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Kue Maafushi

Guesthouse island in Malé Atoll. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.

Guesthouse islandMaafushi
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The property at a glance
7.4/10
Guest rating · 177 reviews
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★★★
3-star class
via Booking
20
Rooms
Registry
Speedboat from Malé
Getting there · ~28 km from Malé
By distance
Malé Atoll · Maafushi
Setting
Registry
6.4
House reef · Very Good
Measured →
6.4
The Maafushi island reef · shared by 47
Very Good — 225 m to the drop-off, 36% coral or algae cover
The full reef, and how we measured it →
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Guest reviews rate the whole stay. The reef is the part no booking site measures — and the one thing we score ourselves.
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Snorkelling & marine life

House reef & underwater

Kue Maafushi · Malé Atoll · a shared island reef

6.4

Very Good house reef

Reef Conditions · top 34% of the 297 reefs we have measured


Shore entry Measured

~225 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.

Living cover Measured

About 36% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.

Heat history Measured

Peak heat stress 4.41 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).

From satellite this reef reads Very Good — roughly 36% living cover. We have not surveyed it in the water, so fish counts and big-encounter ratings stay pending. We don't estimate them.

Reef data modelled from Allen Coral Atlas benthic & geomorphic maps (CC BY 4.0) and NOAA Coral Reef Watch. No in-water survey — every figure above is a measurement. Marine icons: game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0).

Documented in Malé Atollcited

Reef manta ray

Bodu Hithi Kandu on the western side is a northeast-monsoon feeding area; Lankan Beyru on the east is assessed as a reproductive area, with no published season.

Grey reef & whitetip reef sharks

Recorded in the southern channels through both monsoons.

Year-roundSourceIUCN SSC 2023
Not established here honest

Turtles — no atoll-level seasonal study exists; treat them as year-round residents rather than a season

Anything reef-specific — this is a large, heavily developed atoll and the assessments cover particular channels, not the whole of it

Photos

Kue Maafushi — photo 2
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Kue Maafushi — photo 3
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Kue Maafushi — photo 6
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Where it is

3.94116, 73.48993

The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.