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Rhino City

Dive site · Indonesia

Open Water divers and up

Scored for Advanced divers

Is it worth the trip?

80Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

2 days tie for best

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Tue 3 · 81 out of 100

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

Wed 4 · 81 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
4 kn
Gusts
13kn
Air
30°C

Thu 5 · 82 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
9kn
Air
29°C

Fri 6 · 82 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
10kn
Air
28°C

Sat 7 · 73 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
4 kn
Gusts
12kn
Air
29°C

Sun 8 · 74 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
10kn
Air
29°C

Mon 9 · 74 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
1 kn
Gusts
7kn
Air
27°C

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

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Tue 381, good
  2. Wed 481, good
  3. Thu 582, good
  4. Fri 682, good
  5. Sat 773, good
  6. Sun 874, good
  7. Mon 974, good
  8. Tue 1074, good
  9. Wed 1174, good
  10. Thu 1274, good

The site in five facts

  • Down to 20 mits deepest
  • From the shorehow you get in
  • Open Waterand 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 Open Water divers and up, as a dive guide states it. Scored for Advanced divers.

Sea and wind forecast and score for each day at Rhino City
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Tue 3Nov81, good0.1 mflat3 kn11kn28°C
Wed 4Nov81, good0.1 mflat4 kn13kn30°C
Thu 5Nov82, good0.1 mflat3 kn9kn29°C
Fri 6Nov82, good0.0 mflat2 kn10kn28°C
Sat 7Nov73, good0.0 mflat4 kn12kn29°C
Sun 8Nov74, good0.1 mflat3 kn10kn29°C
Mon 9Nov74, good0.1 mflat1 kn7kn27°C
Tue 10Nov74, good0.0 mflat2 kn8kn28°C
Wed 11Nov74, good0.0 mflat4 kn11kn29°C
Thu 12Nov74, good–5 kn19kn29°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 00:19 −0.2 mHigh 06:02 +0.5 mLow 13:09 −0.8 mHigh 20:11 +0.4 m
  • Wed 4 NovLow 01:56 −0.2 mHigh 07:43 +0.4 mLow 14:22 −0.6 mHigh 21:12 +0.5 m
  • Thu 5 NovLow 03:27 −0.4 mHigh 09:30 +0.3 mLow 15:32 −0.5 mHigh 22:04 +0.6 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.

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the site and its town

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

About Rhino City

A muck dive. It goes down to 20 m. You get in from the shore. It suits Open Water 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. 2 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 0.5 km away. The sea is about 27°C in July, its coldest month (3 mm wetsuit), and 30°C in January, its warmest (rash vest or 1 to 2 mm). The town to stay in is Ambon. Within 5 km we also list 5 dive sites.

  • What it is Muck.
  • How deep Down to 20 m.
  • Getting in From the shore.
  • Who it suits Suits Open Water divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres 2 dive centres or shops within 10 km, the nearest 0.5 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 Feb and Mar (about 30 m).

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

Where to stay: Ambon

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Closest

Ambon

about 20 min by car · 100 places to stay

about US$34/nightcountry average

See 100 places to stay in Ambon · Booking.com

About Ambon 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

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

In the water

Dive centres nearby

  • Ambon Dive Explore 0.5 kmSSI

  • Maluku Divers 1.1 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

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.

  • Petroscirtes brevicepsCombtooth blennies

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Ascarosepion pfefferiCuttlefish

    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. Credits

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