Where to Dive in May
The best scuba diving destinations with excellent conditions this month
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Tiran Island
EgyptHighlights: Peak season for sharks and pelagics, excellent visibility
Ain El Ghazala
LibyaHighlights: Excellent visibility, abundant fish life, potential for sea turtle sightings
Susah
LibyaHighlights: Excellent visibility, abundant fish, potential for octopus sightings
Nosy Be
MadagascarHighlights: Peak season for visibility and marine life, including whale sharks.
Île Sainte-Marie
MadagascarHighlights: Continued humpback whale activity, calmer seas, good for whale shark sightings
Nosy Mitsio
MadagascarHighlights: Calm seas, good for whale shark sightings and manta rays
Lake Malawi
MalawiHighlights: Peak dry season, exceptional visibility, cichlid spawning
Flic en Flac
MauritiusHighlights: Ideal diving conditions, calm seas, great for macro life.
Grand Bay
MauritiusHighlights: Calm seas, clear water, ideal for exploring shipwrecks.
Trou aux Biches
MauritiusHighlights: Calm seas and clear water, ideal for exploring coral gardens.
Belle Mare
MauritiusHighlights: Ideal diving conditions, calm seas, excellent visibility, abundant reef life.
Le Morne
MauritiusHighlights: Peak diving season. Calm seas, exceptional visibility, great for encountering sharks and dolphins.
Blue Bay Marine Park
MauritiusHighlights: Ideal conditions, calm and clear. Abundant marine life within the park.
N'Gouja Reef
MayotteHighlights: Peak manta ray season, calm waters, abundant marine life
M'Bouzi Island
MayotteHighlights: Excellent visibility, manta rays start to appear, potential for whale sharks
Bazaruto Archipelago
MozambiqueHighlights: Peak manta ray season, excellent visibility, calm seas.
Tofo Beach
MozambiqueHighlights: Peak manta ray season, excellent visibility, calm seas.
Ponta do Ouro
MozambiqueHighlights: Peak season for shark diving (bull, tiger, hammerhead), calm seas.
Quirimbas Archipelago
MozambiqueHighlights: Peak humpback whale season, manta rays
Pemba
MozambiqueHighlights: Excellent visibility, healthy coral, potential for manta rays
Saint-Gilles
RéunionHighlights: Peak humpback whale season, excellent visibility
Etang-Salé
RéunionHighlights: Manta ray season begins, excellent visibility, good for lava formations
Chinhoyi Caves
ZimbabweHighlights: Continued excellent visibility and comfortable water temperatures.
Oran Bay
AlgeriaHighlights: Pleasant water temperatures, excellent visibility, start of seagrass growth.
Jijel
AlgeriaHighlights: Pleasant water temperatures, excellent visibility, abundant small fish.
Agadir
MoroccoHighlights: Excellent visibility, abundant marine life, potential for dolphin sightings
Port Sudan
SudanHighlights: Plankton blooms can reduce visibility but attract pelagics
Sha'ab Rumi
SudanHighlights: Manta rays still present, visibility starts to decrease slightly.
Sanganeb Atoll
SudanHighlights: Manta rays still present, visibility remains good.
Bijagos Archipelago
Guinea-BissauHighlights: Start of plankton blooms, potential for manta rays
Benguela
AngolaHighlights: Sardine run continues, attracting larger predators like tuna and sharks.
Lobito
AngolaHighlights: Stable conditions. Abundant smaller marine life on the reefs.
Namibe
AngolaHighlights: Stable conditions. Abundant invertebrate life on the reefs.
Mahajanga
MadagascarHighlights: Excellent visibility, whale shark season begins
Cape Maclear
MalawiHighlights: Pleasant water temperatures, good visibility for exploring reefs.
Likoma Island
MalawiHighlights: Pleasant water temperatures and good visibility for exploring the island's dive sites.
Praslin
SeychellesHighlights: Manta ray season in full swing, good for schooling fish.
La Digue
SeychellesHighlights: Manta ray season in full swing, good for schooling fish.
Silhouette Island
SeychellesHighlights: Manta ray season, good for observing their feeding aggregations.
Lake Tanganyika
TanzaniaHighlights: Peak dry season, offering some of the best visibility of the year.
Lake Tanganyika
ZambiaHighlights: Continued excellent visibility and cichlid diversity.
Lake Kariba
ZimbabweHighlights: Peak visibility and pleasant water temperatures, ideal for exploring the drowned forests and their inhabitants.
Okavango Delta
BotswanaHighlights: Peak dry season, excellent visibility and wildlife
Swakopmund and Walvis Bay
NamibiaHighlights: Excellent visibility, abundant marine life including seals, dolphins, and various fish species
Protea Banks
South AfricaHighlights: Excellent visibility, good chance of seeing humpback whales
Chagos Archipelago
British Indian Ocean TerritoryHighlights: Slight increase in plankton, potential for manta rays
Peros Banhos
British Indian Ocean TerritoryHighlights: Slight increase in plankton, potential for manta rays and whale sharks