Grand Makadi house reef

The North Reef, in front of The Grand Makadi hotel, is described as the most vibrant stretch of Makadi Bay. You can swim along the coral wall from the hotel jetty all the way to the Fort Arabesque. In the region, the most pleasant periods tend to be late spring and early autumn, when both the sea and air are warm; summer may be too hot and winter a bit cool. On the Egyptian Red Sea coast, the water tends to drop to 21-22 °C in winter, from December to February, and to stay at 27-28 °C in the summer months. Makadi Bay once hosted a freediving world championship, just over a decade before 2017.