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Village in Kerala, India

Panayal

Panayal is a village in Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala, India.

Panayal
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The place

Panayal is a village in Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala, India. It is situated approximately 6 km inland from the coastal town of Bekal. Panayal is 18.3 km by road from Kasaragod and around 14.9 km from Kanhangad. Sri Mahalingeshwara Aided Upper Primary School and the Sri Mahalingeshwara Shiva temple are located here. Panayal is known for the Theyyam art form performed in the many family shrines in the area. Panayal is the birthplace of the writer P. V. K. Panayal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Panayal

Airports
Mangaluru (IXE), 61 km · Kannur (CNN), 78 km · Calicut (CCJ), 174 km
  • Mangaluru → Panayal
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · ₹450–560
  • Kannur → Panayal
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · ₹510–640
  • Calicut → Panayal
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · ₹1,110–1,390
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No local-transport research exists yet for Panayal

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaws are the only available local transport.

From Wikivoyage: Bekal, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    275 km
  3. 03
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    338 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    346 km
  5. 05
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    352 km

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

Around it

Next door to Panayal

Panayal is 58 km from Mangaluru, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.