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Candia

Dive site · UK

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

56Fair out of 100 for your dates

Stay home

2 days tie for best

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Tue 3 · 25 out of 100

Sea
0.7 m
Wind
21 kn
Gusts
28knboats in
Air
12°C

Wed 4 · 2 out of 100

Sea
1.0 m
Wind
25 kn
Gusts
36knboats in
Air
11°C

Thu 5 · 53 out of 100

Sea
0.6 m
Wind
18 kn
Gusts
24kn
Air
11°C

Fri 6 · 65 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
7kn
Air
12°C

Sat 7 · 66 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
8kn
Air
11°C

Sun 8 · 66 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
7kn
Air
11°C

Mon 9 · 57 out of 100

Sea
0.3 m
Wind
16 kn
Gusts
22kn
Air
12°C

Tap a day for sea, wind and water. Full forecast

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Mon 249, fair
  2. Tue 325, poor
  3. Wed 42, poor
  4. Thu 553, fair
  5. Fri 665, good
  6. Sat 766, good
  7. Sun 866, good
  8. Mon 957, fair
  9. Tue 1061, good
  10. Wed 1165, good

The site in three facts

  • Advancedand up
  • Water 14 °C7 mm semi-dry or a drysuit
  • Faces Sswell from there reaches it

Full forecast

every day, every number

The score doesn't know currents, the visibility on the day or your certification.

Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. Scored for Advanced divers.

Sea and wind forecast and score for each day at Candia
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Mon 2Nov49, fair0.5 m21 kn29kn13°C
Tue 3Nov25, poor0.7 m21 kn28knboats in12°C
Wed 4Nov2, poor1.0 m25 kn36knboats in11°C
Thu 5Nov53, fair0.6 m18 kn24kn11°C
Fri 6Nov65, good0.1 mflat5 kn7kn12°C
Sat 7Nov66, good0.1 mflat2 kn8kn11°C
Sun 8Nov66, good0.1 mflat2 kn7kn11°C
Mon 9Nov57, fair0.3 m16 kn22kn12°C
Tue 10Nov61, good0.4 m11 kn19kn14°C
Wed 11Nov65, good0.3 m3 kn9kn14°C

Sea is the waves near the site, in metres; wind and gusts in knots. "Boats in": gusts that keep dive boats in. More

Tide

  • Mon 2 NovHigh 04:16 +1.7 mLow 10:16 −1.5 mHigh 16:46 +1.6 mLow 22:55 −1.6 m
  • Tue 3 NovHigh 05:34 +1.6 mLow 11:41 −1.4 mHigh 18:04 +1.5 m
  • Wed 4 NovLow 00:18 −1.6 mHigh 06:49 +1.7 mLow 13:04 −1.4 mHigh 19:17 +1.6 m

Local clock times; heights about mean sea level. On open coasts the times are usually within a quarter of an hour; in bays, estuaries and on the Gulf of Mexico they can be an hour or more out. Slack water, the safest time to dive where there is current, is about half an hour either side of each high and low. Tide: EOT20 global ocean tide model, Hart-Davis et al. 2021, DGFI-TUM (doi:10.17882/79489), CC BY 4.0. Times and heights computed by us. A model, not a tide table: check a local table before you go.

Forecast updated . It refreshes every three hours. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Best time to go

No month stands out

Good diving days in a typical week, each month, for Advanced divers, from 2016 on (ERA5 history scored the same way).

  1. Jan6of 7: a trip from Sat 2 Jan
  2. Feb6of 7: a trip from Sat 6 Feb
  3. Mar7of 7: a trip from Sat 6 Mar
  4. Apr7of 7: a trip from Sat 3 Apr
  5. May7of 7: a trip from Sat 1 May
  6. Jun7of 7: a trip from Sat 5 Jun
  7. Jul7of 7: a trip from Sat 3 Jul
  8. Aug7of 7: a trip from Sat 7 Aug
  9. Sep7of 7: a trip from Sat 4 Sept
  10. Oct6of 7: a trip from Sat 2 Oct
  11. Nov6of 7: a trip from Tue 3 Nov
  12. Dec6of 7: a trip from Sat 5 Dec

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Typical, not a forecast: the sea and the mean wind of each day, with no gusts or rain in the history.

