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The Lighthouse

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 8–25m · beginner · semi

Reef near the harbour entrance close to Utila town.

Conditions today

Retrieved · refreshed hourly

marginal

Marginal — 0.7m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.8–1.2m
Wave period
4.6–5.4s
Wind chop
0.2–1m
Sea temp
28.5–29.1°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Semi-exposed — partial protection, so swell is scored at three-quarters of its open-water height.

Next few days

  • TodayMarginal — 0.7m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • FridayMarginal — 0.5m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • SaturdayMarginal — 0.4m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal

Each day is scored over its morning dive window, the same as today's rating.

Dive briefing

AI-generated

Conditions are marginal today. You're looking at raw wave heights of 0.8–1.2 metres with a short period between 4.6–5.4 seconds, which is making the site choppier than the effective wave height alone would suggest. It's a beginner site on a semi-exposed reef, so the limitations matter. Water temperature is a comfortable 28.5–29.1°C. This is a dive you can do, but you'll feel the conditions.

Divers commonly log Stoplight and Striped Parrotfish here, along with Atlantic Blue Tangs and Queen Angelfish. Caribbean Blueheads, Atlantic Sergeant Majors and Schoolmaster Snappers are often recorded too. Blue Land Crabs turn up regularly. The site is close to Utila town and sits near the harbour entrance, so it's convenient, but go in with realistic expectations about the sea state today.

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.

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Other sites nearby

Within 25km, closest first — usually the same day's boat.