Which Indian cities have the most shops?
Updated
Counted from Sunaam's directory of Indian businesses. Here, shops means clothing, electronics, hardware, convenience and other shops.
The short answer
Delhi has the most shops of any Indian city in Sunaam's directory, with 23,982, followed by Bengaluru (21,944) and Mumbai (14,148). Measured as a share of all local businesses instead, Guwahati leans furthest towards shops: 35.3% of its listings, against 18.6% across India. In all, the directory counts 2,89,098 shops in 3,469 towns and cities, and 68.6% of those with an online footprint list a website (72.1% of all businesses do).
- Delhi: 23,982 shops, the most of any Indian city
- Bengaluru is second (21,944), Mumbai third (14,148)
- Highest share of local businesses: Guwahati (35.3%)
- Clothing stores are the largest group (28%)
The 20 Indian cities with the most shops
The biggest cities have the most of everything, so this list mostly follows city size. Delhi alone holds 8.3% of all the shops in the directory.
Shops by city
The 12 cities with the most, by number of listings.
- Delhi23,982
- Bengaluru21,944
- Mumbai14,148
- Hyderabad10,261
- Chennai9,939
- Pune8,065
- Kolkata7,877
- Ahmedabad5,891
- Kochi5,165
- Guwahati4,242
- Jaipur4,222
- Surat3,404
| # | City | State | Shops | Share of India's |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delhi | Delhi | 23,982 | 8.3% |
| 2 | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 21,944 | 7.6% |
| 3 | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 14,148 | 4.9% |
| 4 | Hyderabad | Telangana | 10,261 | 3.5% |
| 5 | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 9,939 | 3.4% |
| 6 | Pune | Maharashtra | 8,065 | 2.8% |
| 7 | Kolkata | West Bengal | 7,877 | 2.7% |
| 8 | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 5,891 | 2.0% |
| 9 | Kochi | Kerala | 5,165 | 1.8% |
| 10 | Guwahati | Assam | 4,242 | 1.5% |
| 11 | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 4,222 | 1.5% |
| 12 | Surat | Gujarat | 3,404 | 1.2% |
| 13 | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 2,813 | 1.0% |
| 14 | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | 2,762 | 1.0% |
| 15 | Chandigarh | Chandigarh | 2,624 | 0.9% |
| 16 | Vijayawada | Andhra Pradesh | 2,566 | 0.9% |
| 17 | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 2,555 | 0.9% |
| 18 | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 2,201 | 0.8% |
| 19 | Patna | Bihar | 2,124 | 0.7% |
| 20 | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 2,062 | 0.7% |
Which cities lean most towards shops?
Size aside, some cities have a far bigger share of shops than others. Across India, shops are 18.6% of listed businesses; in Guwahati they are 35.3%.
Shops as a share of each city's businesses
Cities with at least 10,000 listed businesses (20 cities), highest share first.
- Guwahati35.3%
- Kochi28.7%
- Thiruvananthapuram27.2%
- Bengaluru24.2%
- Coimbatore22.2%
- Surat21.5%
- Chennai20.2%
- Delhi20.1%
- Jaipur19.1%
- Hyderabad18.5%
What counts as a shop here
Clothing stores are the largest group, at 28% of the 2,89,098 counted.
By category
Listings in each directory category.
- Clothing stores80,139
- Electronics stores45,471
- Hardware stores39,370
- Shops28,250
- Convenience stores21,728
- Wholesales13,315
- Sports5,999
- Malls5,526
How many shops have a website?
68.6% of shops with an online footprint list a website and 94% a phone number, against 72.1% and 87.9% of all businesses. Every kind of business compared.
| Checked | Website | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All shops | 2,46,735 | 68.6% | 94% |
| Delhi | 18,124 | 77.7% | 94.2% |
| Bengaluru | 12,597 | 83.7% | 94.7% |
| Mumbai | 11,494 | 75.1% | 94.1% |
| Hyderabad | 7,445 | 77.1% | 93.4% |
| Chennai | 7,313 | 79.2% | 94.9% |
| All businesses | 14,27,010 | 72.1% | 87.9% |
Other kinds of business: restaurants, clinics and hospitals, salons, gyms.
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 shops?." Teknesya Networks Pvt Ltd, 2026. https://sunaam.io/research/cities-with-the-most/shops
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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