — this page updates every day as new registrations are published.
Ladakh in September 2026
115 vehicles have been registered in Ladakh so far in September 2026. The figure is a running total and rises every day as Vahan publishes registrations, which is why it is not set against a finished month here. August finished at 560, and September 2025 at 231.
That made Ladakh the 35th largest vehicle market in India in September 2026, behind Sikkim on 240 and ahead of Lakshadweep on 9.
That is 0.0% of every vehicle registered in the country in the month so far.
Across 2026 to date — the 8 months of the year that have closed — Ladakh has registered 3,675 vehicles, +26.2% on the same months of 2025.
Ladakh monthly registrations
Every calendar year on record, month by month. The running month is left off the line until it closes.
What Ladakh buys
58.4% of everything registered in Ladakh in 2026 is cars and UVs, and the state accounts for 0.1% of that segment nationally. Against the national mix, Ladakh skews towards cars and UVs — +43.20pp more of its book than India as a whole.
This split is the calendar year to date. Vahan publishes a state's registrations by month, and a state's registrations by vehicle class, but never the two together — so the volumes here cover 2026 rather than September 2026 alone. There is no manufacturer-by-state table anywhere in the source, which is why no page here claims to know which brand leads in Ladakh.
Ladakh by segment, 2026
Calendar year to date — exact, but with no month axis.
| Segment | 2026 units | Share of state | Share of segment | vs national mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cars & UVs | 2,214 | 58.4% | 0.1% | +43.20pp |
| Two-Wheelers | 710 | 18.7% | 0.0% | −51.99pp |
| Goods Carriers | 356 | 9.4% | 0.0% | +6.06pp |
| Other | 309 | 8.2% | 0.2% | +7.45pp |
| Taxis & Cabs | 95 | 2.5% | 0.0% | +1.11pp |
| Buses | 54 | 1.4% | 0.1% | +0.99pp |
| Tractors | 52 | 1.4% | 0.0% | −2.21pp |
"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 Ladakh runs on
0.2% of Ladakh's 2026 registrations are battery electric — 6 vehicles, against a national average of 10.4%. A year earlier the state was at 0.1%.
Fuel, like segment, is published against the state for the whole calendar year rather than by month, so these shares are 2026 to date. Hybrids are counted separately from battery electrics.
| Fuel | 2026 units | Share in state | Share in India | vs 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 2,505 | 66.1% | 71.7% | +11.91pp |
| Diesel | 997 | 26.3% | 10.6% | −13.11pp |
| Electric | 6 | 0.2% | 10.4% | +0.09pp |
| Hybrid | 282 | 7.4% | 1.4% | +1.25pp |
Every state, September 2026
Registrations by state for September 2026, 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 | Sep 2026 | Share of India | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maharashtra | 65,407 | 11.7% | — |
| 2 | Uttar Pradesh | 64,085 | 11.5% | — |
| 3 | Gujarat | 47,822 | 8.6% | — |
| 4 | Tamil Nadu | 46,440 | 8.3% | — |
| 5 | Karnataka | 40,624 | 7.3% | — |
| 6 | Rajasthan | 33,422 | 6.0% | — |
| 7 | Kerala | 27,361 | 4.9% | — |
| 8 | Madhya Pradesh | 25,850 | 4.6% | — |
| 9 | Haryana | 22,204 | 4.0% | — |
| 10 | West Bengal | 21,384 | 3.8% | — |
| 33 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | 382 | 0.1% | — |
| 34 | Sikkim | 240 | 0.0% | — |
| 35 | Ladakh | 115 | 0.0% | — |
| 36 | Lakshadweep | 9 | 0.0% | — |
Ladakh month by month
The last 15 months on record for Ladakh. The running month is left without a year-on-year figure.
| Month | Registrations | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 (live) | 115 | — |
| August 2026 | 560 | +56.0% |
| July 2026 | 638 | +26.8% |
| June 2026 | 724 | +21.9% |
| May 2026 | 664 | +17.1% |
| April 2026 | 466 | +57.4% |
| March 2026 | 170 | −19.4% |
| February 2026 | 152 | +10.9% |
| January 2026 | 301 | +22.4% |
| December 2025 | 367 | +15.8% |
| November 2025 | 343 | −18.7% |
| October 2025 | 444 | +2.5% |
| September 2025 | 231 | −40.0% |
| August 2025 | 359 | −37.0% |
| July 2025 | 503 | −26.1% |
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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.
