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Village in Kerala, India

Punnayūr

Punnayur is a Panchayath in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India.This village has coastal area, Mannalamkunnu Beach is one of tourist destination in Trissur District.

The place

Punnayur is a Panchayath in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India.This village has coastal area, Mannalamkunnu Beach is one of tourist destination in Trissur District. The office, co-op bank and Punnayur Village are located in Edakkara. Edakkara is one of the small area of Punnnayur Panchayth, Edakkazhiyur, Agalad, Kuzhingara, Aviyur Mannalamkunnu and Punnayur are the other places. Punnayur is located 35 km from Thrissur railway station, 12 km from Guruvayoor railway station, and 90 km from Kochi International Airport. Edakkara is very close to NH 17,.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Punnayūr

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
    Manikandeswaram Uma Maheswara temple

    Manikandeswaram Uma Maheswara temple or Manikandeswaram Siva Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva and Parvati, in Vadakkekad, Thrissur district, Kerala, India. Believed to be more than two thousand years old, this is one of the oldest temples in India.

    800 m · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mannalamkunnu

    Mannalamkunnu is a beach located in Thrissur district, in the western coastal area of the state of Kerala, India. It is located in Punnayur Panchayath.

    3.5 km · beach (Thrissur district, 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 Punnayūr

Airports
Calicut (CCJ), 54 km · Cochin (COK), 71 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 122 km
  • Calicut → Punnayūr
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · ₹630–790
  • Kochi → Punnayūr
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · ₹600–750
  • Coimbatore → Punnayūr
    113 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · ₹940–1,170
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Punnayūr

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA large helipad at Guruvayur, enables helicopter transportation from Cochin and Kozhikode airport.
  • Get aroundTaxis and autorickshaws are available at nominal rates.

From Wikivoyage: Guruvayoor, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    76 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    138 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    147 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    147 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    181 km

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

Around it

Next door to Punnayūr

Punnayūr is 28 km from Thrissur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.