---
title: Hamda
type: Reef dive site
location: Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
coordinates: 27.237600326538086, 33.92850112915039
max_depth_m: 50
published: 2023-11-25T21:59:56.557Z
updated: 2026-09-06T15:02:06.244Z
tags: Hamda, Reef, Red Sea, Dive site, Diving
url: https://redseacreatures.com/diving/dive-sites/hamda
---

# Hamda

## Quick facts

- **Type:** Reef
- **Location:** Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt
- **Coordinates:** 27.237600326538086, 33.92850112915039
- **Max depth:** 50 m
- **Depth notes:** 0-15m at the main reef, sloping to
around 50m+
- **Level:** Expert

## Good to know

- Suitable for beginners
- Best for advanced divers
- Expert-level dive
- Wall / drop-off
- Drift dive
- Great for macro photography
- Pinnacles

## Overview

Hamda, also called Stone Beach or Lion's Head, is built in steps. A short wall runs from the reef top down to 12 to 15 m, a gentle slope takes over from there, and below that the bottom drops away in stages past 35 to 50 m. North and south the slope ends instead in vertical walls.

## Location

About 70 minutes from central Hurghada.

## Conditions

A bend in Big Giftun Island gives partial shelter from the wind, and the stepped profile suits any level of diver.

## Dive plan

The common choice is a drift from the north. The wall improves as it runs, broken by coral formations and by towers standing out from it, covered in soft coral and cut with caverns and swim-throughs. The dive finishes shallow in the sloping coral garden.

Starting from the mooring instead makes the coral garden the whole dive, deeper sections included.

## What to see

Snappers, surgeonfish and goatfish school in the shallows, while napoleon wrasse, groupers and morays hold the deeper ground. Turtles and sharks are regular. Whale sharks and mantas have both been recorded here, which for a site 8 km off Hurghada is unusual enough to justify watching the blue.

## Species recorded here (2)

- Napoleon Wrasse (*Cheilinus undulatus*)
- Whale Shark (*Rhincodon typus*)

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*Source: [Red Sea Creatures](https://redseacreatures.com/diving/dive-sites/hamda)*
*Updated: September 6, 2026*