Where to Dive in September

The best scuba diving destinations with excellent conditions this month

Excellent Diving

Bonne Terre Mine
United States
12-14°C 30-60m None

Highlights: Ideal for photography

Homestead Crater
United States
32-34°C 10-20m None

Highlights: Fall diving, no change in water temp

24-26°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Excellent visibility, abundant reef fish, start of plankton blooms

Bonito
Brazil
22-25°C 25-35m None

Highlights: Excellent clarity and warm water

12-17°C 10-15m Mild

Highlights: Water starts to cool, but visibility remains good. Good for exploring wrecks.

12-17°C 10-15m Mild

Highlights: Water starts to cool, but visibility remains good. Good for exploring wrecks.

11-14°C 10-15m Mild

Highlights: Continued marine mammal activity

24-26°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Conditions remain favorable for large marine life.

17-19°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Great white sharks are still present, visibility remains good.

La Paz
Mexico
23-26°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Conditions improving after rainy season, manta rays possible

Monterey Bay
United States
13-15°C 10-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility may start to decrease slightly, but still great diving.

Channel Islands
United States
14-16°C 10-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility may start to decrease, but marine life is still abundant.

North Carolina Wrecks
United States
22-26°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Transition to cooler, clearer water

Lake Superior
United States
12-16°C 20-25m Mild

Highlights: Clearer water, fall colors starting

Hawaii
United States
27-29°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Manta ray season begins again

Catalina Island
United States
18-20°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Late summer, still excellent conditions

Flower Garden Banks
United States
27-30°C 20-30m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Manta ray season winding down

1-3°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Autumn colors, decreasing daylight

Saint-Pierre's Coastal Waters
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
8-11°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Autumn diving, still good visibility and cooler water, potential for seabird migrations.

27-30°C 20-30m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility improving, potential for manta rays

27-30°C 20-30m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility improving, potential for manta rays

28-30°C 20-30m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility starts to improve as rainy season ends.

Cocos Island
Costa Rica
28-30°C 15-25m Moderate Rainy

Highlights: End of rainy season, visibility improving, manta rays present

Roatán
Honduras
26-29°C 20-25m Mild

Highlights: Transition out of rainy season, visibility improving

Utila
Honduras
26-29°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Transition out of rainy season, visibility improving

Guanaja
Honduras
27-29°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Post-rainy season clarity, vibrant reefs

Cayos Cochinos
Honduras
27-29°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Post-rainy season clarity, healthy reefs

28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: End of rainy season, visibility improving

27-29°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as the dry season begins.

Sandy Ground
Anguilla
27-29°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as the dry season begins.

Shoal Bay
Anguilla
27-29°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as the dry season begins.

Cayo Largo
Cuba
28-30°C 20-30m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season tapering off, visibility improving

Westpunt
Curaçao
28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Reef recovery after summer

Willemstad
Curaçao
28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Reef health improving

East Point
Curaçao
27-30°C 15-20m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility starts to improve, good for general reef exploration.

Porto Marie
Curaçao
27-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season begins, visibility can be variable but generally good.

La Romana
Dominican Republic
28-30°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as rainy season ends, good for exploring wrecks.

Samaná Peninsula
Dominican Republic
28-30°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as rainy season ends, good for exploring diverse marine life.

Grand Anse
Grenada
28-30°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves, start of manta ray season.

Moliniere Point
Grenada
28-30°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves, manta rays may be seen passing through.

Carriacou
Grenada
28-30°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves, start of manta ray season.

28-30°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improving significantly, start of manta ray season.

27-29°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves significantly as rainy season ends.

27-29°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility returns to good levels after the rainy season.

Ile a Vache
Haiti
27-29°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves significantly as the rainy season concludes.

28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season ending, visibility improving.

28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season tapers off, visibility improves.

Negril
Jamaica
28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season ends, visibility improves.

Ocho Rios
Jamaica
27-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season winding down, visibility improving.

28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility starts to improve as rainy season tapers off.

Rendezvous Bay
Montserrat
28-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility starts to improve as rainy season ends.

Fajardo
Puerto Rico
27-29°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility improves, smaller fish schooling

Culebra
Puerto Rico
27-29°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility starts to improve, juvenile fish

Vieques
Puerto Rico
27-29°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility improves, juvenile fish

Colombier Bay
Saint Barthélemy
27-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season winding down, visibility improving.

Pain de Sucre
Saint Barthélemy
27-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season winding down, visibility improving.

Sandy Point, St. Kitts
Saint Kitts and Nevis
27-29°C 20-30m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season winding down, visibility improving.

Charlestown, Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
27-29°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season ending, visibility starts to improve.

Oualie Beach, Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
27-29°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season ending, visibility improving.

Union Island
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
28-30°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Visibility returns to good levels, start of manta ray season.

Dawn Beach
Sint Maarten
27-30°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season ends. Good time for macro photography.

Little Bay
Sint Maarten
27-30°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season subsides. Good for observing reef structures.

Speyside, Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
27-30°C 15-20m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves as the rainy season ends. Good time to see schooling fish.

