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Madukkarai

Madukkarai is a municipality in Coimbatore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Madukkarai
Madukkarai · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Madukkarai is a municipality in Coimbatore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the headquarters of Madukkarai taluk. It was a panchayat town till 2021, when it was upgraded to a municipality. Spread across an area of 21.47 km2 (8.29 sq mi), it had a population of 30,357 individuals as per the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Madukkarai

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Eachanari Vinayagar Temple

    Eachanari Vinayagar Temple is a temple dedicated to Hindu god Vinayagar, situated in the village Eachanari near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The temple is situated about 12 km from the city of Coimbatore on NH 209.

    3.4 km · historical Vinayaga Temple in the City of Coimbatore Tamilnadu India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rathinam College of Arts and Science

    Rathinam Global University, officially Rathinam Global Deemed to be University is a private deemed university in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 2001 by the Rathinam Arumugam Research and Education Foundation and is located within the Rathinam Techzone Campus on Pollachi Main Road, Eachanari.

    3.7 km · arts & science college in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Karpagam Academy of Higher Education

    Karpagam Academy of Higher Education is a private deemed to be university, located in Coimbatore Tamil Nadu, India. It was established under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956 is approved by Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India.

    3.9 km · university in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dharmalinga Malai

    Dharmalinga Malai is a Shiva temple on top of a hill near Coimbatore, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Lord Dharmalingeswaraswamy, the temple deity, is a Swayambumurthi.

    2.3 km · shiva temple in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Madukkarai

Airports
Coimbatore (CJB), 16 km · Cochin (COK), 104 km · Calicut (CCJ), 112 km
Stations
Madukkarai railway station, 1.7 km
  • Kochi → Madukkarai
    132 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · ₹1,160–1,450
  • Calicut → Madukkarai
    135 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · ₹1,090–1,370
  • Kannur → Madukkarai
    205 km · quickest by road, 5h 20m · ₹1,680–2,100
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Madukkarai

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 Madukkarai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextCoimbatore is surrounded by hill ranges and hence several picnic spots for day trips exist.

From Wikivoyage: Coimbatore, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    52 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    81 km
  3. 03
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    88 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    99 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    156 km

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

Around it

Next door to Madukkarai

Madukkarai is 10 km from Coimbatore, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kovaipudurtown and suburb of Coimbatore city2.6 km
  • EachanariVillage in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India4 km
  • OndipudurVillage in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India2.4 km