The present study was carried out to understand the different personality traits of adolescents in 2012-13. The sample comprised 256 adolescents (128 boys and 128 girls) in the age range of 13-19 years from urban and rural areas of Dharwad taluk of Karnataka. The background information of the adolescents was collected with the help of Self-structured questionnaire. Big Five Inventory was used to understand the personality traits of adolescents. The results revealed that urban and rural adolescents differed significantly in terms of agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability, while they were similar in two personality traits i.e., extroversion and openness to experience. Further, results indicated that early and late adolescents differed significantly in terms of emotional stability. Boys were better in extroversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability traits whereas girls were better in agreeableness and openness to experience traits