Airport
Our dive center is located 55 km north of Marsa Alam airport and 145 km south of Hurghada airport. We can organize your transfer from these airports to our dive center. Please send us an email to arrange the details (see our Contact page).
Weather & diving wetsuit choice
Each diver has a different sensitivity to temperature changes, but the following recommendations are valid for the vast majority of divers.
Temperatures | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Air maximum | 22 | 23 | 25 | 28 | 30 | 33 | 35 | 36 | 32 | 30 | 25 | 23 |
Air minimum | 13 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 22 | 17 | 14 |
Water | 22 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 24 |
Equipment | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
3 mm | – | – | – | – | – | X | X | X | X | X | X | – |
5 mm | X | X | X | X | X | X | – | – | – | – | X | X |
7 mm | X | X | X | X | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Hood | X | X | X | X | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Marsa Alam
Marsa Alam is a small but important city, located in eastern Egypt on the west coast of the Red Sea, 130 km south of El Quseir and 270 km south of Hurghada.
Marsa Alam has around 6000 inhabitants and the local populations come from two tribes, the Elababda and the Elbesharya. They work as fishermen or shepherds (herding sheep, goats and camels) or work in the mining industry (marble and granite).
During the Pharaonic and Roman times, the desert near Marsa Alam was known for its resources of gold and emeralds.
The construction of Marsa Alam International Airport has enabled it to become a holiday destination of paramount importance on the Red Sea.
El-Quseir
El Quseir (also called Al-Qusair, Al-Qusayr, Quseir, or Kosseir) is a city approximately 5,000 years old.
As it lies at the end of the shortest route between the Nile and the Red Sea, it has been one of the main ports on the Red Sea coast. The port was used for the export of phosphates and was also a major stopover for ships carrying spices between India and Britain.
It was from El Quseir that Queen Hatshepsut set off on an expedition to the mystical African land of Punt. The 16th century fortress of Sultan Selim still stands in the center of the city and demonstrates the ancient strategic importance of El Quseir. In addition El Quseir was also an important departure point for pilgrims traveling to Mecca.
Today El Quseir is better known as a first-class diving destination (sandy beaches, clear waters and magnificent coral reefs). The variety of dive sites is incredible: scattered pinnacles, outcrops, pristine coral gardens, and mazes of coral caverns and canyons.
But El Quseir is not just a seaside resort and still has some French and British style buildings intact. The town’s narrow streets are lined with colorful shops.
From El Quseir, Luxor can be visited over one or two days, with the one-way travel time being approximately 3.5 hours. From El Quseir, you can also take part in excursions (bicycle, quad, horse, camel) to admire the magnificent desert and meet the Bedouins.
