Arco de Formentera

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What you'll see (20)

Mediterranean Red Sea StarEchinaster sepositusseen 13× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 12× near here

Painted ComberSerranus scribaseen 11× near here

Mauve StingerPelagia noctilucaseen 11× near here

Cratena SlugCratena peregrinaseen 10× near here

Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgarisseen 10× near here

Yellowmouth BarracudaSphyraena viridensisseen 9× near here

Salema PorgySarpa salpaseen 9× near here

White Sea BreamDiplodus sargusseen 8× near here

Mediterranean Rainbow WrasseCoris julisseen 7× near here

Saddled SeabreamOblada melanurusseen 7× near here

European Common CuttlefishSepia officinalisseen 6× near here

Regal Sea GoddessFelimare pictaseen 6× near here

Fried Egg JellyCotylorhiza tuberculataseen 5× near here

Marbled CrabPachygrapsus marmoratusseen 4× near here

Gold Blotch GrouperEpinephelus costaeseen 4× near here

Striped SeabreamLithognathus mormyrusseen 4× near here

snakelocks anemoneAnemonia viridisseen 4× near here

Mediterranean Violet AeolidFlabellina affinisseen 4× near here

Atlantic Purple Sea UrchinParacentrotus lividusseen 3× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

10,987km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest Jul, Aug · almost nobody dives it Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, Dec.

From 741 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~17h 45m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightIbiza (IBZ)~17h 9mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~6 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Dive boatArco de Formentera~30 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 Arco de Formentera on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Ibiza

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Type: yes
Island: Formentera
Country: Spain
Marks: 38°43.428'N 1°23.189'E
Position: 38.7238, 1.3865

Where it is

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Nearby

OpenStreetMap has no other dive sites mapped around here — only the operators below. That means nobody has added them, not that there is nothing to dive.

Diving Center Cala Pada Ibizaoperator34km

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.