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Silver County

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

Guesthouse islandFuvahmulah
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The property at a glance
7.8/10
Guest rating · 13 reviews
via Booking.com
★★★★
4-star class
via Booking
8
Rooms
Registry
Domestic flight + speedboat
Getting there · ~499 km from Malé
By distance
Gnaviyani · Fuvahmulah
Setting
Registry
7.7
House reef · Excellent
Measured →
7.7
The Fuvahmulah island reef · shared by 22
Excellent — 518 m to the drop-off, 56% 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

Silver County · Gnaviyani · a shared island reef

7.7

Excellent house reef

Reef Conditions · top 12% of the 297 reefs we have measured


Shore entry Measured

~518 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.

Living cover Measured

About 56% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.

Heat history Measured

Peak heat stress 4.72 DHW since the imagery, 1 bleaching-alert year on record (2016).

From satellite this reef reads Excellent — roughly 56% 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 Gnaviyanicited

Tiger shark

Year-round, and the only known aggregation of its kind in the Maldives. Over 230 individuals have been identified and the population is strongly female-biased (around 84%), with adult females staying about two months at a time and returning year after year. It appears to be a reproductive area, not a passing-through spot.

Oceanic manta ray

Peaks March to May. Fuvahmulah accounts for roughly 86% of all oceanic manta sightings recorded in the Maldives — a different animal from the reef mantas of Baa and Ari, and far harder to find anywhere else in the country.

Mar–MaySourceIUCN SSC 2023

Pelagic thresher shark

Year-round, mainly September to March, at what is the only known thresher cleaning station in the western Indian Ocean.

Sep–MarSourceIUCN SSC 2023

Scalloped hammerhead

Two windows: roughly February to May, and again October to December.

Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Oct, Nov, DecSourceIUCN SSC 2023

Whale shark

Peaks February to April, from a smaller and female-biased record of around 90 identified individuals.

Feb–AprSourceIUCN SSC 2023
Not established here honest

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

The monsoon side-rule does not apply here — Fuvahmulah is a lone platform with no lagoon, and wave action matters more than tidal currents

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Where it is

-0.29484, 73.42406

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.