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Suburb of Chennai in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India

Nāvalūr

Navalur is a south suburb of Chennai, India and located just 5 km from Sholinganalur junction along Old Mahabalipuram Road.

Nāvalūr
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The place

Navalur is a south suburb of Chennai, India and located just 5 km from Sholinganalur junction along Old Mahabalipuram Road. Navalur is located between Sholinganallur and Kelambakkam and comes under Thiruporur taluk of Chengalpattu district. This area was once a village but with the advent of IT Companies and the rapid development of the Old Mahabalipuram Road, it has become a bustling and most demanded location in Chennai. Proximity to employment opportunities, good asset appreciation, outstanding road Infrastructure, proximity to beaches at ECR and other entertainment venues continues to attract more residents to this suburb.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nāvalūr

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
    Chennai Mathematical Institute

    Chennai Mathematical Institute is a higher education and research institute in Chennai, India. It was founded in 1989 by the SPIC Science Foundation, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in physics, mathematics and computer science.

    2.3 km · Research and education institute in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Odisha University of Technology and Research

    Odisha University of Technology and Research, formerly College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, is a public unitary technical university under the state government of Odisha located in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, India. It was established in 1981, by Government of Orissa, as a constituent college of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology.

    1.6 km · state public university in Khordha, Odisha, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    SIPCOT IT Park

    SIPCOT IT Park is an IT park located in Siruseri in the city of Chennai, along the IT Corridor, Chengalpattu District, India. It was developed on 782.51 acres of land by SIPCOT, the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu, a fully government-owned institution.

    2 km · IT park in Chennai, India; largest in Asia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Marina Mall, Chennai

    The Marina Mall Chennai is a shopping centre located in OMR Egattur in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is the largest shopping mall in the area.

    3.2 km · Shopping Mall located in OMR, Chennai, 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 Nāvalūr

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 18 km · Tirupati (TIR), 114 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 273 km
  • Tirupati → Nāvalūr
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · ₹1,110–1,380
  • Bengaluru → Nāvalūr
    286 km · quickest by road, 5h 17m · ₹2,130–2,670
  • Tiruchirappalli → Nāvalūr
    280 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · ₹1,980–2,470
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nāvalūr

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundto Mamallapuram), your best bet is to negotiate a fare with an auto-rickshaw.
  • Get aroundWesterners have the tendency to overpay rickshaw drivers.

From Wikivoyage: Covelong, 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

    436 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    439 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    451 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    461 km
  5. 05
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    490 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nāvalūr

Nāvalūr is 29 km from Chennai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.