How Tamil Nadu compares with other states: new vehicles registered each month, and what changed since last month and last year.
What this page shows, in plain words
States
The number is where the vehicle was registered, which is usually where the owner lives or the business is based. States and union territories are listed as VAHAN reports them.
Filters
Show all vehicles, or only one vehicle group or one fuel. Pick one filter at a time. Select a state to see its months and what it registered. Tamil Nadu is selected to start with.
Not the same as sales
A registration is not a dealer sale. A vehicle sold at the end of a month may be registered in the next. Only complete months are shown.
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About these figures
- Source. VAHAN Public Report, Parivahan Analytics, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India (analytics.parivahan.gov.in). Downloaded by us; the latest download is dated 1 November 2026.
- Registrations, not sales. A vehicle is counted when it is registered with a Regional Transport Office. This is not the number sold by dealers, and a vehicle sold in one month may be registered in the next.
- Complete months only, from January 2025. A month is published only after it has ended. The latest month shown is October 2026. A year is the sum of its months.
- Only official figures. Every number is as published by VAHAN. The only things we calculate are the change against the month before and against a year earlier, in percent: (this period − earlier period) ÷ earlier period. We do not calculate shares or per-person figures.
- VAHAN revises recent months. A month can change by one or two vehicles when we download it again. Two reports for the same month can therefore differ by that much. When a published figure changes, the change is logged.
- Bus column left out of group splits. In VAHAN’s reports that split vehicles by category group together with makers, offices or states, the “Bus” column counts some vehicles a second time (they are also in another group). We leave that column out. With it removed, each split is within 0.01 percent of the month’s total. The files we downloaded are kept unchanged.
- Checks. Before publishing we check that every split adds up to the same monthly total (to within two vehicles, because of the revisions), that each maker has the same total in its fuel, vehicle-type and office reports, that the Tamil Nadu row of the all-states reports agrees, and that every name is in our list of values.
- States that changed. State names follow VAHAN’s own list, for example “UT of DNH and DD” for Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Figures published here on 2026-11-01 (version 3).
Vehicles: registrations by state and union territory, by month
New vehicle registrations in every state and union territory, every complete month from January 2025, and split by category group, fuel and maker. Source: VAHAN Public Report.
- vehicles_states.csv CSV · 792 rows · 21 KB
- vehicles_states_by_category_group.csv CSV · 6,945 rows · 457 KB
- vehicles_states_by_fuel.csv CSV · 9,792 rows · 560 KB
- vehicles_states_maker_by_state.csv CSV · 111,488 rows · 9.2 MB
Figures are registrations of new vehicles recorded on VAHAN, not dealer sales. Only complete months are published. VAHAN revises recent months by one or two vehicles, so totals in different reports can differ by that much. In the category-group files VAHAN's Bus column is left out, because VAHAN counts some vehicles in it a second time (they are also in another group).
Column dictionary (5 columns)
| Column | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
state | text | State or union territory |
year | integer | Calendar year |
month | integer | Month (1-12) |
registrations | integer | Vehicles registered |
partial | integer | 1 if the month is not over (always 0) |