AtlasChapter I · Region 04

El Quseir.

Historic port with untouched house reefs

Sites catalogued
8
Common season
Year-round
Difficulty
Novice–Advanced

About this region

One of the Red Sea's oldest port towns, where the diving is as unhurried as the streets. Pristine fringing reefs run right off the shore — vivid hard coral, mangrove bays and a slow, old-Egypt pace that the bigger resorts have left behind.

Region facts

Sites catalogued8
Centre26.10° N, 34.28° E
Common seasonYear-round
Conditions & forecast
Diving: Good
Wind
9 km/h S
Air
31.8°C
Water
28.6°C
Waves
0.2 m
Tide
↓ Falling
High 09:00 · Low 03:00
Next 24 hours
22h
31.4°
11 km/h
23h
30.9°
11 km/h
00h
31.7°
15 km/h
01h
33°
23 km/h
02h
32.2°
21 km/h
03h
31.6°
20 km/h
04h
30.5°
17 km/h
05h
29.2°
14 km/h
06h
28.1°
14 km/h
07h
29.4°
16 km/h
08h
32.9°
12 km/h
09h
35.1°
8 km/h
10h
34.8°
11 km/h
11h
34.4°
14 km/h
12h
34.3°
19 km/h
13h
34°
22 km/h
14h
34.2°
20 km/h
15h
33.9°
15 km/h
16h
33.7°
11 km/h
17h
33.2°
9 km/h
18h
32.2°
8 km/h
19h
31.2°
8 km/h
20h
30.5°
9 km/h
21h
30.7°
9 km/h
Fri
37.1° / 29.2°
24 km/h · 0.3 m
Sat
35.1° / 28.1°
23 km/h · 0.2 m
Sun
34.1° / 26.5°
21 km/h · 0.1 m
Mon
36.3° / 28.9°
24 km/h · 0.5 m
Tue
35.8° / 29.5°
29 km/h · 0.8 m
Wed
35.8° / 29.4°
25 km/h · 0.8 m
Thu
36.3° / 30°
22 km/h · 0.7 m

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