How warm is the water at Manta Point?

Monthly mean sea surface temperature at Manta Point ranges from 28.2 to 30.3 degrees Celsius (Open-Meteo Marine, 2021 to 2024).

How strong is the current at Manta Point?

Modelled surface currents at Manta Point typically run at 2.3 km/h and reach 4 km/h on the strongest days (Open-Meteo Marine, 2024).

Manta Point

Name: Manta Point
Address: ID

📍 Lombok, Indonesia

Photo: (c) Jacek Pietruszewski, some rights reserved (CC BY) · via iNaturalist

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) — recorded at Manta Point

Manta Point is a dive site in Lombok, Indonesia. It lies within the Gili Ayer, Gili Meno, Gili Trawangan Marine Recreation Park. Currents typically run at 2.3 km/h and reach 4 km/h on the strongest days. Water temperatures range from 28°C in August to 30°C in November. The typical daily tidal range is about 1.2 m. Species recorded in the area include Green Sea Turtle, Yellow-headed Moray, Striped Eel Catfish, Blackpatch Triggerfish and Ribbon Eel.

Dive Conditions

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Current

2.3 km/h (4.0)

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Water Temp

28–30 °C

Typical Current 2.3 km/h (up to 4.0)

Water Temperature 28–30 °C

Tidal Range 1.2 m (typical daily)

Protected Area Gili Ayer, Gili Meno, Gili Trawangan Marine Recreation Park

GPS -8.3652°, 116.0358°

Data sources: currents and water temperature from Open-Meteo Marine (CC BY 4.0), hourly model values 2024. Tidal range is the median daily range of modelled sea level from Open-Meteo Marine, hourly values 2024. Protected area boundary from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Species observations from iNaturalist, checked against the World Register of Marine Species.

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Conditions at Manta Point through the year

Sea surface temperature at the site coordinates, averaged per month from hourly model values for 2024. The water is warmest in November at about 30 °C and coolest in August at about 28 °C, a spread of 2.1 degrees across the year.

Monthly sea surface temperature at Manta Point (°C)
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
29.5	29.4	29.7	30.2	29.8	29.0	28.7	28.2	28.5	29.2	30.3	30.0

Ocean current at the site runs at a typical 2.3 km/h. In the strongest tenth of the hours modelled for 2024 it reaches 4.0 km/h, which is when entries are normally timed to slack water at the turn of the tide.

The tide moves the water level by a median 1.2 m over a day, and by up to 1.7 m on the largest days of the month. That range drives how much water is exchanged over the reef and when the current turns.

In the open sea off Manta Point, the highest wave of the day exceeded 1.5 m on 2.0 % of days between 2015 and 2024. The roughest month was July (5 % of days), the calmest April (0 %).

Share of days with waves above 1.5 m, open sea near Manta Point (%, 2015–2024)
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2	2	3	0	1	4	5	4	1	1	0	1

Manta Point lies inside Gili Ayer, Gili Meno, Gili Trawangan Marine Recreation Park. Protected areas can carry their own rules on entry fees, permits, anchoring and fishing; check the current rules with a local operator before you dive.

Satellite habitat mapping places Manta Point on an outer reef slope, over a seabed mapped as coral and algae. The classification comes from the nearest mapped reef polygon, about 16 m from the listed coordinates, so it describes the reef the site sits on rather than a single point on it.

How Manta Point compares

These comparisons use only the measured values above, set against the 376 dive sites published on findadive.com. A percentage shows the share of other sites with a lower (or higher) value, so it reads the same way wherever the site is.

Manta Point compared with all listed sites and with Lombok
Measure	This site	Compared with all sites	Median in Lombok
Mean water temperature	29.4 °C	cooler than 58 % of the other 375 sites	29.4 °C (44 sites)
Water temperature in the coolest month	28.2 °C	warmer than 55 % of the other 375 sites	28.2 °C (44 sites)
Typical current	2.3 km/h	stronger than 72 % of the other 375 sites	1.8 km/h (44 sites)
Current in the strongest 10 % of hours	4.0 km/h	stronger than 68 % of the other 375 sites	3.2 km/h (44 sites)
Median daily tidal range	1.2 m	smaller than 81 % of the other 375 sites	1.2 m (44 sites)

Water temperature, current and tide from Open-Meteo Marine (CC BY 4.0), hourly model values for 2024 at -8.3652°, 116.0358°. Protected area boundary from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Wave statistics from ERA5-Ocean via Open-Meteo Marine (contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2015–2024), daily maximum wave height on a 0.5° grid; land shelter tested against Natural Earth coastlines. Reef structure and seabed cover from the Allen Coral Atlas © 2018–2023 Allen Coral Atlas Partnership and Arizona State University (CC BY 4.0).