How India Ubered in 2025 - Everyday travel, extraordinary scale

Gurgaon, January 6, 2026: At the outset of the new year, Uber India has released highlights from its annual data report, How India Ubered, outlining key trends from how Indians travelled during 2025.

The comprehensive data analysis reveals interesting insights, including cities with the highest Uber usage, total distance covered by Uber rides, intercity travel trends, late-night travel patterns, and evolving rider preferences across the country. The report underscores the growing role of ridesharing in India’s mobility ecosystem and Uber’s continued commitment to making everyday movement more reliable, accessible, and sustainable.

In 2025, Indians Ubered more than ever before, building on last year’s momentum and setting fresh benchmarks for mobility. Collectively, Uber trips spanned over 11.6 billion kilometers during the year, marking a 26.5 percent increase compared to 2024. To put this into perspective, that’s over 3.2 million trips from Srinagar to Kanyakumari in the year, or 8,840 times every single day. 

Riders across India continued to be rated highly by drivers, reflecting courteous and dependable rider behaviour nationwide. Kochi once again stood out, recording the highest average rider rating at 4.91 out of 5. An impressive 98.3 percent of trips in Kochi were rated a full five stars by drivers. Thiruvananthapuram followed closely with an average rating of 4.87, while Pune and Chandigarh also featured among cities with the most highly rated riders.

Below is an overview of insights from How India Ubered in 2025:

• Most Uber trips were booked at 6:00 PM
• Friday continued to be the most popular day of the week for booking an Uber
• November emerged as the most popular month of the year
• December 12, 2025 saw the highest number of trips booked on a single day
• For Uber Rentals, the most popular package booked was 2 hours
• Mumbai, followed by Kolkata saw the highest proportion of late-night trips
• Mumbai, Guwahati, and Chennai led in weekend travel as a share of total trips
• Bhubaneswar and Thiruvananthapuram recorded the highest share of office-hour trips (as a percentage of total trips booked)
• Agra, Mysore, Puri, and Lonavala emerged as the most frequented tourist destinations via Uber Intercity

Uber’s mass and premium mobility offerings continued to see strong adoption during the year. Indians travelled 365 million kilometers in Uber EVs in 2025, spending a total of 54 million hours in electric vehicles, reinforcing the shift towards greener mobility choices. 

Uber Black recorded over 34 million kilometers of travel during the year, reflecting growing demand for premium ride options. Uber Black is available across Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, with airport and work travel being two of the top use cases for the product. 

Uber Courier continued to play a key role in everyday logistics, with deliveries peaking between 1 PM and 3 PM. Around 3 million users tried Uber Courier for the first time during 2025, and one user alone completed as many as 5,218 deliveries over the year. 

Uber Shuttle also saw strong traction, with nearly 800,000 first-time users experiencing app-based bus travel.

India’s Uber 5 

(Top 5 cities in India with the highest number of Uber rides in 2025, in no set order)

• Delhi NCR
• Hyderabad
• Bangalore
• Mumbai
• Pune

Fastest Cities in India (Avg speed):

(The top 5 cities in India in terms of the fastest average speeds clocked on the roads, in descending order)

1. Bhubaneswar
2. Thiruvananthapuram
3. Jaipur
4. Ahmedabad
5. Chandigarh

India’s Top Intercity Routes 
(India’s top 5 intercity routes in 2025, in descending order)

1. Mumbai - Pune
2. Delhi - Agra
3. Bangalore - Mysore
4. Lucknow - Kanpur
5. Ahmedabad - Vadodara

Top 5 Longest Trips 
(Top 5 longest Intercity trips by kilometers traveled, including round trips on Intercity)

1. Gurgaon - Ahmedabad - Gurgaon (1,827 km)
2. Delhi - Ahmedabad - Delhi (1,647 km)
3. Kharagpur - Pune (1,620 km)
4. Delhi - Srinagar - Delhi (1,616 km)
5. Delhi - Prayagraj - Delhi (1,611 km)

Rider Ratings (Citywise)

Uber Pet also continued to delight riders, with pets travelling close to 800,000 kilometers in Ubers during the year.