Diving Sites in Halkidiki, Greece
Explore the dive sites we call home.
For over 22 years, we’ve been diving the waters around Ammouliani and Ouranoupoli — exploring, mapping and carefully selecting the dive sites we visit.
From shallow reefs ideal for beginners to deeper granite formations for more experienced divers, each site has its own character. Visibility is often excellent, conditions are naturally protected, and marine life shifts beautifully with the seasons.
Every dive site is chosen daily based on weather, sea conditions and your experience level — ensuring a safe, relaxed and enjoyable experience.
Most of these dive sites are explored during our daily boat trips around Ammouliani and Drenia Islands.
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Magiatika Diving Site
Location: Ouranoupoli, Halkidiki
Depth: 2-9m
Level: Beginners/Refresh/Training
Located directly in front of our base, Magiatika is the perfect introduction to the underwater world of Halkidiki.
With gentle depths and calm conditions, it is ideal for beginners, refresh dives and training sessions before heading out by boat.
Often described as an “aquarium”, the site is home to octopus, mullets and vibrant Mediterranean marine life.
Irina Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani, Halkidiki
Depth: 2-40m
Level: All levels (advanced profile available)
Named after a dear friend and frequent visitor, Irina is one of the most diverse dive sites in the area. It begins with a shallow plateau stretching parallel to the shore, scattered with rocks, holes and small surprises at every turn.
Further out, the seabed drops dramatically into deeper waters, creating an adventurous profile for experienced divers. With its rocky landscape and calm, undisturbed marine life that seems completely at home here, the site often feels slightly mysterious — and on lucky days, large amberjack make a powerful appearance.
Petalo 1 Diving Site
Location: NW Ammouliani, Halkidiki
Depth: 3-40m
Level: All levels
Located on the north-western side of Ammouliani, Petalo 1 is one of our most visited and most loved dive sites. With typically calm, “pool-like” conditions and a gentle entry starting at just 3 meters, it is ideal for beginners — yet deep enough to satisfy experienced divers.
As we descend, horseshoe-shaped rock formations gradually appear, covered in colorful sponges and vibrant Mediterranean life. The landscape feels open and spacious, almost like a natural underwater amphitheatre.
Groupers, snappers and schools of fish are regular residents here, while octopus, moray eels and congers hide among the rocks. And in the deeper sections, lobsters often wait quietly beneath ledges.
It’s a site we know intimately — every corner, every hole — and it continues to surprise us.
Petalo 2 Diving Site
Location: NW Ammouliani, Halkidiki
Depth: 5-55m
Level: Advanced (shallow reef suitable for all levels)
Also located on the north-western side of Ammouliani, Petalo 2 offers a more advanced and dramatic profile. A gently sloping reef begins in shallow water, full of fish life and ideal for relaxed exploration before gradually leading to deeper formations.
Following the natural contour of the seabed, we reach three distinctive petal-shaped ledges in deeper water. Here, red meagres, snappers and large groupers move confidently in the open, often circling divers in their natural habitat.
The shallow reef bursts with life, while the deeper sections feel powerful and alive — a true contrast within a single dive. On special occasions, we have even encountered giant spiny crabs hidden beneath the ledges.
Petalo 2 is one of the most exciting advanced dives in the area — structured, dynamic and full of possibility.
Posidon Diving Site
Location: NE Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
The first island North East of Amouliani, it is quite a large place with alternative routes for all divers levels. The waterbed is ideal for multilevel dives up to 45 meters, the marine life is rich, impressive rocks dominate the place and with large walls, constitute a unique and exciting seascape. Diving in Posidon is a constant exploration, ideal also for night dives.
Dias Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
A smaller island next to Posidon, its waterbeds morphology looks much alike, only steeper. Steps unfold, depth increases, as we stay admiring the seascape. Encounters with rays and wide sea fishes are often.Dias always has something new in stock for us. Catfish, flying fish and john dories could be anywhere around us.
Alykes Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
We drop the anchor at the starting place of 5 meters depth. It is a large site with passes between rocks of low gradient that reach 25 meters, at a point the waterbed drops down to 36 meters. Schools of breams, small fish but also morays and lobsters can be found deep. This location is well suited for a repetitive dive after a surface interval at Amoulianis beach of the same name.
Didymoi Vraxoi (Twin Rocks) Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
Twin rocks that surface and are visible in the horizon. Descending line at 7 meters, the maximum depth is 23 meters. It is a large place with rocks, holes and a cave with 2 entrances and enough room to accommodate comfortably the divers; it houses groupers and the usual suspects of the area. Oceanida Cool, relaxing dive for all diving levels with a maximum depth of 22 meters! Countless rocks with holes, channels and passes that house rich marine life.
Lobsters Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
An impressive diving spot, a huge place (3 different dives) with multiple routes and a cave in the shallows, Lobsters is a fascinating diving location that impresses even the most demanding diver. Undersea rocks are the probably the larger in the island. The dive sets off at 5 meters and according to the divers level, we choose the suited route. Giant rocks that peak at 15 meters descend quite steeply down to 40 meters! Lobsters, crayfish, morays, octopuses, congers and swarms of breams comprise a marine life beyond description.
Diaporo Diving Dite
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
It is a location ideally suited for relaxed repetitive dives. A vertical wall from the surface reaches 22 meters and has dense marine life. Schools of breams, goldblotch groupers and groupers usually constitute the subject of conversation when aboard!
Drenia Diving Site
Location: NE Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
Drenia is a diving site North East of Amouliani, a favorite of most divers. A large concrete rock full of holes and orifices descends like a wall on our left as we dive. Scattered small rocks by its base lead us to the maximum depth of 23 meters where we reach another wall rock. In this beautiful environment, almost everywhere we look, we can spot octopuses in their nests, morays in various colors and sizes, cowfish, countless nudibranches, seashells and small fishes that accompany us in the shallows of every dive in Chalkidiki. A place that is ideally suited for night dives.
Anatoli Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
We found this site quiterecently, exploring the south side of the Drenia islands. A complex of immersedgiant rocks form a network of channels creating a unique underwater landscape.One of the rocks, strangely spherical, can be found in 20 meters, full of holesand crevices hosting various marine life. Moray eels and octopuses fight eachother for territory in a fairy-tale forest of gorgonias while innocentnudibranches lead a serene life.
Balcony Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
A recently discovered diving spot reaching a maximum depth of 25 meters. Characteristic of the location are rocks in bizarre shapes that resemble arches at 20 meters and ones that form tunnels in shallower waters. Marine life is rich, as usual in the area!!
Mesopelagi Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
In the crystal clear waters near the picturesque Drenia and Amoulianis lighthouse, we find open sea rocks that peak in a depth of 6 meters and descend down to 36. We need 2 dives to explore them, combining many passes that resemble an underwater sierra in the middle of a plane. Alternative routes offer dense marine life that varies according to the time of year and weather conditions, as most open sea reefs.
Sierra Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
A recently discovered Dive site with unique rocky channels & canyons and rich marine life. Sierra is one of the best dive sites in the area!!
Grand Canyon Diving Site
Location: Ammouliani-Halkidiki-Greece
The name of the diving spot signifies many of the things we are going to admire! The underwater tour starts from 4meters and has maximum depth of 25meters.
All images are from our Dive Sites at Ammouliani Island
