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

Embalam is a panchayat village in Nettapakkam Commune in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Embalam
- Airports
- Chennai (MAA), 134 km · Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 164 km · Tirupati (TIR), 197 km
- Chennai → Embalam149 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · ₹1,160–1,450
- Tiruchirappalli → Embalam161 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · ₹1,220–1,530
- Tirupati → Embalam199 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · ₹1,540–1,930
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Next door to Embalam
Embalam is 12 km from Gundupālaiyam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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