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Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu, India

Padanthalumoodu

Padanthalumoodu is located in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu.

The place

Padanthalumoodu is located in Kanyakumari District of Tamil Nadu. The area of Padanthalumoodu lies in the taluk of Vilavancode and has a Sub Post Office. Padanthalumoodu officially lies in the postal division of Kanniyakumari, postal region of Madurai and postal circle of Tamil Nadu. It is located at 5.5 km from Marthandam and about 750 km south-southwest of capital city Chennai.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Padanthalumoodu

2 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
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Kuzhithurai

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kuzhithura is a diocese located in Tamil Nadu. It was erected on 22 December 2014 by Pope Francis with territory taken from the Diocese of Kottar.

    1.6 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parassala Mahadeva Temple

    Parassala Sree Mahadeva temple is one of the foremost centres of worship in south Kerala and the temple is situated at the tiny village of Parassala adjoining the Kerala - Tamil Nadu boundary. Here the deity, Lord Siva is facing the west, which is considered as a rare phenomenon, and devotees even from far off places attend the worship.

    3.5 km · Hindu Temple in Parassala, Kerala · 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 Padanthalumoodu

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 34 km · Cochin (COK), 220 km
Stations
Parassala railway station, 2.4 km
  • Kochi → Padanthalumoodu
    206 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · ₹1,550–1,940
  • Coimbatore → Padanthalumoodu
    299 km · quickest by road, 8h 18m · ₹2,970–3,710
  • Tiruchirappalli → Padanthalumoodu
    323 km · quickest by road, 7h 10m · ₹2,590–3,230
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Padanthalumoodu

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{go | name | url | address 8.410410 | long from Kovalam | phone | hours | wikipedia Neyyattinkarastation1.jpg | wikidata=Q15262230 | lastedit=2026-05-16 | content By bus By taxi By auto-rickshaw=== In an auto-rickshaw ₹150-170 (per head) is a fair price.
  • Get inAdvice being if they are trying to rip you off go to leave for another rickshaw and they will often back down and offer you a fair price; if not, get in a different rickshaw.
  • Get aroundThe rate should be around ₹15 per kilometre on auto rickshaw but some drivers may try to overcharge up to ₹100 for 1 km.

From Wikivoyage: Kovalam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    124 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    134 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    192 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    207 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    210 km

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

Around it

Next door to Padanthalumoodu

Padanthalumoodu is 31 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kuzhithuratown in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India2.3 km
  • KaliyakkavilaiNeighbourhood in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India1.5 km
  • KilkulamVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.2 km
  • ManjalumooduNeighbourhood in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India1.8 km
  • Parasalavillage in Rajasthan, India3.5 km
  • KappukadVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India2.3 km