Payong

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What you'll see (20)

Lagoon TriggerfishRhinecanthus aculeatusseen 10× near here

Clark's AnemonefishAmphiprion clarkiiseen 10× near here

Blacklip ButterflyfishChaetodon kleiniiseen 7× near here

Zigzag WrasseHalichoeres scapularisseen 6× near here

Eyeline SurgeonfishAcanthurus nigricaudaseen 6× near here

Orangeblotch SurgeonfishAcanthurus olivaceusseen 6× near here

Fire UrchinAsthenosoma variumseen 6× near here

Sharpnose SandperchParapercis cylindricaseen 6× near here

Hawksbill Sea TurtleEretmochelys imbricataseen 5× near here

Flagtail TriggerfishSufflamen chrysopterumseen 5× near here

Blacksaddle TobyCanthigaster valentiniseen 5× near here

Squaretail MulletEllochelon vaigiensisseen 5× near here

Striped Eel CatfishPlotosus lineatusseen 4× near here

Three-spot DascyllusDascyllus trimaculatusseen 4× near here

Blackback AnemonefishAmphiprion melanopusseen 4× near here

Orangestripe TriggerfishBalistapus undulatusseen 4× near here

Moorish IdolZanclus cornutusseen 4× near here

Yellowtail WrasseDiproctacanthus xanthurusseen 4× near here

Yellow-barred ParrotfishScarus dimidiatusseen 4× near here

Tawny Hermit CrabCoenobita rugosusseen 4× near here

Planning a trip

6–10 days

worth going for

Long flight and a domestic connection.

2,075km from Singapore — about 18h each way, so two of those days are travel. 30 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

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

From 8,601 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Monsoon

Good

October works.

Current is the defining feature here in every month. The season decides whether you can get out to the sites, not whether they are working.

The year here

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

Komodo and the Lesser Sundas. 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

~6h 48m

door to water, each way · 2 legs

FlightLabuan Bajo (LBJ)~5h 18mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Dive boatPayong1h 30mEvery Komodo boat leaves from the harbour in town. The northern sites are an hour or so; the southern ones are a long day or a liveaboard.

📍 Payong on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Labuan Bajo

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: Pulau Komodo
Country: Indonesia
Marks: 8°40.825'S 119°36.345'E
Position: -8.6804, 119.6058

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.