About
Local islands, real Maldives
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The team
Everyone here lives and works on the islands we write about. A few of them also take people out personally on custom trips.
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How we make money
Some of the links here are affiliate links. If you book through one, the booking site pays us a small cut — you pay exactly the same price. Other places on this site are direct partners: people we know, who you contact yourself, with no fee in the middle. We don't take money to write a good review, and we say when we didn't like a place. If that ever stops being true, this paragraph will change.
Weather right now
What's the sky doing over Malé
Almost every trip starts in the capital — this is the live 5-day forecast for Malé and the airport island. Weather on the local islands tracks it closely, though your atoll can be sunnier when Malé is grey (or the other way round).
When to go: seasons and monsoons →Weather — Malé City
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5-day forecast by Open-Meteo. % = chance of precipitation.
Live from the islands
- Kuredu Island beachLhaviyani Atoll
- Veligandu sunset beachNorth Ari Atoll
- Kandooma FushiSouth Malé Atoll
- Velaa island 24/7Baa Atoll
Resort-run cameras, opened on the provider's site. Views change with weather and daylight.