Where to Dive in October
The best scuba diving destinations with excellent conditions this month
Excellent Diving
Socorro Island
MexicoHighlights: Visibility improves, manta rays are frequently seen.
Lighthouse Reef Atoll
BelizeHighlights: Manta ray season begins, excellent visibility for the Blue Hole.
Coiba National Park
PanamaHighlights: Start of dry season, excellent conditions for whale sharks
Northwest Montserrat
MontserratHighlights: Excellent conditions return, start of turtle nesting season.
Rendezvous Bay
MontserratHighlights: Excellent conditions return, good for spotting turtles.
Grace Bay
Turks and Caicos IslandsHighlights: Excellent visibility, start of the dry season.
Fernando de Noronha
BrazilHighlights: Peak dry season, ideal for diving, whale shark sightings possible
Highlights: Plankton blooms attract larger pelagics, good for whale shark sightings
Los Frailes
VenezuelaHighlights: Excellent visibility returns, ideal for photography
Tobermory, Ontario
CanadaHighlights: Autumn diving. Water is cooler but visibility can be excellent. Fewer crowds.
Brockville, Ontario
CanadaHighlights: Autumn diving. Water is cooler but visibility can be excellent. Fewer crowds.
Highlights: Conditions returning to excellent, clear water.
Guadalupe Island
MexicoHighlights: Conditions are favorable for observing various shark species.
Banco Chinchorro
MexicoHighlights: Start of manta ray season, excellent visibility
Florida Keys
United StatesHighlights: Visibility improves, water starts to cool slightly.
Monterey Bay
United StatesHighlights: Autumn colors in the kelp, good for observing octopus.
Channel Islands
United StatesHighlights: Autumn colors in the kelp, good for observing octopus.
North Carolina Wrecks
United StatesHighlights: Excellent visibility, fall colors underwater
Lake Superior
United StatesHighlights: Excellent visibility, dramatic shipwreck exploration
Turneffe Atoll
BelizeHighlights: Manta ray season begins, excellent visibility.
Glovers Reef Atoll
BelizeHighlights: Manta ray season begins, good visibility for reef exploration.
Cocos Island
Costa RicaHighlights: Hammerhead sharks begin to return in numbers
Caño Island
Costa RicaHighlights: Transition to dry season, visibility improving, manta rays still present
Catalina Islands
Costa RicaHighlights: Transition to dry season, visibility improving, manta rays still present
Gulf of Papagayo
Costa RicaHighlights: Visibility improves significantly, start of manta ray season.
Drake Bay
Costa RicaHighlights: Visibility improves significantly, good for encountering manta rays and sharks.
Pico Bonito National Park
HondurasHighlights: Good for spotting octopuses and eels
Corn Islands
NicaraguaHighlights: Excellent visibility, start of manta ray season.
Solentiname Islands
NicaraguaHighlights: Good visibility returning, pleasant temperatures
Gulf of Chiriqui
PanamaHighlights: Excellent visibility returning, start of manta ray season
San Blas Islands
PanamaHighlights: Excellent visibility, good for macro photography.
Sandy Ground
AnguillaHighlights: Good visibility for exploring the diverse marine life.
Shoal Bay
AnguillaHighlights: Good conditions for exploring the shallow reef systems.
Scrub Island
AnguillaHighlights: Visibility improves, good chance of seeing reef sharks
Prickly Pear Cays
AnguillaHighlights: Visibility improves, good for spotting reef fish
Barbuda
Antigua and BarbudaHighlights: Visibility improving, start of calmer seas
South Coast of Aruba
ArubaHighlights: Visibility starts to improve as rainy season tapers. Good for spotting larger pelagics.
East Coast of Aruba
ArubaHighlights: Visibility improves as rainy season tapers. Currents can be good for drift dives.
West Coast of Aruba
ArubaHighlights: Visibility improves as rainy season tapers. Good for exploring shallow reefs.
The West Coast
BarbadosHighlights: Transitioning out of rainy season, good visibility returns.
The South Coast
BarbadosHighlights: Transitioning out of rainy season, good visibility.
