Dubrovnik City - Diving Holiday Destination

Dubrovnik City (Croatia)

Dubrovnik, located in the South of Croatia, is a city rich with culture and history. Dubrovnik old town was built in the 13th century and remains almost untouched to the present day. Tall walls surround Dubrovnik Old Town.

There are two main portals to the old town, Pile and Ploce, both leading to the Stradun, the Dubrovnik’s main boulevard. Dubrovnik has a rich cultural life that includes Dubrovnik theatre, several cinemas as well as Dubrovnik Film Festival and Dubrovnik Summer Festival, held every year in July and August. It has it’s own airport - Dubrovnik Airport Cilipi, as well as ferry terminal so it can be reached by air from vast range of European cities as well as by various ferries from Croatian cities, towns and islands as well as from Italy.

The Croatian Adriatic Sea is an attractive destination for scuba diving enthusiasts. It attracts many lovers of the underwater world.

Climate

The best period to visit the Croatian coast is from April to October. Peak temperatures in high season summer months (July, August) can reach 38°C (100°F), and the water surface at that point reaches a comfortable 26°C (79°F).

Spring starting in March can bring some rain showers, but the autumn months, September and October, are ideal for travel if you want to relax. In the off season the beaches are less crowded and the prices drop, weather, however, remains stable and the water is still agreeably warm. Generally, you can travel along the Croatian coast at any time of the year. During winter season, however, you should pack some warm clothing in spite of the mild Mediterranean climate. The temperatures seldom drop below the freezing point but some winds might be unpleasant in the winter.

Dive Facts

Sea temperature fluctuations throughout the year: in winter months temperature ranges from 7 to 10 °C, in summer months average surface temperature is from 21 to 26 °C, while the temperature at a depth of from 20 to 30 m (average diving depth) remains constant throughout the year, ranging from 16 to 17 °C.

The difference between high and low tide varies from 40 cm (Southern Adriatic and Dalmatia) to 1m at Istria. The Adriatic is a relatively calm sea, with no high waves or strong currents. Wave height ranges from 40 to 150 cm, to 4 to 5 m at the most in extremely adverse weather conditions on the open sea. Speed of sea currents is about 0.5 knots, although in certain places and in special weather conditions it can reach up to 4 knots.

Dive Attractions

See our Dive Site Directory for Scuba Diving Sites in Dubrovnik in more detail, and our Dive Club Directory for Dubrovnik Scuba Diving Clubs.

Dubrovnik is situated very close to a variety of attractive diving locations suitable for beginners and experienced divers as well. The water visability is superb due to the rocky coast and high depth of the water The 60 m long Italian ship "Taranto" build in Rotterdam in 1899 is laying on the bottom of the see in 22-54 m water depth .Trying to escape from an English submarine in 1943 the boat collided with a sea mine and foundered.

The 150 m long Italian supply vessel "Columbia" bombed by the English Airforce in World War 2 is laying on the bottom below the Konavli stones. The boat is superbly preserved and is laying in the water depth of 57-85 m. You can also dive across many walls which are falling up to 100 m into the depth. One of these walls is the outer side of the St. Andrija Island which is considered to be the most beautiful wall in the Adriatic Sea. You can find there red corals, gorgonians and many kind of fish, sun fish and turtles.

Among the caves are two antique wrecks with more than 1800 amphora in 25-30 m water depth. The amphora are dated 2-3 century before Christ. The second finding is on 30 m depth where giant ceramic dishes are found. Some of the dishes (“pithos”) are 2m broad. They belong to one of the rare in the Mediterranean.

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Croatian, written in Latin alphabet; German, Italian and English are the most common foreign languages spoken in the tourist resorts.

CURRENCY: 1 Kuna (HRK) = 100 Lipa. Notes are in denominations of 1000, 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 HRK. Coins are in denominations of 5, 2 and 1 HRK, and 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 lipa.

TIME ZONE: GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 from last Saturday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October).

ELECTRICITY: 220 volts, 50Hz
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