Puducherry
Worth seeing in and around Puducherry
10 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.
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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.
Getting to Puducherry
- Airports
- Chennai (MAA), 123 km · Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 178 km · Tirupati (TIR), 191 km
- Stations
- Pondicherry Airport, 4 km · Pondicherry railway station, 1 km
- Chennai → Puducherry137 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · ₹980–1,230
- Tiruchirappalli → Puducherry175 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · ₹1,310–1,630
- Tirupati → Puducherry194 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · ₹1,480–1,850
- 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 Puducherry
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 Puducherry. 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 Puducherry
Puducherry is 3 km from Gundupālaiyam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Pondicherrycity in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India400 m
- Aurovilleexperimental universal township in South India8.2 km
- Puducherry districtdistrict in Puducherry, India400 m
- Uzhavarkaraicity in Puducherry, India6.6 km
- Sri Aurobindo Ashramspiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry, India600 m
- Kottakuppamhuman settlement in Viluppuram District, Tamil Nadu, India6.5 km