Which Indian cities have the most salons?
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Counted from Sunaam's directory of Indian businesses. Here, salons means beauty salons, spas and massage, and hairdressers.
The short answer
Delhi has the most salons of any Indian city in Sunaam's directory, with 3,602, followed by Mumbai (2,762) and Bengaluru (2,757). Measured as a share of all local businesses instead, Chandigarh leans furthest towards salons: 3.6% of its listings, against 2.3% across India. In all, the directory counts 35,327 salons in 2,059 towns and cities, and 56% of those with an online footprint list a website (72.1% of all businesses do).
- Delhi: 3,602 salons, the most of any Indian city
- Mumbai is second (2,762), Bengaluru third (2,757)
- Highest share of local businesses: Chandigarh (3.6%)
- Beauty salons are the largest group (74%)
The 20 Indian cities with the most salons
The biggest cities have the most of everything, so this list mostly follows city size. Delhi alone holds 10% of all the salons in the directory.
Salons by city
The 12 cities with the most, by number of listings.
- Delhi3,602
- Mumbai2,762
- Bengaluru2,757
- Kolkata1,597
- Pune1,445
- Chennai1,443
- Hyderabad1,394
- Ahmedabad939
- Kochi566
- Chandigarh553
- Lucknow485
- Surat438
| # | City | State | Salons | Share of India's |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delhi | Delhi | 3,602 | 10% |
| 2 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 2,762 | 7.8% |
| 3 | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 2,757 | 7.8% |
| 4 | Kolkata | West Bengal | 1,597 | 4.5% |
| 5 | Pune | Maharashtra | 1,445 | 4.1% |
| 6 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 1,443 | 4.1% |
| 7 | Hyderabad | Telangana | 1,394 | 3.9% |
| 8 | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 939 | 2.7% |
| 9 | Kochi | Kerala | 566 | 1.6% |
| 10 | Chandigarh | Chandigarh | 553 | 1.6% |
| 11 | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 485 | 1.4% |
| 12 | Surat | Gujarat | 438 | 1.2% |
| 13 | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 435 | 1.2% |
| 14 | Guwahati | Assam | 379 | 1.1% |
| 15 | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 355 | 1.0% |
| 16 | Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 351 | 1.0% |
| 17 | Vadodara | Gujarat | 330 | 0.9% |
| 18 | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 307 | 0.9% |
| 19 | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 277 | 0.8% |
| 20 | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | 276 | 0.8% |
Which cities lean most towards salons?
Size aside, some cities have a far bigger share of salons than others. Across India, salons are 2.3% of listed businesses; in Chandigarh they are 3.6%.
Salons as a share of each city's businesses
Cities with at least 10,000 listed businesses (20 cities), highest share first.
- Chandigarh3.6%
- Mumbai3.5%
- Kolkata3.4%
- Guwahati3.1%
- Kochi3.1%
- Pune3.1%
- Bengaluru3%
- Delhi3%
- Vadodara3%
- Chennai2.9%
What counts as a salon here
Beauty salons are the largest group, at 74% of the 35,327 counted.
By category
Listings in each directory category.
- Beauty salons26,224
- Massages7,506
- Hairdressers1,504
- Tattoos85
- Hairdresser supplies8
How many salons have a website?
56% of salons with an online footprint list a website and 96.9% a phone number, against 72.1% and 87.9% of all businesses. Every kind of business compared.
| Checked | Website | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All salons | 32,272 | 56% | 96.9% |
| Delhi | 3,083 | 64.2% | 97.2% |
| Mumbai | 2,467 | 57.6% | 96.9% |
| Bengaluru | 1,936 | 70.2% | 97.1% |
| Kolkata | 1,550 | 47.8% | 97% |
| Pune | 1,230 | 58% | 97.4% |
| All businesses | 14,27,010 | 72.1% | 87.9% |
Other kinds of business: restaurants, clinics and hospitals, gyms, shops.
How we counted
Every figure is a direct count of the businesses in Sunaam's public directory, built from two open sources: Overture Maps (which draws on Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others; places with confidence 0.7 or higher, closed places and non-businesses left out) and OpenStreetMap. A business both sources hold is counted once. It is a count of listed businesses, not a census: a shop no map has recorded is not in it.
Website and phone shares are counted over the Overture listings only. Overture is built from businesses' own web presence (Facebook pages, search listings), so these shares answer “of the businesses with an online footprint, how many list a website?”. Businesses mapped on the ground list far fewer; the State of Local Business report shows both.
A city is the area around its centre: a square about 45 to 50 km across for Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad, and about 25 km across for other large cities, so “Delhi” includes parts of Noida, Gurugram and Ghaziabad. Anywhere else, a business belongs to the nearest town of 15,000 or more people (GeoNames).
Cite this study
Sunaam Research. "Which Indian cities have the most salons?." Teknesya Networks Pvt Ltd, 2026. https://sunaam.io/research/cities-with-the-most/salons
You are welcome to quote any figure on this page with a link back to it.
Business data: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare (Foursquare data under Apache-2.0). Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
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