Folkestone Marine Park
BarbadosHighlights: Transitioning out of rainy season, good visibility returns.
Western Blue Cut
BermudaHighlights: Visibility improves, good for exploring the cut's walls
Eastern Blue Hole
BermudaCastle Harbour
BermudaTortola and Surrounding Waters
British Virgin IslandsVirgin Gorda and Neighboring Sites
British Virgin IslandsHighlights: Visibility improves, start of manta ray season.
Cooper Island
British Virgin IslandsHighlights: Visibility improves, start of manta ray season.
Anegada
British Virgin IslandsHighlights: Visibility improves, good for exploring wrecks.
Salt Island
British Virgin IslandsHighlights: Post-rainy season, excellent visibility. Manta ray season begins.
Grand Cayman
Cayman IslandsHighlights: Conditions improving significantly. Start of the dry season, visibility returning.
Cayman Brac
Cayman IslandsHighlights: Conditions improve significantly as the dry season begins. Visibility returns.
East Point
CuraçaoHighlights: End of the rainy season, visibility improving. Manta ray season begins.
Porto Marie
CuraçaoHighlights: End of rainy season, visibility improving. Good for spotting octopuses and lobsters.
Soufriere Scotts Head Marine Reserve
DominicaHighlights: Manta ray sightings become more frequent
The Cabrits Dive Centre Zone
DominicaHighlights: Visibility improving, calmer seas returning, good for macro life.
Pointe Michel
DominicaHighlights: Visibility improving, good for spotting smaller reef inhabitants.
Toucari Bay
DominicaHighlights: Visibility improving, good for spotting nudibranchs and other invertebrates.
Punta Cana and Bavaro
Dominican RepublicHighlights: Sargassum seaweed usually recedes
La Romana
Dominican RepublicHighlights: Excellent visibility, good for seeing larger marine life.
Monte Cristi
Dominican RepublicHighlights: Visibility is good, ideal for exploring the diverse marine life.
Samaná Peninsula
Dominican RepublicHighlights: Excellent visibility, good for spotting larger marine life and exploring underwater caves.
Grand Anse
GrenadaHighlights: Manta ray season in full swing, excellent opportunities for sightings.
Moliniere Point
GrenadaHighlights: Good chance of encountering manta rays near the sculptures.
Carriacou
GrenadaHighlights: Manta ray season in full swing, excellent opportunities for sightings.
Grenada's Atlantic Side
GrenadaHighlights: Peak manta ray season, excellent visibility.
Cote des Arcadins
HaitiHighlights: Excellent conditions, good chance to see larger pelagics.
Cap-Haitien and Labadee
HaitiHighlights: Excellent conditions for exploring the diverse coral gardens.
Ile a Vache
HaitiHighlights: Excellent conditions for exploring the diverse marine ecosystems.
Port Salut and Les Cayes
HaitiHighlights: Good conditions return, turtle nesting season.
Montego Bay Marine Park
JamaicaHighlights: Conditions are good for spotting turtles.
Ocho Rios
JamaicaHighlights: Good visibility returning, start of the drier season.
Port Antonio
JamaicaHighlights: Drier season begins, good visibility and calmer seas.
Runaway Bay
JamaicaHighlights: Drier season begins, excellent visibility returns.
Southeast Montserrat
MontserratHighlights: Good conditions return, potential for seeing schooling fish.
La Parguera
Puerto RicoHighlights: Post-rainy season, excellent visibility returns, vibrant coral.
Isla de Mona
Puerto RicoHighlights: Post-rainy season, excellent visibility returns, vibrant coral.
Desecheo Island
Puerto RicoHighlights: Post-rainy season, excellent visibility returns, vibrant coral.
Lorient
Saint BarthélemyHighlights: Good visibility, potential for seeing sea turtles
Colombier Bay
Saint BarthélemyHighlights: Good visibility returning, pleasant water temperatures.
Pain de Sucre
Saint BarthélemyHighlights: Good visibility returning, pleasant water temperatures.
Anse des Cayes
Saint BarthélemyHighlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season ends. Good time for exploring wrecks.
Sandy Point, St. Kitts
Saint Kitts and NevisHighlights: Good visibility, transitioning to drier weather.
