Thathaneri is a neighbourhood in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu state in the peninsular India.

[1] Located at an altitude of about 162 m above the mean sea level, the geographical coordinates of Thathaneri are 9°56'30.5"N, 78°06'25.6"E (i.e., 9.941800°N, 78.107100°E).

Madurai, Goripalayam, Vilangudi, Sellur and Arappalayam are some of the important neighbourhoods of Thathaneri.

There is an ESI (Employees State Insurance) Hospital that serves Thathaneri and its neighbourhoods.

It also comes under Madurai Lok Sabha constituency for which the parliamentary elections were held in the year 2019 with the winner as S. Venkatesan.