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Labuan Bajo, the nearest town, 15 km away. Photo: Lasthib, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

Sabolon kecil dive site

Dive site · Indonesia

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

85Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

Best on Sat 7: Sea: flat, Visibility about 20 m, Water 30 °C

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Mon 2 · 85 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
2 kn
Gusts
9kn
Air
31°C

Tue 3 · 85 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
4 kn
Gusts
8kn
Air
30°C

Wed 4 · 85 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
7kn
Air
30°C

Thu 5 · 85 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
8kn
Air
29°C

Fri 6 · 84 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
7 kn
Gusts
11kn
Air
30°C

Sat 7 · 86 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
1 kn
Gusts
6kn
Air
29°C

Sun 8 · 85 out of 100

Sea
0.0 mflat
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
9kn
Air
30°C

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Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Mon 285, good
  2. Tue 385, good
  3. Wed 485, good
  4. Thu 585, good
  5. Fri 684, good
  6. Sat 786, good
  7. Sun 885, good
  8. Mon 985, good
  9. Tue 1084, good
  10. Wed 1186, good

The site in five facts

  • Down to 22 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Water 30 °Crash vest or 1 to 2 mm
  • Faces Nswell 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 Sabolon kecil dive site
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Mon 2Nov85, good0.1 mflat2 kn9kn31°C
Tue 3Nov85, good0.1 mflat4 kn8kn30°C
Wed 4Nov85, good0.1 mflat3 kn7kn30°C
Thu 5Nov85, good0.1 mflat5 kn8kn29°C
Fri 6Nov84, good0.1 mflat7 kn11kn30°C
Sat 7Nov86, good0.0 mflat1 kn6kn29°C
Sun 8Nov85, good0.0 mflat5 kn9kn30°C
Mon 9Nov85, good0.1 mflat4 kn10kn29°C
Tue 10Nov84, good0.0 mflat5 kn9kn29°C
Wed 11Nov86, good0.1 mflat0 kn8kn30°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 04:24 +0.5 mLow 11:58 −0.9 mHigh 19:20 +0.4 m
  • Tue 3 NovLow 00:38 +0.0 mHigh 05:46 +0.4 mLow 13:01 −0.7 mHigh 20:10 +0.5 m
  • Wed 4 NovLow 02:04 −0.1 mHigh 07:24 +0.3 mLow 14:04 −0.6 mHigh 20:55 +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.

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

About Sabolon kecil dive site

A pinnacle dive. It goes down to 22 m. You get in from a boat. It suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. The coast faces N: swell from the N reaches it, and wind from the S blows out to sea. No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 11 km away. The sea is about 28°C in February, its coldest month (3 mm wetsuit), and 30°C in May, its warmest (rash vest or 1 to 2 mm). The town to stay in is Labuan Bajo. Within 5 km we also list 1 dive site.

  • What it is Pinnacle.
  • How deep Down to 22 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 11 km away.

Water about 30°C: rash vest or 1 to 2 mm. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

Visibility about 20 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep (about 20 m).

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Where to stay: Labuan Bajo

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Closest

Labuan Bajo

about 30 min by car · 88 places to stay

about US$34/nightcountry average

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About Labuan Bajo 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

  • Snorkling Spot 11 km

  • Snorkeling 14 km

  • Twin Island Dive 14 km

  • CNDive 14 km

  • Divine Diving 14 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.

  • Nembrotha lorosaeNudibranch

    Seen in 3 records.

  • Humphead wrasse Cheilinus undulatus

    Seen in 12 records, mostly Jul to Sep.

  • Orange-dotted tuskfish Choerodon anchorago

    Seen in 8 records.

  • Clark's anemonefish Amphiprion clarkii

    Seen in 7 records.

  • Map puffer Arothron mappa

    Seen in 7 records.

  • Blackspotted puffer Arothron nigropunctatus

    Seen in 7 records.

  • Naso vlamingiiTangs

    Seen in 7 records.

  • Plectorhinchus lineatusGrunts

    Seen in 7 records.

  • Clown Tang Acanthurus lineatus

    Seen in 6 records.

  • Spinecheek anemonefish Amphiprion biaculeatus

    Seen in 6 records.

  • Pink skunk clownfish Amphiprion perideraion

    Seen in 6 records.

  • Chinese trumpetfish Aulostomus chinensis

    Seen in 6 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; A photographically-vouchered global citizen science dataset of sea slugs (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from the SEASLUG.WORLD platform since 2015; INSDC Sequences; CAS Ichthyology (ICH). Credits

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