Where to Stay in Malappuram, State of Kerala

What is Malappuram known for?

Malappuram was the first municipal body in India to put free Wi-Fi across its whole town, the first to hold an International Organization for Standardization certificate, and the first complaint-free municipality in the state. Kottakkunnu is the one landmark recorded. The wider urban area ranks fourth in Kerala after Kochi, Calicut and Thrissur, which puts a modest district town at the centre of something considerably larger.

What are the main landmarks in Malappuram?

Kottakkunnu carries the whole visit. One landmark is recorded for Malappuram, which makes the town's sightseeing a short affair and its appeal administrative rather than monumental. The district is the larger subject.

Malappuram district is administered from here, and a traveller with time will spend more of it moving through Malabar between Calicut and Palakkad than standing in the town.

What is the history of Malappuram?

The municipal record is recent. Dates do the work here. Malappuram carries 1969 as its founding year, while the account of the district describes the first municipality there as formed in 1970, and the two dates sit a year apart in the same short story.

Before those dates the record goes quiet. What the town has instead of a long chronicle is a role, since it became the administrative headquarters of Malappuram district and has run the district's business from that point. Administrative firsts followed.

Malappuram was the first Indian municipal body to put free Wi-Fi across the town, the first to hold an International Organization for Standardization certificate, and the first complaint-free municipality in the state, which is an unusual kind of civic record to be known by. Forty electoral wards divide it. Growth came with the wider urban area, and Kerala places that agglomeration fourth after Kochi, Calicut and Thrissur, so the town's weight is greater than its municipal boundary suggests.

Kottakkunnu is the one named site. The rest of what the record holds for Malabar's district town belongs to the municipal decades that began in 1969.

Where is Malappuram?

Malabar is the region. Malappuram lies roughly fifty kilometres southeast of Calicut and about ninety northwest of Palakkad, which places the district town inland between two larger ones in the tropical band. Kottakkunnu sits within it.

Kerala ranks the urban area around it fourth after Kochi, Calicut and Thrissur, so what looks like a small municipal town on a map carries a good deal more around its edges.

What is the climate of Malappuram?

Heat is the whole of the pattern. Malappuram sits inland in Malabar, in the tropical band, so warmth holds through the year and a day here is shaped by the hour far more than by the month. Cold plays no part.

Anything outdoors, Kottakkunnu included, belongs to the first hours after sunrise, and the shade of the town is what the rest of the day is for.

How do you get to Malappuram?

Calicut and Palakkad are the two approaches. Malappuram lies roughly fifty kilometres southeast of the first and about ninety northwest of the second, so an arrival is a matter of which side of Malabar a traveller starts from. Distance is never the problem here.

The district town is compact once reached, and Kottakkunnu and the municipal offices are both close enough that a single ride covers the whole of a short visit.