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Top 100 Cities in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest cities in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1.3k cities tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 70M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 3.3M, and the largest, Mumbai, reaches around 32M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each city, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Hong Kong 3.4M 32.8 22.2% City
27 Karachi 3.3M 27.3 32.9% City
28 Guwahati 3.1M 33.0 26.5% City
29 Dhaka 3.1M 31.1 27.2% City
30 Este, Veneto 3.1M City
31 Lahore 3M 27.2 40.4% City
32 Sydney 2.9M 31.7 23.3% City
33 Vadodara 2.8M 36.1 19.7% City
34 Chandigarh 2.8M 28.2 20.8% City
35 Varanasi 2.8M 35.1 30.9% City
36 Melbourne 2.8M 32.8 27.9% City
37 Jalandhar 2.6M 33.1 28.4% City
38 Surat 2.5M 32.8 31.3% City
39 Ludhiana 2.5M 31.2 30.9% City
40 Bangkok 2.5M 33.1 29.7% City
41 Vijayawada 2.3M 35.0 23.2% City
42 Shanghai 2.1M 32.7 20.7% City
43 Toronto 2.1M 30.9 28.5% City
44 Bhopal 2M 32.6 25.5% City
45 Kozhikode 1.9M 33.7 35.5% City
46 Kanpur 1.9M 32.8 19.6% City
47 Thrissur 1.9M 33.2 32.2% City
48 Jodhpur 1.9M 31.4 20.1% City
49 Shimla 1.9M 34.4 20.9% City
50 Muzaffarpur 1.8M 32.7 15.5% City

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each city by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest city in India?

Mumbai currently leads with an estimated audience of 32M people in India.

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