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Candidasa, the nearest town, 2 km away. Photo: Jean-François Capdet, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Gili Tepekong North

Dive site · Indonesia

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

77Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

Best on Sun 8: Sea 0.3 m, Visibility about 10 m, Water 29 °C

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Tue 3 · 76 out of 100

Sea
0.4 m
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
4kn
Air
29°C

Wed 4 · 76 out of 100

Sea
0.5 m
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
5kn
Air
29°C

Thu 5 · 77 out of 100

Sea
0.4 m
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
4kn
Air
29°C

Fri 6 · 72 out of 100

Sea
0.4 m
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
5kn
Air
29°C

Sat 7 · 77 out of 100

Sea
0.4 m
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
7kn
Air
29°C

Sun 8 · 78 out of 100

Sea
0.3 m
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
5kn
Air
29°C

Mon 9 · 77 out of 100

Sea
0.3 m
Wind
4 kn
Gusts
10kn
Air
29°C

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

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Tue 376, good
  2. Wed 476, good
  3. Thu 577, good
  4. Fri 672, good
  5. Sat 777, good
  6. Sun 878, good
  7. Mon 977, good
  8. Tue 1078, good
  9. Wed 1178, good
  10. Thu 1278, good

The site in five facts

  • Down to 25 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Water 29 °Crash vest or 1 to 2 mm
  • 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 Gili Tepekong North
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Tue 3Nov76, good0.4 m3 kn4kn29°C
Wed 4Nov76, good0.5 m3 kn5kn29°C
Thu 5Nov77, good0.4 m2 kn4kn29°C
Fri 6Nov72, good0.4 m3 kn5kn29°C
Sat 7Nov77, good0.4 m2 kn7kn29°C
Sun 8Nov78, good0.3 m2 kn5kn29°C
Mon 9Nov77, good0.3 m4 kn10kn29°C
Tue 10Nov78, good0.3 m2 kn9kn29°C
Wed 11Nov78, good0.3 m2 kn9kn29°C
Thu 12Nov78, good–5 kn13kn29°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

  • Tue 3 NovHigh 03:32 +0.4 mLow 11:44 −0.6 mHigh 19:21 +0.2 m
  • Wed 4 NovLow 00:09 −0.0 mHigh 05:55 +0.3 mLow 12:53 −0.5 mHigh 19:53 +0.4 m
  • Thu 5 NovLow 01:52 −0.2 mHigh 07:43 +0.3 mLow 13:45 −0.4 mHigh 20:22 +0.5 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.

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

3 places

About

the place in full, sources, credits

About Gili Tepekong North

A reef dive. It goes down to 25 m. You get in from a boat. 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. 8 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 2.1 km away. The sea is about 27°C in August, its coldest month (3 mm wetsuit), and 29°C in January, its warmest (rash vest or 1 to 2 mm). The town to stay in is Candidasa. Within 5 km we also list 3 dive sites.

  • What it is Reef.
  • How deep Down to 25 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres 8 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 2.1 km away.

Water about 29°C: rash vest or 1 to 2 mm. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

Visibility about 10 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep and Oct (about 20 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$1,210–US$2,440 each

about US$1,210–US$2,440 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 2 November 2026.

How we worked it out 
Rough cost per person for this trip
WhatHow we worked it outEach
Flightsreturn ORD to DPS, estimated from distance and season, changing at HKG, full-service airlines, with a hold bagabout US$966–US$2,010
Hire car6 days, sharedabout US$47–US$81
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, sharedabout US$94–US$154
Food7 days eating outabout US$107–US$195
Totalabout US$1,210–US$2,440

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: Candidasa

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Closest

Candidasa

about 5 min by car · 63 places to stay

about US$34/nightcountry average

See 63 places to stay in Candidasa · Booking.com

About Candidasa its beds, food and every spot near it

About US$34 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 2 November 2026.

Getting there: about 30h 35m

About 30h 35m door to door from Chicago

Fly ORD → DPS, changing at Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), then 2h 05m by road

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

In the water

Dive centres nearby

  • Orca Dive Club Bali 2.1 km

  • Geko Dive Bali 8.2 km

  • Waterworxx 8.2 km

  • Absolute Scuba 8.3 km

  • Q-Dive 8.4 km

The nearest named dive centres and shops within 25 km, in a straight line; training agencies where the map states them. Listings, not a recommendation. 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.

  • Lined Bristletooth Ctenochaetus striatus

    Seen in 29 records, mostly Apr to Sep.

  • Sixbar wrasse Thalassoma hardwicke

    Seen in 24 records, mostly Apr to Aug.

  • Black Parrotfish Scarus niger

    Seen in 18 records, mostly Dec to Apr.

  • Chinese trumpetfish Aulostomus chinensis

    Seen in 17 records, mostly Apr to Aug.

  • Sunburst butterflyfish Chaetodon kleinii

    Seen in 17 records, mostly Apr to Sep.

  • Azure sea star Linckia laevigata

    Seen in 16 records, mostly Apr to Sep.

  • Striped eel catfish Plotosus lineatus

    Seen in 16 records, mostly Sep.

  • Moorish idol Zanclus cornutus

    Seen in 16 records, mostly Aug to Jan.

  • Twotone tang Zebrasoma scopas

    Seen in 15 records, mostly Apr to Aug.

  • Bluespotted cornetfish Fistularia commersonii

    Seen in 14 records, mostly Aug to Sep.

  • Red lionfish Pterois volitans

    Seen in 14 records, mostly Sep.

  • Banded coral shrimp Stenopus hispidus

    Seen in 14 records, mostly Sep.

Records: OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, IOC-UNESCO) and GBIF.org (1 November 2026, doi:10.15468/dl.jeesns), from the datasets named here, CC0 and CC BY records only. Names: WoRMS and GBIF; common names from the Catalogue of Life, the GBIF Backbone and Wikidata. Largest datasets here: iNaturalist Research-grade Observations; Programme CROMIS: carnet de plongée en ligne de la FFESSM-Observations d'espèces subaquatiques collectées par les utilisateurs de CROMIS; A photographically-vouchered global citizen science dataset of sea slugs (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from the SEASLUG.WORLD platform since 2015. Credits

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