Where to Dive in September

Highlights: Cooling water, excellent visibility returns

Highlights: Continued good visibility and marine life.

Highlights: Autumn clarity

Highlights: Visibility improves, good for macro life

Highlights: Manta ray season begins

Highlights: Manta ray feeding aggregations

Highlights: Conditions are improving significantly as the rainy season ends.

Highlights: Conditions are back to good for wreck exploration.

Highlights: Conditions are excellent again after the monsoon.

Highlights: Water starts to cool, visibility improves. Good for seeing larger fish.

Highlights: End of manta ray season, good visibility returning

Highlights: Continued good visibility, migrating fish may appear

Highlights: Good visibility, migrating fish may be present

Highlights: Rainy season winding down, visibility improving.

Highlights: Rainy season winding down, visibility starts to improve.

Highlights: Visibility starts to increase again, good for reef exploration.

Highlights: Visibility starts to increase again, currents can bring in pelagic species.

Highlights: Visibility starts to increase again, good for exploring the reef.

Highlights: Cooling water, improving visibility

Highlights: Monsoon starts to recede, visibility improves.

Highlights: Post-monsoon, conditions improving rapidly, good for reef exploration.

Highlights: Excellent visibility, good for macro and wide-angle photography.

Highlights: End of the wetter season, visibility improving.

Highlights: Transition to wetter season, visibility may slightly decrease

Highlights: Transition to wetter season, good macro

Highlights: End of rainy season, visibility improving

Highlights: End of summer, visibility improving

Highlights: End of summer, visibility improving

Highlights: Return of manta rays

Highlights: Return of manta rays

Highlights: Plankton blooms can occur

Highlights: Manta rays still present, visibility improves

Highlights: Visibility improves, good for macro life

Highlights: Manta rays still present, visibility improving

Highlights: Visibility improving, chance of seeing migrating whales

Highlights: Water begins to cool, and visibility often improves after plankton blooms subside.

Highlights: Excellent macro opportunities, turtles are common

Highlights: End of the dry season, good chances for macro life

Highlights: Visibility improves, good for exploring reefs and spotting nudibranchs.

Highlights: Visibility improves, excellent for exploring the many dive sites.

Highlights: Visibility improves, good for exploring the diverse topography.

Highlights: Manta ray season begins

Highlights: Manta ray sightings are possible

Highlights: Manta ray season begins

Highlights: Post-rainy season, excellent visibility returning

Highlights: Transition back to dry season, visibility improving

Highlights: Transition back to dry season, visibility improving

Highlights: Transition out of monsoon, visibility improving

Highlights: End of monsoon, visibility improving, still good chance of mantas

Highlights: Transition out of monsoon, visibility improving

Highlights: Transition out of monsoon, visibility improving

Highlights: Transition to dry season, good visibility

Highlights: End of wet season, visibility improving

Highlights: Visibility improving, good chance of seeing schooling fish

Highlights: End of monsoon, visibility improving, potential for manta rays.

Highlights: Visibility improves as monsoon recedes, good for macro photography.

Highlights: End of rainy season, improving visibility

Highlights: End of southwest monsoon, visibility improving

Highlights: Typhoon season can affect conditions, but often good diving between storms

Highlights: Manta rays still present, visibility improving

Highlights: Visibility improving after rainy season

Highlights: Visibility improving, good for exploring underwater landscapes

Highlights: Post-rainy season clarity improving, good for reef exploration.

Highlights: Post-rainy season clarity, good for exploring the 'Dragon Cave'.

Highlights: Post-rainy season clarity, good for exploring the artificial reefs.

Highlights: End of rainy season, visibility starts to improve.

Highlights: End of rainy season, visibility improving.

Highlights: Transition to dry season, visibility improving, good for spotting larger pelagics.

Highlights: Transition to dry season, visibility improving significantly.

Highlights: Transition to dry season, visibility starts to improve.

Highlights: Transition to dry season, visibility starts to improve.

Highlights: Transitioning out of rainy season, visibility improving.

Highlights: Transitioning to the dry season, visibility is improving significantly.

Highlights: Transitioning to the dry season, visibility is improving.

Highlights: Water cooling down, visibility improving, good for observing fish behavior.

Highlights: Water cooling down, visibility improving, good for observing fish behavior.

Highlights: Rainy season tapering off, visibility improving. Possible turtle nesting.