Map

the site and its town

Each place wears its best day on these dates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says.

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More diving near here

4 places

About

the place in full, sources, credits

About Candia

A wreck dive. It suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. The coast faces S: swell from the S reaches it, and wind from the N blows out to sea. No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 31 km away. The sea is about 9°C in February, its coldest month (drysuit), and 19°C in August, its warmest (7 mm wetsuit and hood). The town to stay in is Bognor Regis.

  • What it is Wreck.
  • How deep No source states how deep it goes.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 31 km away.

Water about 14°C: 7 mm semi-dry or a drysuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

Visibility about 5 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Jun, Jul and Aug (about 9 m).

The score is the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change it (how we score, how we earn).

Rough cost (estimate): about US$1,190–US$2,210 each

about US$1,190–US$2,210 each · 6 nights, 2 sharing: flights, hire car, stay, food.

Our estimate from typical public prices, not a quote: check the real prices before you book (where they come from). Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

How we worked it out 
Rough cost per person for this trip
WhatHow we worked it outEach
Flightsreturn ORD to LHR, estimated from distance and season, 3 airlines on the route, with a hold bagabout US$449–US$925
Hire car6 days, sharedabout US$141–US$234
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, sharedabout US$281–US$469
Food7 days eating outabout US$315–US$583
Totalabout US$1,190–US$2,210

Guided dives are not priced yet: we have no sourced price, so it is not in it. Prices from public sources, checked in 2026.

Where to stay: Bognor Regis

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Closest

Bognor Regis

about 50 min by car · 39 places to stay

about US$107/nightcountry average

See 39 places to stay in Bognor Regis · Booking.com

About Bognor Regis its beds, food and every spot near it

About US$107 a night is our estimate of the country's average 2-star double room that month: not each town's price, and not a quote. Drives are estimates. Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

Getting there: about 14h 25m

About 14h 25m door to door from Chicago

Fly ORD → LHR, direct, then 2h 05m by road

An estimate, one way; the journey never changes the score.

In the water

Dive centres nearby

No dive centre mapped within 25 km.

Dive centres: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Credits

What you might see

Too few records at this site itself, so these are the animals divers and surveys have recorded at other sites within 25 km in the last 15 years. A record says someone saw it there, not that you will.

  • Dogfish Scyliorhinus caniculaShark

    Seen in 38 records, mostly May to Jul.

  • Roker Raja clavataRay

    Seen in 26 records, mostly Jul.

  • Undulate ray Raja undulataRay

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Common sea star Asterias rubens

    Seen in 57 records, mostly Mar to Jul.

  • Brown crab Cancer pagurus

    Seen in 32 records, mostly Jul to Sep.

  • Dead man’s fingers Alcyonium digitatum

    Seen in 26 records, mostly Mar to Jul.

  • Fluke Pleuronectes platessa

    Seen in 20 records, mostly Jul.

  • Dahlia anemone Urticina felina

    Seen in 20 records, mostly May to Aug.

  • Dragonet Callionymus lyra

    Seen in 19 records, mostly Jul.

  • Common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis

    Seen in 19 records, mostly Jul to Aug.

  • Actinothoe sphyrodeta

    Seen in 15 records, mostly May to Aug.

  • Common lobster Homarus gammarus

    Seen in 14 records, mostly May to Aug.

Records: OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, IOC-UNESCO), from the datasets named here, CC0 and CC BY records only. Names: WoRMS, through OBIS; common names from Wikidata. Largest datasets here: Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by SeaSearch; DATRAS: ICES Database of trawl surveys; RSMP Baseline Dataset; Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by Natural England; ICES EggsAndLarvae. Credits

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