Charlestown, Nevis
Saint Kitts and NevisHighlights: Transition to drier weather, good reef diving.
Oualie Beach, Nevis
Saint Kitts and NevisHighlights: Transition to drier weather, good for shore dives.
Nisbet Plantation Beach, Nevis
Saint Kitts and NevisHighlights: Conditions are improving, good visibility returning
Soufriere Marine Management Area (SMMA)
Saint LuciaHighlights: Visibility improves significantly, good for photography
Anse Cochon
Saint LuciaHighlights: Visibility improves, good for macro photography
Marigot Bay
Saint LuciaHighlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season ends, good for spotting larger pelagics.
Rodney Bay
Saint LuciaHighlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season ends, good for spotting larger pelagics.
Sint Maarten Marine Park
Saint MartinHighlights: Visibility improves significantly as the rainy season ends. Good for spotting larger pelagics.
Man of War Shoal Marine Park
Saint MartinHighlights: Visibility significantly improves, good time for exploring reefs.
French Marine Reserves
Saint MartinHighlights: Visibility significantly improves, excellent for exploring the diverse reef systems.
Tobago Cays
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesHighlights: Visibility improves as rainy season ends, good for general reef diving.
Canouan
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesHighlights: Visibility improves as rainy season ends, good reef conditions.
Mayreau
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesHighlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season concludes, good for reef exploration.
Union Island
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesHighlights: Manta ray season in full swing.
Man of War Shoal Marine Park
Sint MaartenHighlights: Visibility improves significantly, start of turtle nesting season.
Simpson Bay
Sint MaartenHighlights: Good visibility for exploring the bay's diverse underwater landscape.
Maho Bay
Sint MaartenHighlights: Good visibility for observing the diverse reef inhabitants.
Dawn Beach
Sint MaartenHighlights: Pleasant water temperatures and good visibility. Expect to see a variety of reef inhabitants.
Little Bay
Sint MaartenHighlights: Pleasant diving conditions. Reef is teeming with life.
Speyside, Tobago
Trinidad and TobagoHighlights: Pleasant diving conditions. Reefs are vibrant and full of life.
Crown Point, Tobago
Trinidad and TobagoHighlights: Visibility improves significantly as the rainy season ends.
Charlotteville, Tobago
Trinidad and TobagoHighlights: Visibility improves significantly, good for spotting schooling fish.
Southwest Tobago
Trinidad and TobagoHighlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season concludes.
Store Bay, Tobago
Trinidad and TobagoHighlights: Good visibility, start of the dry season.
Mt. Irvine, Tobago
Trinidad and TobagoHighlights: Good visibility, start of the dry season.
West Caicos
Turks and Caicos IslandsHighlights: Visibility improves, good for pelagic sightings
Northwest Point
Turks and Caicos IslandsHighlights: Visibility improves, currents can pick up
Salt Cay
Turks and Caicos IslandsHighlights: Good reef diving, start of turtle nesting season
French Cay
Turks and Caicos IslandsHighlights: Good reef diving, start of turtle nesting season
Pine Cay
Turks and Caicos IslandsHighlights: Good reef diving, start of turtle nesting season
St. Thomas
U.S. Virgin IslandsHighlights: Excellent visibility returns, start of the dry season
St. John
U.S. Virgin IslandsHighlights: Visibility significantly improves, start of the dry season
St. Croix
U.S. Virgin IslandsHighlights: Excellent visibility returns, start of the dry season
Buck Island, St. Croix
U.S. Virgin IslandsHighlights: Excellent visibility returns, warmer waters, good for exploring wrecks.
San Andres and Providencia
ColombiaHighlights: Manta ray season begins, often seen feeding.
Rosario Islands
ColombiaHighlights: Calm seas, ideal for exploring the extensive coral reefs.
Malpelo Island
ColombiaHighlights: Peak hammerhead shark season, excellent diving conditions.
Capurganá and Sapzurro
ColombiaHighlights: Transition to dry season, good visibility
Galápagos Islands
EcuadorHighlights: Transition back to warmer waters, visibility improves.