Punjab Vehicle Registrations January 2026: 81,997 Units, +28.2% YoY
Full Vahan registration report for Punjab in January 2026 — total volume, year-on-year and month-on-month change, where the state ranks nationally, and the segment and fuel mix behind the number.
Punjab in January 2026
81,997 vehicles were registered in Punjab in January 2026. Volume climbed sharply 28.2% against January 2025 and pushed ahead 17.1% against December. Its best month on record remains November 2025 at 1,22,477.
That made Punjab the 15th largest vehicle market in India in January 2026, behind Delhi on 85,347 and ahead of Chhattisgarh on 75,204.
That is 2.9% of every vehicle registered in the country that month, +0.23pp against January 2025.
Across 2026 to date — the 1 months of the year that have closed — Punjab has registered 81,997 vehicles, +28.2% on the same months of 2025.
Punjab monthly registrations
Every calendar year on record, month by month. The running month is left off the line until it closes.
What Punjab buys
63.8% of everything registered in Punjab in 2026 is two-wheelers, and the state accounts for 2.5% of that segment nationally. Against the national mix, Punjab skews towards cars and UVs — +7.28pp 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 January 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 Punjab.
Punjab 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-Wheelers | 3,79,849 | 63.8% | 2.5% | −6.88pp |
| Cars & UVs | 1,33,925 | 22.5% | 4.1% | +7.28pp |
| Tractors | 39,194 | 6.6% | 5.0% | +2.99pp |
| Goods Carriers | 15,233 | 2.6% | 2.1% | −0.77pp |
| Three-Wheelers | 13,902 | 2.3% | 1.4% | −2.28pp |
| Taxis & Cabs | 7,599 | 1.3% | 2.5% | −0.12pp |
| Other | 3,148 | 0.5% | 2.1% | −0.17pp |
| Buses | 2,246 | 0.4% | 2.4% | −0.06pp |
"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 Punjab runs on
6.8% of Punjab's 2026 registrations are battery electric — 40,704 vehicles, against a national average of 10.4%. A year earlier the state was at 5.6%. CNG and LPG account for 2.4% here against 5.6% nationally.
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 | 4,20,949 | 70.7% | 71.7% | −4.98pp |
| Diesel | 1,03,787 | 17.4% | 10.6% | +2.84pp |
| CNG / LPG | 14,077 | 2.4% | 5.6% | +0.40pp |
| Electric | 40,704 | 6.8% | 10.4% | +1.19pp |
| Hybrid | 15,579 | 2.6% | 1.4% | +0.55pp |
Every state, January 2026
Registrations by state for January 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 | Jan 2026 | Share of India | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 3,68,399 | 12.9% | +17.7% |
| 2 | Maharashtra | 3,42,624 | 12.0% | +18.2% |
| 3 | Tamil Nadu | 2,59,452 | 9.1% | +23.6% |
| 4 | Gujarat | 2,09,440 | 7.4% | +27.0% |
| 5 | Karnataka | 1,96,611 | 6.9% | +14.4% |
| 6 | Madhya Pradesh | 1,63,871 | 5.8% | +18.5% |
| 7 | Rajasthan | 1,53,414 | 5.4% | +20.1% |
| 8 | West Bengal | 1,21,090 | 4.3% | +24.6% |
| 9 | Bihar | 1,19,167 | 4.2% | +28.7% |
| 10 | Haryana | 1,03,663 | 3.6% | +3.9% |
| 11 | Telangana | 94,878 | 3.3% | +7.0% |
| 12 | Kerala | 92,384 | 3.2% | +24.2% |
| 13 | Odisha | 87,223 | 3.1% | +24.8% |
| 14 | Delhi | 85,347 | 3.0% | +13.7% |
| 15 | Punjab | 81,997 | 2.9% | +28.2% |
Punjab month by month
The last 15 months on record for Punjab. The running month is left without a year-on-year figure.
| Month | Registrations | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 (live) | 14,868 | — |
| August 2026 | 74,648 | +33.8% |
| July 2026 | 72,905 | +17.2% |
| June 2026 | 70,648 | +31.1% |
| May 2026 | 67,098 | +16.9% |
| April 2026 | 72,361 | +33.2% |
| March 2026 | 71,515 | +16.6% |
| February 2026 | 69,056 | +20.6% |
| January 2026 | 81,997 | +28.2% |
| December 2025 | 69,997 | −6.7% |
| November 2025 | 1,22,477 | +57.8% |
| October 2025 | 94,109 | +42.9% |
| September 2025 | 48,900 | +3.7% |
| August 2025 | 55,778 | −3.3% |
| July 2025 | 62,186 | +9.0% |
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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.
