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Valapattanam

Valapattanam is a census town and a suburb of Kannur city

Valapattanam
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The place

Valapattanam is a census town and a suburb of Kannur city

in the Kannur district, located in the Indian state of Kerala. It is also the smallest panchayat in Kerala with an area of 2.04 km2 (0.79 sq mi). It is located about 7 km (4.3 mi) north of Kannur towards Taliparamba. Valapattanam is known for its communal harmony. On one side is Kalarivathukkal Temple and on the other bank there is "Kakkulangara Mosque".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Valapattanam

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
    Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy Temple

    Kalarivathukkal Bhagavathy Temple, Bhadrakali Shrine located near Valapattanam river. The deity of the shrine is the fierce form of Bhadrakali.

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

    Azhikode is a census town and suburb of Kannur city in Kannur district of Kerala, India. Azhikode town is divided into Azhikode North and Azhikode South.

    3.3 km · Beach in Kerala, 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 Valapattanam

Airports
Kannur (CNN), 22 km · Calicut (CCJ), 110 km · Mangaluru (IXE), 125 km
Stations
Valapattanam railway station, 100 m · Chirakkal railway station, 2.2 km
  • Calicut → Valapattanam
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · ₹650–810
  • Mangaluru → Valapattanam
    122 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · ₹890–1,110
  • Coimbatore → Valapattanam
    204 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · ₹1,770–2,220
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Valapattanam

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 Valapattanam. 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 very cheap at ₹15 per km.

From Wikivoyage: Kannapuram, 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
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    213 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    276 km
  3. 03
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    285 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    290 km
  5. 05
    GokarnaIN

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    312 km

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

Around it

Next door to Valapattanam