Kenny's Reef
Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 8–25m · intermediate · sheltered
Sheltered south-shore reef off Utila.
Conditions today
Retrieved · refreshed hourly
excellent
Excellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.
Limiting factor: none
- Wave height
- 0.4–0.8m
- Wave period
- 3.7–4.9s
- Wind chop
- 0–0.7m
- Sea temp
- 29.9–30.5°C
Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Sheltered — reef or lagoon protection, so swell is scored at half its open-water height.
Next few days
- TodayExcellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.excellent
- SundayExcellent — calm morning with 0.2m effective waves.excellent
- MondayExcellent — calm morning with 0.2m effective waves.excellent
Each day is scored over its morning dive window, the same as today's rating.
Dive briefing
AI-generated
Conditions are excellent with a calm morning and minimal swell. The sheltered south-shore reef runs from 8 to 25 metres and suits intermediate certification. Water temperature sits between 29.9 and 30.5°C. There are no limiting factors for your dive today.
Divers commonly log Stoplight Parrotfish, Atlantic Blue Tang, Spotted Eagle Ray, Schoolmaster Snapper, and Hawksbill Sea Turtle here. Queen Angelfish, Caribbean Bluehead Wrasse, and Western Atlantic Trumpetfish are also often recorded. The reef offers good variety across the depth range.
Written by Claude (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from the rating, forecast, and sightings on this page — it has no other source and cannot look anything up. Treat it as a summary, not as local knowledge.
Commonly seen here
Most-recorded species near this site, ranked by research-grade iNaturalist sightings from divers, snorkelers, and naturalists.
Sparisoma viride121 sightings- no photoAcanthurus coeruleus90 sightings
Aetobatus narinari81 sightings
Lutjanus apodus77 sightings
Eretmochelys imbricata75 sightings
Thalassoma bifasciatum71 sightings- no photoHolacanthus ciliaris69 sightings
Aulostomus maculatus60 sightings
Species come from iNaturalist — research-grade sightings logged by divers, snorkelers, and naturalists nearby. The ranking reflects what people photograph most, not guaranteed abundance. Ask a local operator what's actually being seen. Species names link to iNaturalist for range maps, seasonality and more photos. Photos by iNaturalist contributors under Creative Commons licences — individual credit on hover.
Other sites nearby
Within 25km, closest first — usually the same day's boat.