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The Best Snorkelling in Cozumel, Site by Site
The good news is that Cozumel's best snorkelling is shallow enough to see from the surface. The catch is that half of it is only reachable by boat.
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Diego Marín
Dive & Water Editor
Beat: Snorkeling, Best Time to Visit, Scuba Diving
Diego worked as a divemaster on Cozumel boats before he wrote about them, and has the current on Santa Rosa mapped in his head by month. He covers diving, snorkelling, the marine park rules and the fishing fleet, and he will tell you plainly when a site is wrong for your certification or when the wind means nothing is sailing.
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Guides by Diego Marín
Reported guides to Cozumel, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
Guide
The Best Time to Visit Cozumel: Month by Month, and What a Norte Does
March is the answer for most people. The interesting part is everything that makes the other eleven months cheaper, emptier, wetter or occasionally impossible.
11 min read
FeaturedGuide
Diving Cozumel: Choosing Sites, Shaping a Week, and the Current
The current does the swimming. What it does not do is choose your sites, pace your week, or stop you booking a wall dive you are not ready for. That part is yours.
11 min read
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News under Diego Marín's byline
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in Cozumel.
How this was written. News published under Diego Marín's byline was drafted by machine from primary sources — operator notices, government and municipal releases, published schedules — and every factual claim in it was matched to one of those sources before it published. A Cozumel Guide editor can change or pull any of it. Our editorial standards.
Seasonal
Whale Shark Season Is Real, and It Is Not in Cozumel's Water
They aggregate off Isla Mujeres and Holbox from roughly mid-May to mid-September. From Cozumel that is a fourteen-hour day with a ferry at both ends.
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The Marine Park Rules Are Not Suggestions, and the Fee Is Not an Upsell
A daily wristband, no gloves, no touching coral, and the starfish at El Cielo stay in the water. Four rules that decide what the reef looks like in twenty years.
Seasonal
Cozumel Water Temperature by Month, and What to Wear in It
The sea here never gets cold. It does get cold enough, in February, that divers who packed a rash guard and nothing else regret it on the second tank.
FeaturedTravel alert
In Winter, a Norte Can Close the Port and Strand You on the Wrong Side
Everyone plans around hurricanes. Far more visitors get caught out by the winter wind event that stops the ferry for two days in February.