
Mysore to Kannur Cab and Taxi with Driver
Top Rated Bus & Car Rental Services

Top Rated Bus & Car Rental Services

Distance
190 km
From Mysore
Time
About 4.5 to 5 hr
Via Hunsur, Virajpet and Iritty
Starting from
₹ 8000
2 days, 600 km, Dzire

Maruti Swift Dzire
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹7,334 ₹8,807
+ ₹1257 (Taxes & Charges)

Toyota Etios
NORMALAC4 Seats
₹8,498 ₹10,217
+ ₹1467 (Taxes & Charges)

Toyota Innova
LUXURYAC6 Seats
₹10,876 ₹13,086
+ ₹1886 (Taxes & Charges)

Toyota Innova Crysta
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹12,040 ₹14,495
+ ₹2095 (Taxes & Charges)

Toyota Innova Hycross
LUXURYAC7 Seats
₹15,532 ₹18,724
+ ₹2724 (Taxes & Charges)
Start
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190 km

Pickup at your door
Your driver rings the bell at 6:30 am, wherever you are staying in the city. Kannur sits roughly 190 km west, a car ride of about three and a half hours with a couple of pauses, so you reach the Malabar coast before lunch. Visiting relatives in Kerala? Boxes of Mysore pak make the traditional present, and since most Mysore sweet shops pull down their shutters before ten at night, collect them the previous evening. From the ring road, the car swings onto the Hunsur road.

Breakfast at Hunsur
Breakfast happens in Hunsur, an hour along, where idli and filter coffee land on the table almost at once; fifteen minutes is plenty for four. At this town the Kerala road parts company with the Coorg highway, because two state highways, SH 86 and SH 90, start here, and the car takes the branch heading south west. Tobacco fields and timber yards surround the place, and at roughly 800 m it still feels cool at this hour. Gonikoppal lies some 45 km ahead.

Through the coffee town
For a cab heading to the coast, Gonikoppal is a drive through. It is the market town of south Kodagu, ringed by coffee and pepper plantations, and if you would like a packet of estate coffee or peppercorns the driver can halt for five minutes beside a shop. Buses from here run to Kannur and Kozhikode, and Kannur airport is around 70 km off. Virajpet, the last Kodagu town, comes after another 20 km.

Tea and fuel
In Virajpet the car stops for ten minutes, for a cup of tea and a full tank before Kerala. St Anne's church, with its tall Gothic spire from 1792, rises over the rooftops near the road. From this town SH 91 heads down the Makutta ghat towards the coast. In a few past monsoons that Kerala road has been shut after landslips, so for July trips we confirm it the evening before. Iritty is about 35 km away.

Tea on the Kerala side
Once the ghat is behind you, Iritty is the first Kerala town, set on the Bavali river and crossed by an old steel bridge the British put up in 1933. Take fifteen minutes for tea and a restroom. Rubber, pepper and cashew trees cover the slopes around. The international airport at Mattannur is only about 20 km from here, handy if someone needs to catch a flight. Kannur is a further 45 km, roughly an hour.

Drop at your stay
Kannur, once known as Cannanore, is your stop on the Malabar coast, and the cab leaves you at your hotel or your relatives' home. Lunch should be Malabar style, perhaps a plate of Thalassery biryani, ghee rice with pathiri, or kallummakkaya, the mussels this coast is proud of. The town's handloom weavers sell fine cotton cloth. Between October and May, theyyam performances take place across the district. Mattannur airport is roughly 26 km away.
Need a Mysore to Kannur cab for four to seven people for the beaches and the old fort? Kannur (Cannanore) is roughly 190 km away, via Hunsur, Virajpet and the Makkuttam ghat. Ask for a Mysore to Kannur taxi through cab rental in Mysore: Dzire or Etios for four, Innova or Crysta for seven. Our car to Kannur collects you at a hotel on Hunsur Road or a hotel on JLB Road.
Route | One way | Kannur and back | Time by cab |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Kannur via Hunsur, Virajpet and Iritty | About 190 km | About 380 km | About 4.5 to 5 hr with stops |
For around 380 km of driving we bill 2 days, which is 600 km at 300 km each day. AC only. For a two-day trip, the cab is the quickest way to do Mysore to Kannur. Mysore to Kannur one way taxi: one way on request, quoted with the km in writing. The Kannur per km rate includes fuel, driver and AC. Extra: ₹400 each day for our driver, and tolls, parking, state permits and GST at cost.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 2 days, 600 km | 3 days, 900 km | 4 days, 1,200 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
₹12 | ₹8,000 | ₹12,000 | ₹16,000 | |
₹14 | ₹9,200 | ₹13,800 | ₹18,400 | |
₹18 | ₹11,600 | ₹17,400 | ₹23,200 | |
₹20 | ₹12,800 | ₹19,200 | ₹25,600 |
Totals are the km fare plus the day driver allowance. Extra: night driver allowance (₹400 a night), tolls, parking, Kerala permit and 5% GST. Shared by 7, 3 days in the Toyota Innova Crysta is about ₹2,740 a person.
Couple or family of four: Toyota Etios or Swift Dzire. Six or seven people: Innova Crysta. Groups of 7 to 12 should look at the Mysore to Kannur tempo traveller.
More comfort for ten with elders? Have the Mysore to Kannur Force Urbania, or see Force Urbania on rent in Mysore. For a group of twenty, see the Mysore to Kannur mini bus.
Cancellation: no charge more than 72 hours before pickup; see the cancellation policy for the rest.
Kannur is about 190 km from Mysore by road, roughly 380 km there and back. A car runs by Hunsur, Gonikoppal and Virajpet, descends the Makutta ghat to Iritty and reaches the Malabar coast. With short halts, cab time is about 4.5 to 5 hours.
No. Plus the Kerala entry permit for the car. Kannur: tolls, parking, the Kerala permit and GST are extra.
We quote Kannur one way drops on request; the rate is ₹2 a km above a round trip.
Yes. At each place the driver waits, and local km are billed at the same rate.
An Innova Crysta. All our cars are on cab rental in Mysore. To Kannur, six people and their bags fit.
For Kannur, a return after 10 pm brings the night allowance of ₹400 a night.
Usually, but it is the stretch to check. The Virajpet to Kerala road has been closed in past monsoons after slips, for example in July, and Kodagu roads are slow in heavy rain. We check the news the day before monsoon trips. From October to May the ghat is normally clear and the drive runs to time.
We suggest leaving Kannur by early afternoon instead. After dark the Makutta ghat and the Kodagu roads have lorries, unmarked speed breakers and wildlife, and the drive is slower and tiring. Leave after lunch and you reach Mysore by evening, with tea at Virajpet or Gonikoppal.