Neighbourhood in Madurai, Tamil Nadu in India

South Gate, Madurai

South Gate is a neighbourhood in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu state in the peninsular India, with the geographical coordinates of 9°54'39.2"N, 78°07'07.3"E and is located at about 161 m above the mean sea level.

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The field note

What is in and around South Gate, Madurai, 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 South Gate, Madurai has

YScheduled flightsTiruchirappalli (TRZ), 115 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

9.911°, 78.119°

How locals move

Getting around South Gate, Madurai the local way

Get aroundThe buses required to get around will all mostly be available in Periyar bus stand and you can also get an auto rickshaw (you should know to negotiate and bargain the cost of the ride) or a cab or rent a car.
Get aroundAuto rickshaws are readily available in the city and they are not equipped with meters.

From Wikivoyage: Madurai, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Info-farmer (CC0), Wikimedia Commons.