Costa del Montgrí
Mainland Montgrí coast at L'Estartit with limestone cliffs, swim-through tunnels, a 60 m natural cave and two wrecks, outside the Medes reserve fee zone.
8 dive sites
Your guide to Spain's best dive sites
In-depth guides with real conditions, marine life, and practical logistics for every dive site we cover.
Costa Brava
Mediterranean diving from Barcelona to Cap de Creus
Illes Medes
Seven-islet limestone archipelago off L'Estartit, the Spanish Mediterranean's flagship marine reserve with tame groupers, gorgonian walls and tunnel systems.
8 dive sitesFeatured
Costa del Maresme
Barcelona's everyday diving coast: parallel rocky bars, a sunken fish farm, and dredger wrecks within a 30 minute drive of the city.
8 dive sitesFeatured
Palamós
Central Costa Brava dive cluster built around a working fishing port, with the Boreas wreck, Ullastres gorgonian walls, and the Formigues archipelago.
7 dive sitesFeatured
Begur
Granite headland on the central Costa Brava with gorgonian walls, an offshore pinnacle to 60 m, and Roman amphorae in the shore-dive cove.
6 dive sites
Cap de Creus
Spain's easternmost peninsula: Paleozoic schist and pegmatite walls, caves, and the pinnacle of Massa d'Or inside Catalonia's first marine natural park.
6 dive sites
Sant Feliu de Guíxols
Sheltered Costa Brava bay with a six-tunnel limestone cave complex at Port Salví and a year-round local operator when neighbours close for winter.
5 dive sites
Tossa de Mar
Costa Brava's shore-diving capital: a granite coast of calas and pinnacles with resident seahorse colonies, multiple independent centres, and no reserve permits.
5 dive sites
More from Spain
Dive areas across Andalucía, Murcia, and the islands
Lanzarote
Canary Islands
Volcanic Atlantic island with year-round shore diving at Playa Chica, an angel shark stronghold, and Europe's first underwater sculpture museum.
8 dive sites
Ibiza
Balearic Islands
Balearic island with 200km of coastline offering caves, walls, the Don Pedro wreck, gorgonian forests, and UNESCO-protected Posidonia meadows.
8 dive sites
El Hierro
Canary Islands
Westernmost Canary Island with Spain's first marine reserve (1996), twin-pinnacle dive at El Bajon, and Europe's only smalltooth sand tiger shark aggregation.
8 dive sites
Cabo de Palos
Murcia
Murcia marine reserve where submarine mountains and historic wrecks concentrate some of the Mediterranean's densest fish aggregations.
8 dive sites
La Herradura
Costa Tropical
Sheltered horseshoe bay on Andalusia's Costa Tropical, from calm coves to 40 m wall dives along the Maro-Cerro Gordo cliffs.
8 dive sites
Cabo de Gata
Costa de Almería
Volcanic marine reserve in Almería with caves, craters, and a 1928 wreck. Andalusia's warmest Mediterranean diving and close to year-round.
7 dive sites
Tarifa
Costa de la Luz
An island at continental Europe's southern tip where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean: walls, wrecks, a kelp forest, and strong tidal currents.
6 dive sites
Marbella
Costa del Sol
Costa del Sol resort diving where murky nearshore water contrasts with Las Bóvedas, an offshore seamount at 18-40m with 20m+ visibility and pelagics.
3 dive sites
Spotlight: Egypt
World-class Red Sea diving from coral gardens to historic wrecks
Sharm El Sheikh
South Sinai Governorate
Southern Sinai dive hub where Ras Mohammed walls, Straits of Tiran reefs, and the SS Thistlegorm wreck share year-round Red Sea warmth.
8 dive sites
Marsa Alam
Red Sea Governorate
Egypt's southern Red Sea hub famous for dugong bays, oceanic whitetips at Elphinstone, and the spinner dolphin reef at Shaab Samadai.
8 dive sites
Hurghada
Red Sea Governorate
Egypt's busiest Red Sea hub, pairing the Abu Nuhas wreck graveyard with shallow Giftun reefs and a resident dolphin pod at Sha'ab El Erg.
8 dive sites
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131 dive sites with in-depth guides
Dive centers
Trusted local operators across our covered areas
Aquatica Illes Medes
SSI Diamond ITC in L'Estartit since 1996, specialising in small-group, low-impact diving in the Illes Medes Marine Reserve from a campsite-based dive school.
SSI6 services5 languages
Blaumar
CMAS dive centre in Mataró port with 40+ years of trading, running 600+ boat outings a year on the Maresme rocky ridges, 30 minutes by train from Barcelona.
CMAS7 services3 languages
Piscis Diving
PADI 5-Star Dive Resort in Sant Feliu de Guixols with 27 years of operation, 12 dive sites, and a perfect 5.0 rating from over 1,000 reviews.
PADI5 services4 languages
Poseidon Calella
PADI 5 Star IDC dive centre in Calella de Palafrugell, Costa Brava, operating since 1969 with beach-launch boat access to Ullastres and the Boreas wreck.
PADI / SSI6 services5 languages
Posidonia Dive
SSI Diamond Instructor Training Center at Port Balis marina, 35 km north of Barcelona, running 24 boat dive sites on the Maresme coast year-round.
SSI7 services3 languages
Unisub
L'Estartit's oldest dive centre (est. 1965), a PADI 5 Star CDC running daily boat trips to Illes Medes and the Montgrí Coast with volume dive packages.
PADI9 services7 languages
YellowSub Tarifa
Family-run PADI 5-Star Dive Resort in Tarifa harbour, the Parque Natural del Estrecho information point, with short boat dives around Isla de las Palomas.
PADI4 services3 languages
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