Rain and fog on the Munnar road

Rain and fog along NH-85's hill climb between Neriamangalam and Munnar, read at five points, with who actually decides closures.

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Where closures are announced

Check these before you set out — they are the road status; this page is only the weather.

The Idukki District Collector, chairing the District Disaster Management Authority, decides travel bans and advisories on this road — as on 12 May 2025 for Gap Road, 6 July 2026 for NH-85, and 1 August 2026 for the district-wide night ban. NHAI carries out barricading and restoration; Devikulam and Santhanpara police enforce.

Kerala SDMA daily district alertsThe daily yellow, orange and red rain alerts, district by district — the night ban rises and falls with them.

Idukki district administrationCollector advisories and orders; the District Disaster Management Control Room is 1077.

What the weather model says along the road

Over the next two days the model puts the most rain at the Karadippara viewpoint stretch — 17 mm, steady rain.

The lowest visibility it expects in the next 24 hours is dense fog at Munnar town (from 18:00).

These are weather-model estimates for grid cells, not measurements — and weather figures are never a road status.

Point by point

Along NH-85 (Kochi–Dhanushkodi Road), from town to the far end — the order the trip goes.

Munnar town (~1,456 m)

The top of the climb — where the trip starts or ends.

4 mm

Rain, last two days

a little rain

5 mm

Next two days, expected

a little rain

240 m

Lowest visibility, next 24 h

dense fog, from 18:00

Old Munnar, Moolakadai (~1,487 m)

Where a hillside fissure more than 100 m long opened in July 2026; traffic runs one-way past it.

4 mm

Rain, last two days

a little rain

5 mm

Next two days, expected

a little rain

240 m

Lowest visibility, next 24 h

dense fog, from 18:00

Karadippara, Pallivasal (~947 m)

The Pothamedu viewpoint section, on the 13 km between Iruttukanam and Randam Mile that closed after a road collapse in May 2025.

What this page cannot see

Every figure here is a weather model’s estimate for an area, not a rain gauge and not a road camera. A model cannot see a landslide, a rockfall, roadworks or a closure.

Rain and slides do not line up neatly here. The Ettumuri mudslide near Adimali (October 2025) came when no rain was falling and was blamed on highway blasting; the July 2026 fissure above Old Munnar opened during widening works. Slides have cut this road in 2018, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The Pettimudi debris flow of 6 August 2020, which killed 70 people in estate housing near Rajamala, is why Munnar treats heavy-rain warnings seriously.

This page describes the weather along the corridor. It cannot say whether the road is open, and it is never a judgement that driving is safe.

Knowing the road

The Gap Road stretch, east of town

The 41 km Munnar–Bodimettu stretch toward Poopara and Theni is the other chronic failure section — its eighth landslide since reconstruction came in May 2025, and travel bans recur there. Night travel on this stretch was banned again in June 2025 for the same reason. This page reads the Kochi-side climb, but the same caution applies east.

Source: Onmanorama, checked 2 August 2026 (2 months ago).

July 2026: one-way past the CSI church

NH-85 through town was shut from 4 to 9 July after the fissure. Since 4 pm on 9 July, traffic runs one-way: vehicles from Adimali keep left past the CSI church, while vehicles from Mattupetty or Marayoor take the Devikulam route and cross the new bridge. The collector says the risk is not fully gone. As of 2 August 2026 that remains the last confirmed status, through a month of monsoon that has since put the district under a red alert.

Source: Onmanorama, checked 2 August 2026 (2 months ago).

Rain and fog on the Munnar road

About these tools

Where closures are announced

What the weather model says along the road

Point by point

Munnar town (~1,456 m)

Old Munnar, Moolakadai (~1,487 m)

Karadippara, Pallivasal (~947 m)

What this page cannot see

Knowing the road

The Gap Road stretch, east of town

July 2026: one-way past the CSI church

Adimali (~565 m)

Neriamangalam (~61 m)