Thuvakudi /θʊvɑːkʊd/ is a Municipality in Tiruchirapalli district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The town has a dry weather, making it suitable for dry crops like cotton, chillies and millets.. Thuvakudi comes under the Thiruverumbur (State Assembly Constituency) which elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years and it is a part of the Tiruchirappalli Lok Sabha constituency which elects its Member of Parliament (MP) once in five years.

The town is administered by the Thuvakudi municipality, which covers an area of 14.37 km2 (5.55 sq mi).

The town is a part of the fertile Cauvery delta region, but manufacturing industries and stone quarrying are the major occupations.

The city spread over an area of 14.371 square kilometres (5.549 sq mi) is situated between Tiruchirapalli and Thanjavur.

The hottest months are from March to July during which the city experiences frequent dust storms.

During this period, the days are extremely warm and dry while evenings are rendered cooler due to the cold winds that blow from the south-east.

[17] The functions of the municipality are devolved into six departments: general administration/personnel, Engineering, Revenue, Public Health, city planning and Information Technology (IT).

[15] Law and order in the town in maintained by the Tiruchirapalli division of the Tamil Nadu Police headed by a Deputy Superintendent.

Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has a boiler plant and seamless steel tube processing centre, both of which are located within Thuvakudi municipal limits.

[28] Water supply is provided by the Thuvakudi Municipality from the Kollidam river through two overhead tanks.

In the period 2000–2001, a total of 2.2 million litres of water was supplied every day for households in the town.

[29] As per the municipal data for 2011, about 8.85 metric tonnes of solid waste were collected from Thuvakudi every day by door-to-door collection and subsequently the source segregation and dumping was carried out by the sanitary department of the Thuvakudi municipality.