Village in Kerala, India

Panayal

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

Every way there

Mangaluru → Panayal
59 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · ₹450–560
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Kannur → Panayal
70 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · ₹510–640
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Calicut → Panayal
152 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · ₹1,110–1,390
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The field note

What is in and around Panayal, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Panayal has

YScheduled flightsMangaluru (IXE), 61 km
YMetro and city busesBMTC buses, timetables compiled in-app
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Kāsaragod, 11 km.

12.436°, 75.069°

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.

How locals move

Getting around Panayal the local way

Get aroundAutorickshaws are the only available local transport.

From Wikivoyage: Bekal, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-06.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Vijayanrajapuram (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.