Chanal may refer to:
- Chanal, Chiapas, a town in Mexico
- El Chanal, an archaeological site in Colima, Mexico
- Hatutu, an island in French Polynesia
- 5671 Chanal, a minor planet
- Chanal, a French surname
- Eugène Chanal (1868–1951), French politician
- Pierre Chanal (1946–2003), French soldier and suspected serial killer
Eugène Chanal was a French politician. He belonged to the Radical Party. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1902 to 1919 and Senator from 1920 to 1940. On 10 July 1940 he voted in favour of granting the Cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France.
Pierre Chanal was a French soldier and suspected serial killer. He was convicted of the rape and kidnapping of a young Hungarian man whom he picked up hitch-hiking in 1988. He received a 10-year sentence for the attack, and was released in 1995 on probation. He was accused of murdering three of eight young men who disappeared in northeastern France between 1980 and 1987. One of his alleged victims was Irishman Trevor O'Keeffe. Chanal committed suicide in prison in 2003 while on trial.
Chanal is a town and one of the 119 Municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. It covers an area of 295.6 km².
El Chanal is an archaeological site located at El Chanal town, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of the Colima City, Mexico. Based on its extension, over 50 hectares, it is probable that it was the largest settlement of the Colima state; it developed on both banks of the “Río Verde” or Río Colima. This archeological zone is maintained by the people of El Chanal. The area may have been inhabited by native groups around 1300 BC, achieving its maximum splendor between 1100 and 1400 CE. There is a Nahuatl connection shown by archaeological materials representing deities such as Tláloc and Ehécatl.
Hatutu is a small island approximately 3 km (2 mi.) northeast of Eiao in the northern Marquesas Islands.
