Snorkeling spot Hon Tai

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What you'll see (19)

Three-spot DascyllusDascyllus trimaculatusseen 6× near here

Pink Skunk AnemonefishAmphiprion perideraionseen 5× near here

Black Longspine UrchinDiadema setosumseen 5× near here

Staghorn DamselAmblyglyphidodon curacaoseen 4× near here

Tomato ClownfishAmphiprion frenatusseen 3× near here

Weber's PullerChromis weberiseen 3× near here

Ghost JellyCyanea nozakiiseen 3× near here

Banded Sea UrchinEchinothrix calamarisseen 2× near here

Yellow BoxfishOstracion cubicumseen 2× near here

Varicose Wart SlugPhyllidia varicosaseen 2× near here

Moorish IdolZanclus cornutusseen 2× near here

Bluestreak Cleaner WrasseLabroides dimidiatusseen 2× near here

Mozambique TilapiaOreochromis mossambicusseen 2× near here

Striped SurgeonfishAcanthurus lineatusseen 2× near here

Pinkfish Sea CucumberHolothuria edulisseen 2× near here

Indo-Pacific Sergeant MajorAbudefduf vaigiensisseen 1× near here

Ocellate PhyllidiaPhyllidia ocellataseen 1× near here

Spotted PorcupinefishDiodon hystrixseen 1× near here

Jointed RazorfishAeoliscus strigatusseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

4–6 days

worth going for

Flight, then a boat or domestic hop.

1,700km from Singapore — about 12h 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, Oct, Nov, Dec.

From 367 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Monsoon

October is the worst of the season here.

Nha Trang and Con Dao. A short northeast monsoon that ends the season rather than dents it.

Northeast monsoon

Onshore wind and the year's rain arriving at once on the central coast. Most centres close.

The year here

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Best here: March, April, May, June, July, August.

Vietnam. 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

72% 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

~13h 30m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightNha Trang (CXR)~4h 15mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~6h 45mRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatSnorkeling spot Hon Tai~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Snorkeling spot Hon Tai on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Nha Trang

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: Cù Lao Chàm
Country: Vietnam
Marks: 15°54.706'N 108°32.349'E
Position: 15.9118, 108.5391

Where it is

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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.