Store Bay, Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
27-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility improving, good chance of seeing schooling fish.

Mt. Irvine, Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
27-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility improving, good chance of seeing schooling fish.

Grace Bay
Turks and Caicos Islands
27-30°C 15-25m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Visibility improving as the rainy season ends, good chance of seeing reef sharks.

Buck Island, St. Croix
U.S. Virgin Islands
27-29°C 15-20m Mild Rainy

Highlights: End of rainy season, visibility improving, good for macro life.

27-29°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Start of dry season, excellent conditions return

20-22°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Spring, visibility improves, start of plankton blooms

Ilha Grande
Brazil
21-23°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Spring, visibility improves, start of plankton blooms

Recife
Brazil
26-29°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Good visibility, potential for manta rays

Búzios
Brazil
22-25°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Spring, good visibility and marine life

Maragogi
Brazil
26-29°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Manta ray season continues. Good chance to see these majestic creatures.

28-30°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Excellent visibility, good chance of seeing larger pelagics.

Rosario Islands
Colombia
28-30°C 20-30m Mild

Highlights: Excellent visibility, good for spotting schools of fish.

Malpelo Island
Colombia
26-28°C 20-30m Moderate

Highlights: Return of hammerhead shark season, large aggregations possible.

Taganga
Colombia
27-29°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Consistent good diving, ideal for macro photography.

19-21°C 10-15m Moderate

Highlights: Still good for whale shark sightings, sea lion pups are active.

27-29°C 15-20m Mild Rainy

Highlights: Rainy season ending, visibility improving

27-30°C 12-22m Mild

Highlights: Waters clearing up after rainy season

Isla Margarita
Venezuela
27-30°C 12-22m Mild

Highlights: Waters clearing up after rainy season

Los Frailes
Venezuela
27-30°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Waters clearing, good for spotting pelagics

Cayo Sal
Venezuela
27-30°C 15-25m Mild

Highlights: Visibility improves significantly, good for pelagic sightings.

