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Magnificent Sea Anemone, Green Rock, Ko Tao, Ko Pha-ngan District, Surat Thani, Thailand imported from iNaturalist photo 318758527
Green Rock. Photo: (c) portioid, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Green Rock

Dive site · Thailand

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

77Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

Best on Thu 5: Sea: flat, Visibility about 15 m, Water 29 °C

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Wed 4 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
10kn
Air
28°C

Thu 5 · 81 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
6kn
Air
28°C

Fri 6 · 73 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
8 kn
Gusts
11kn
Air
28°C

Sat 7 · 78 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
11 kn
Gusts
17kn
Air
28°C

Sun 8 · 77 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
9 kn
Gusts
15kn
Air
28°C

Mon 9 · 69 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
8 kn
Gusts
22kn
Air
27°C

Tue 10 · 70 out of 100

Sea
0.3 m
Wind
12 kn
Gusts
17kn
Air
29°C

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

Forecast: next 9 days

Full forecast
  1. Tue 380, good
  2. Wed 480, good
  3. Thu 581, good
  4. Fri 673, good
  5. Sat 778, good
  6. Sun 877, good
  7. Mon 969, good
  8. Tue 1070, good
  9. Wed 1175, good

The site in five facts

  • Down to 28 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Water 29 °Crash vest or 1 to 2 mm
  • Faces NWswell 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, by its depth against the depths each course trains to. Scored for Advanced divers.

Sea and wind forecast and score for each day at Green Rock
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Tue 3Nov80, good0.0 mflat6 kn10kn29°C
Wed 4Nov80, good0.1 mflat5 kn10kn28°C
Thu 5Nov81, good0.1 mflat2 kn6kn28°C
Fri 6Nov73, good0.1 mflat8 kn11kn28°C
Sat 7Nov78, good0.2 mflat11 kn17kn28°C
Sun 8Nov77, good0.2 mflat9 kn15kn28°C
Mon 9Nov69, good0.2 mflat8 kn22kn27°C
Tue 10Nov70, good0.3 m12 kn17kn29°C
Wed 11Nov75, good0.4 m11 kn16kn27°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 NovLow 03:11 −0.7 mHigh 16:00 +0.6 m
  • Wed 4 NovLow 03:21 −0.6 mHigh 16:45 +0.3 m
  • Thu 5 NovLow 03:14 −0.5 mHigh 17:37 +0.1 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, its town, photos

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

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Photos of Green Rock

Diving Ko Tao, Thailand 1477
Near Green Rock. Photo: Amada44, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cephalopholis formosa in Ko Tao, Thailand 1476
Near Green Rock. Photo: Amada44, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

More diving near here

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

About Green Rock

A reef dive. It goes down to 28 m. You get in from a boat. It suits Advanced divers and up, by its depth against the depths each course trains to. The coast faces NW: swell from the NW reaches it, and wind from the SE blows out to sea. 55 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 0.9 km away. The sea is about 28°C in January, its coldest month (3 mm wetsuit), and 31°C in May, its warmest (rash vest or 1 to 2 mm). The town to stay in is Koh Tao. Within 5 km we also list 1 wind sports spot and 13 dive sites.

  • What it is Reef.
  • How deep Down to 28 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, by its depth against the depths each course trains to.
  • Dive centres 55 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 0.9 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 15 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Apr and Sep (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$1,150–US$2,290 each

about US$1,150–US$2,290 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 USM, estimated from distance and season, changing at HKG, full-service airlines, with a hold bagabout US$886–US$1,850
Hire car6 days, sharedabout US$47–US$81
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, sharedabout US$101–US$161
Food7 days eating outabout US$114–US$208
Totalabout US$1,150–US$2,290

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: Koh Tao

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Closest

Koh Tao

about 10 min by car · 147 places to stay

about US$34/nightcountry average

See 147 places to stay in Koh Tao · Booking.com

About Koh Tao 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 27h 55m

About 27h 55m door to door from Chicago

Fly ORD → USM, changing at Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), then 1h 30m by road

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

In the water

Dive centres nearby

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

Animals divers and surveys have recorded within 2 km of this site in the last 15 years. A record says someone saw it here, not that you will.

  • Bluespotted ribbontail ray Taeniura lymmaRay

    Seen in 7 records.

  • Chaetodon wiebeliButterflyfishes

    Seen in 8 records.

  • Titan triggerfish Balistoides viridescens

    Seen in 6 records.

  • Red-breasted wrasse Cheilinus fasciatus

    Seen in 6 records.

  • Scissortail sergeant Abudefduf sexfasciatus

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Pennant coralfish Heniochus acuminatus

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Bluechin parrotfish Scarus ghobban

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Streaked spinefoot Siganus javus

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Siganus virgatusRabbitfishes

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Blacktip grouper Epinephelus fasciatus

    Seen in 4 records.

  • Pink skunk clownfish Amphiprion perideraion

    Seen in 3 records.

  • Long-spined sea urchin Diadema setosum

    Seen in 3 records.

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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