Eating and staying in Puducherry
459 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 37 towns and suburbs in Puducherry.
Puducherry accounts for 1% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 23rd-largest of the 36 regions by venue count. Those 459 venues sit across 37 named towns and suburbs, of which 1 carry at least 40 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is very concentrated: Puducherry (292), Ozhukarai (36) and Kalapet (22) hold 76% of everything between them. The remaining 36 places average 4.6 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 70% eating to 30% accommodation, against a national 66/34. That is close to the national balance.
97 venues in Puducherry carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on french (7), ice cream (5) and regional (13).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 98 venues here publish opening hours (21% against 8% nationally), 32 list a website, and 19 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 166 in Puducherry · 36% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 28,244 |
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| Cafés | 88 in Puducherry · 19% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 10,105 |
| Hotels | 72 in Puducherry · 16% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 13,603 |
| Takeaways | 50 in Puducherry · 11% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 10,760 |
| Hostels | 28 in Puducherry · 6% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 4,993 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 27 in Puducherry · 6% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 4,782 |
| Bars | 14 in Puducherry · 3% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 1,747 |
| Serviced apartments | 10 in Puducherry · 2% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 1,502 |
| Pubs | 2 in Puducherry · 0% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 515 |
| Motels | 2 in Puducherry · 0% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 592 |
Towns and suburbs in Puducherry
A further 36 smaller places in Puducherry carry fewer than 40 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.