Good Diving

Hudson Bay, Manitoba
Canada
8°C 10-15m
Manitoulin Island, Ontario
Canada
15°C 10-15m
Cozumel
Mexico
30°C 15-25m
Cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico
29°C 10-20m
Sea of Cortez
Mexico
30°C 15-25m
Riviera Maya
Mexico
30°C 15-25m
Cabo Pulmo
Mexico
30°C 15-25m
Banco Chinchorro
Mexico
30°C 15-25m
Veracruz Reef System
Mexico
29°C 10-15m
Florida Keys
United States
30°C 10-20m
Nuuk Fjord
Greenland
4°C 10-20m
Disko Bay
Greenland
4°C 10-20m
East Greenland
Greenland
3°C 15-25m
Ilulissat Icefjord
Greenland
3°C 15-25m
Scoresby Sund
Greenland
3°C 10-15m
Uummannaq Fjord
Greenland
3°C 10-15m
Turneffe Atoll
Belize
30°C 15-25m
Glovers Reef Atoll
Belize
30°C 15-25m
South Water Caye
Belize
30°C 15-25m
Placencia
Belize
30°C 15-20m
Caño Island
Costa Rica
30°C 10-20m
Catalina Islands
Costa Rica
29°C 10-15m
Gulf of Papagayo
Costa Rica
30°C 10-20m
Manuel Antonio
Costa Rica
30°C 8-12m
Drake Bay
Costa Rica
30°C 8-15m
Los Cobanos
El Salvador
29°C 8-15m
Pico Bonito National Park
Honduras
28°C 12-18m
Corn Islands
Nicaragua
30°C 15-25m
Solentiname Islands
Nicaragua
30°C 10-20m
Bocas Del Toro
Panama
30°C 10-20m
Gulf of Chiriqui
Panama
30°C 10-20m
Portobelo
Panama
31°C 8-15m
Isla Grande
Panama
31°C 8-15m
Scrub Island
Anguilla
30°C 15-25m
Prickly Pear Cays
Anguilla
30°C 10-20m
Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
29°C 15-20m
South Coast of Aruba
Aruba
30°C 10-20m
East Coast of Aruba
Aruba
30°C 10-20m
West Coast of Aruba
Aruba
30°C 15-25m
Northern Aruba
Aruba
30°C 10-20m
Grand Bahama Island
Bahamas
30°C 10-20m
Nassau
Bahamas
30°C 10-20m
Andros Island
Bahamas
29°C 15-25m
Bimini
Bahamas
29°C 15-25m
Exuma Cays
Bahamas
29°C 15-25m
Long Island
Bahamas
30°C 15-25m
Eleuthera
Bahamas
30°C 15-25m
San Salvador
Bahamas
30°C 15-20m
Cat Island
Bahamas
30°C 15-20m
Carlisle Bay
Barbados
30°C 15-20m
The West Coast
Barbados
30°C 15-20m
The South Coast
Barbados
30°C 10-15m
Folkestone Marine Park
Barbados
30°C 15-20m
South Shore
Bermuda
29°C 15-25m
Western Blue Cut
Bermuda
29°C 15-25m
Eastern Blue Hole
Bermuda
29°C 15-25m
Castle Harbour
Bermuda
29°C 10-20m
Tortola and Surrounding Waters
British Virgin Islands
30°C 15-25m
Virgin Gorda and Neighboring Sites
British Virgin Islands
30°C 10-15m
Cooper Island
British Virgin Islands
30°C 10-15m
Anegada
British Virgin Islands
30°C 10-15m
Salt Island
British Virgin Islands
30°C 15-25m
Grand Cayman
Cayman Islands
30°C 15-25m
Cayman Brac
Cayman Islands
30°C 15-25m
Isla de la Juventud
Cuba
30°C 15-25m
Bay of Pigs
Cuba
29°C 15-25m
Guardalavaca
Cuba
29°C 15-25m
Cayo Coco
Cuba
30°C 15-25m
Cayo Santa Maria
Cuba
30°C 15-25m
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba
30°C 10-20m
Marie Pampoen
Curaçao
30°C 10-15m
Playa Kalki
Curaçao
30°C 10-20m
Mushroom Forest
Curaçao
30°C 10-20m
Scotts Head Pinnacle
Dominica
30°C 15-25m
Soufriere Scotts Head Marine Reserve
Dominica
30°C 15-25m
Champagne Reef
Dominica
30°C 10-20m
The Cabrits Dive Centre Zone
Dominica
30°C 15-25m
Pointe Michel
Dominica
30°C 10-20m
Toucari Bay
Dominica
30°C 15-25m
Punta Cana and Bavaro
Dominican Republic
30°C 10-20m
Bayahibe
Dominican Republic
30°C 10-20m
Sosua
Dominican Republic
30°C 10-15m
Monte Cristi
Dominican Republic
30°C 10-15m
Flamingo Bay
Grenada
30°C 10-20m
La Gonave Island
Haiti
29°C 10-20m
Port Antonio
Jamaica
30°C 15-20m
Runaway Bay
Jamaica
30°C 15-25m
Southeast Montserrat
Montserrat
30°C 10-20m
La Parguera
Puerto Rico
30°C 15-20m
Isla de Mona
Puerto Rico
30°C 15-20m
Desecheo Island
Puerto Rico
30°C 15-20m
Rincón
Puerto Rico
30°C 15-25m
Gustavia Harbor
Saint Barthélemy
30°C 10-20m
Lorient
Saint Barthélemy
30°C 15-25m
Ile Fourchue
Saint Barthélemy
30°C 15-25m
Anse des Cayes
Saint Barthélemy
30°C 10-20m
Nisbet Plantation Beach, Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
30°C 15-25m
Soufriere Marine Management Area (SMMA)
Saint Lucia
30°C 10-20m
Anse Cochon
Saint Lucia
30°C 10-20m
Marigot Bay
Saint Lucia
30°C 10-15m
Rodney Bay
Saint Lucia
30°C 10-15m
Sint Maarten Marine Park
Saint Martin
30°C 10-15m
Man of War Shoal Marine Park
Saint Martin
30°C 15-25m
French Marine Reserves
Saint Martin
30°C 15-25m
Tobago Cays
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
30°C 10-15m
Canouan
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
30°C 10-15m
Mayreau
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
30°C 10-15m
Kingstown and the West Coast
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
30°C 15-25m
St. Vincent's East Coast
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
30°C 10-20m
Man of War Shoal Marine Park
Sint Maarten
30°C 10-20m
Simpson Bay
Sint Maarten
30°C 10-20m
Maho Bay
Sint Maarten
30°C 10-15m
Crown Point, Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
30°C 10-15m
Charlotteville, Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
30°C 10-20m
Southwest Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
30°C 10-15m
West Caicos
Turks and Caicos Islands
30°C 15-25m
Northwest Point
Turks and Caicos Islands
30°C 15-25m
Salt Cay
Turks and Caicos Islands
30°C 15-20m
Pine Cay
Turks and Caicos Islands
30°C 15-20m
St. Thomas
U.S. Virgin Islands
30°C 15-25m
St. John
U.S. Virgin Islands
30°C 15-25m
St. Croix
U.S. Virgin Islands
30°C 15-25m
Carloz Paz
Argentina
19°C 10-15m
Laje de Santos Marine State Park
Brazil
23°C 10-20m
Angra dos Reis
Brazil
25°C 10-20m
Easter Island
Chile
21°C 15-20m
Gorgona Island
Colombia
29°C 10-15m
Capurganá and Sapzurro
Colombia
30°C 10-15m
Isla Fuerte
Colombia
30°C 10-15m
Machalilla National Park
Ecuador
22°C 10-15m
San Cristobal Island
Ecuador
22°C 15-20m
Santa Cruz Island
Ecuador
22°C 10-15m
Ayangue
Ecuador
23°C 10-15m
Punta Sal
Peru
24°C 10-18m
Suriname River
Suriname
30°C 5-10m
Atlantic Coast
Suriname
30°C 10-20m
Mochima National Park
Venezuela
28°C 10-15m