Visualizing Waymo’s Rise in Ridership

Kayla Zhu
2025-07-07 14:07:00
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Waymo on the Rise in California

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As autonomous driving technology becomes more mainstream, Waymo–Alphabet’s self-driving ride-hailing division–is rapidly gaining traction across California.

This chart visualizes the number of monthly paid Waymo trips in California from August 2023 to March 2025, and a map of the cities that Waymo current operates in and plans to operate in.

Data comes from California Public Utilities Commission.

Californians Have Been Riding With Waymo More Frequently

Below, we show the number of monthly paid Waymo trips from August 2023 to March 2025.

Date	Monthly paid Waymo trips
Aug 2023	12,617
Sep 2023	38,473
Oct 2023	56,499
Nov 2023	56,905
Dec 2023	72,595
Jan 2024	77,242
Feb 2024	74,233
Mar 2024	83,851
Apr 2024	92,002
May 2024	143,621
Jun 2024	188,847
Jul 2024	250,752
Aug 2024	312,245
Sep 2024	354,124
Oct 2024	453,478
Nov 2024	503,634
Dec 2024	541,378
Jan 2025	550,457
Feb 2025	559,569
Mar 2025	708,180

The self-driving ride hailing service has over 700,000 recorded monthly paid trips as of March 2025, a 55-fold increase from August 2023.

In April 2025, Alphabet reported that Waymo is serving 250,000 paid trips per week in the U.S., a fivefold increase from a year ago.

Waymo’s growth comes amid a broader acceleration in autonomous vehicle (AV) adoption. The AV market is projected to grow from $99.4 billion in 2025 to $285.1 billion by 2029, according to Research and Markets.

Driverless ride-hailing services are gaining traction in urban centers, supported by regulatory progress, increased consumer trust, and advancements in AI and sensor technology.

As AV infrastructure improves and competition heats up from other players like Amazon’s Zoox and Tesla’s FSD, Waymo’s expanding footprint reflects the growing presence of robotaxis in urban mobility.

Waymo is currently available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin. The company plans to continue to expand into other U.S. cities, as well as Tokyo, in the future.

Learn More on the Voronoi App

To learn more about the autonomous vehicle industry, check out this graphic visualizing which companies are permitted to test fully-autonomous cars in California as of July 2024.

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