Rainbow Reef

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What you'll see (19)

Napoleon WrasseCheilinus undulatusseen 24× near here

Steephead ParrotfishChlorurus microrhinosseen 23× near here

Ocellaris AnemonefishAmphiprion ocellarisseen 23× near here

Clark's AnemonefishAmphiprion clarkiiseen 22× near here

Orange-spotted TrevallyFlavocaranx bajadseen 22× near here

Masked RabbitfishSiganus puellusseen 20× near here

Bath's BlennyEcsenius bathiseen 20× near here

Yellowmask SurgeonfishAcanthurus mataseen 19× near here

Bleeker's ParrotfishChlorurus bleekeriseen 18× near here

Indo-Pacific Yellowtail DamselNeoglyphidodon nigrorisseen 18× near here

Lined BristletoothCtenochaetus striatusseen 18× near here

Lamarck's AngelfishGenicanthus lamarckseen 17× near here

Pink Skunk AnemonefishAmphiprion perideraionseen 17× near here

Striped SurgeonfishAcanthurus lineatusseen 17× near here

Bluespotted GrouperCephalopholis cyanostigmaseen 16× near here

Checkerboard WrasseHalichoeres hortulanusseen 16× near here

Lemon DamselPomacentrus moluccensisseen 16× near here

Redbreast Maori WrasseConcholabrus fasciatusseen 16× near here

Redfin BreamMonotaxis heterodonseen 15× near here

Planning a trip

6–10 days

worth going for

Long flight and a domestic connection.

2,951km from Singapore — about 18h each way, so two of those days are travel. 34 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan, May, Dec · almost nobody dives it Jul, Aug.

From 4,756 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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Monsoon

Good

October works.

The best diving in the region and the narrowest window to reach it — the liveaboards physically leave for the southeast monsoon.

The year here

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Best here: November, December, January, February, March.

Raja Ampat and West Papua. Written by hand from how the season actually runs, calibrated against what the boats do, since a season that disagrees with the operators is wrong however good the meteorology behind it. It describes most years, not this one: the forecast above is what knows about next week.

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

~9h 33m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightSorong (SOQ)~6h 33mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
FerryWaisai2hTwice a day, and missing it costs you a day. Liveaboards leave from Sorong harbour instead.
Dive boatRainbow Reef1hRaja Ampat's sites are spread wide — an hour is typical, more for Misool.

📍 Rainbow Reef on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Sorong

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: Pulau Piyainemo
Country: Indonesia
Marks: 0°35.709'S 130°17.412'E
Position: -0.5951, 130.2902

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.