Hurghada scuba dive sites in Egypt

Stunning reefs of the Red Sea offers plenty to see for beginners, shipwreck hunters, dolphin lovers and underwater photographers.

Hurghada is located on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt and offers many exciting dive sites for beginners and very experienced divers.
Around nearby Giftun Islands, there are good dive sites with shallow and calm waters for those who are just discovering scuba diving and want to get their certification here. For more experienced adventure seekers, Abu Nuhas in the North offer exciting wreck diving – there are 4 shipwrecks from different time periods providing a home to different species of marine life. Before heading to the North, there is an interesting cave passage to explore at Umm Gamar.
For even more experienced divers, there is the Rosalie Moller Wreck laying on the depth of 50 meters. Here divers can expect to find much bigger schools of fish.
Underwater photographers will appreciate the visibility and the beauty to capture around shipwrecks and reefs.
The House Reef is your best chance to dive with dolphins. But there are much more to see around Hurghada like whale sharks, turtles, mantas, moray eels, Napoleon fish, barracudas, jacks, stingrays, tuna, and many other species of the abundant marine life.
Hurghada offers a year-round diving, therefore divers can choose anytime depending if you like more or less crowded sites. On really good days at some places, divers can expect a great visibility up to 60 meters. Although the dive season is year round there are more popular times of the year than others due to marine life seasons and water temperature changes.

The conditions in 61 Hurghada divesites you can expect to be - average depth from 12m to 70m, water temperature 21℃ to 29℃, air temperature 23℃ to 35℃, expected current to 4 knots.

These Hurghada dive sites are reef, nightdive, drift, wall, cave, wreck, snorkeling.

In these divesites you will be able to encounter and see Fishes, Lionfish, Ray, Animals, Corals, Turtle, Barracuda, Dolphin, Wrasse, Octopus, Tuna, Stingray, Grouper, Angelfish, Pufferfish, Molluscs, Eagle Ray, Nudibranch, Jackfish, Starfish (sea star), Shrimp, Clownfish (Anemonefish), Butterflyfish, Eel, Ribbon eel, Parrotfish, Squid, Jellyfish, Triggerfish, Shark, Pipefish, Lobster, Slug, Grass emperor (Sweetlip), Sea cucumber, Manta Ray, Spinner dolphin, Snake, Crab, Grunt, Porcupinefish, Clam, Snapper, Cuttlefish.