Panchanandapur is located in the border area along the river Ganges flowing between Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Temperatures can reach as high as 46 °C during the day in May and June and fall as low as 4 °C overnight in December and January.

Upstream of the Farakka Barrage, Kaliachak II CD block is one of the areas badly affected, over three decades prior to 1999, by the left bank erosion of the Ganges.

Apart from block headquarter, high school, sugar mill it had a regular weekly market where traders used to come by large boats from Rajmahal, Sahebganj, Dhulian.

A survey by the Nagarik Committee has estimated the loss of 750 km2 in the Kaliachak-Manikchak area, in 30 years prior to 1999.