Diving / Sinai / Sharm El Sheikh

South Sinai · Egypt's flagship reefs

Sharm El Sheikh — Ras Mohammed, Tiran & the Thistlegorm.

The Red Sea's most famous day-boat diving: a marine national park, drift-swept island reefs, and the greatest wreck dive in the world — all within an hour of the pier.

Type · day-boatLevel · beginner → advancedAirport · Sharm (SSH), in townSeason · year-round

The dive sites

What you'll dive in Sharm.

Each site gets its own map and full briefing (in production). Depths and levels below.

10 → 40 m

Ras Mohammed — Shark & Yolanda ReefAdvanced

The crown of the national park: two reefs meeting in blue water, walls dropping into the abyss, huge summer schools of barracuda, jack and snapper, and the scattered cargo of the Yolanda wreck. Currents can run — the definitive Sharm dive.

Shark Reef & Yolanda

5 → 30 m

Straits of Tiran — Jackson, Woodhouse, Thomas, GordonAdvanced · drift

Four reefs strung across a current-swept channel: fast, exhilarating drift diving over pristine hard coral, with sharks, turtles and pelagics patrolling the edges. Jackson Reef is the signature.

Jackson Reef

Woodhouse Reef

Thomas Reef

Gordon Reef

16 → 30 m

SS ThistlegormAdvanced · wreck

A WWII British freighter sunk in 1941, holds still packed with motorcycles, trucks and rifles — the most famous wreck dive on earth. Day-boat from Sharm or on a liveaboard; often two dives to do it justice.

SS Thistlegorm

15 → 28 m

Dunraven & Ras KatyOpen Water → Advanced

The upturned Victorian steamship Dunraven, wrapped in glassfish and lionfish; plus sheltered reefs like Ras Katy, Temple and the Gardens — perfect for courses, check-dives and gentler days.

Dunraven

Ras Katy

5 → 20 m

Near Garden & Ras Um SidAll levels · training

Easy, coral-rich house reefs off Naama Bay and the lighthouse — ideal for beginners, night dives and refreshers, alive with anthias, morays and octopus.

Near Garden

Ras Um Sid

Above water

Sinai desert & St Catherine

Quad and 4x4 desert, Bedouin dinners, and the sunrise climb of Mount Sinai with the ancient monastery — the perfect non-dive day.

Family & leisure

Naama Bay & Ras Mohammed by land

Reef snorkelling, glass-boats, the mangrove & salt lakes of Ras Mohammed, and Sharm's restaurants and nightlife.

Go offshore

Liveaboard from here

Sharm feeds the northern wrecks-and-reefs liveaboard routes — Thistlegorm, Abu Nuhas, Ras Mohammed and Tiran in one week.

When to dive Sharm

Year-round — time it to what you want.

Water temperature

21°C (winter) → 28°C (summer)

Wrecks, calmest seas

MAR–MAY & SEP–NOV

Big fish schools (Ras Mohammed)

JUN–AUG

Warmest water

JUL–SEP

Where to stay

The hotels Sharm divers use.

Mostly German, Italian, Russian and British divers — from 5★ resorts to dive-focused 4★.

Hotel	Category	Dive centre / best for
Renaissance Golden View	5★	Dive In Sharm · comfort + diving
Marina Sharm	4★	Emperor Divers · dive base
Baron Resort · Stella Di Mare · Mövenpick · Rixos	5★	Family & couples
Jaz Fanara	4★	Value dive stays