Moucha Islands

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What you'll see (7)

Small Giant ClamTridacna maximaseen 1× near here

Yellow-edge ChromisChromis pembaeseen 1× near here

Goldspotted RockcodEpinephelus coioidesseen 1× near here

Bluespotted Fantail RayTaeniura lymmaseen 1× near here

CobiaRachycentron canadumseen 1× near here

Red Sea Land Hermit CrabCoenobita scaevolaseen 1× near here

Red Sea Spotted GrouperEpinephelus geoffroyiseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

6,784km 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 Nov · almost nobody dives it Mar, Jun, Jul, Aug, Oct.

From 89 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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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

~12h 12m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightDjibouti (JIB)~11h 33mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~9 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Dive boatMoucha Islands~30 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 Moucha Islands on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Djibouti

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

Island: Moucha Island
Country: Djibouti
Marks: 11°43.152'N 43°10.313'E
Position: 11.7192, 43.1719
Local name: Îles Moucha الجزر موشا

Where it is

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Nearby

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.