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Embalam

Embalam is a panchayat village in Nettapakkam Commune in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.

Embalam
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Embalam is a panchayat village in Nettapakkam Commune in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Embalam

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 134 km · Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 164 km · Tirupati (TIR), 197 km
  • Chennai → Embalam
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · ₹1,160–1,450
  • Tiruchirappalli → Embalam
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · ₹1,220–1,530
  • Tirupati → Embalam
    199 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · ₹1,540–1,930
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No local-transport research exists yet for Embalam

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Embalam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAuto-rickshaws are available from outside the bus station.
  • Get inYou can also take a 30-minute auto rickshaw from the airport to the centre of town.
  • Get inThe rate for taking an auto rickshaw from within the airport complex to the city centre is about ₹150, as of Apr 2013.
  • Get aroundThere is a sparse network of buses and shared auto-rickshaws that can be ridden for ₹5-20 per ride depending on the distance.
  • Get aroundShared-auto-rickshaws can be found at the bus stand, along certain points on Bussy Road and Grand Canal - the most common route is from the bus stand, along Bussy Road, around Grand Canal, and then back up Bussy Road to the bus stand - but be sure to ask if the auto goes to your destination as not all autos will follow this route.

From Wikivoyage: Pondicherry, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    327 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    341 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    363 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    378 km

If you know how people move in Embalam – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Embalam

Embalam is 12 km from Gundupālaiyam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.