Pale granite boulders on a white sand beach with a palm's shadow falling across the sand

island field guide

La Digue

A granitic Seychelles island known for sculpted boulders, shallow lagoons and bicycle-scale travel.

Photo: Tobi 87 / Wikimedia Commons

Climate context

What changes through the year

Tropical rain and monsoon winds change water and seaweed conditions across the year.

Getting around

How the coast connects

Ferries connect La Digue with Praslin and Mahé. Bicycles and walking are central to local movement.

The coast itself

La Digue in photographs

The coastline as it actually looks, from the places named on this page.

Granite boulders and white surf along the wide beach at Grand Anse, La Digue
Grand Anse, La Digue, SeychellesGrand Anse on La Digue's exposed side, where granite boulders meet open ocean swell.Photo: dronepicr / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Small island with bare trees in shallow clear water, with the hills of Praslin on the horizon
Ile Turc and Praslin, seen from La Digue, SeychellesIle Turc and Praslin seen from La Digue across the shallow inshore water.Photo: NorbertNagel / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

Where and when

Position, and the shape of the year.

Both panels are drawn from facts the atlas holds: recorded coordinates and the latitude itself. Neither is a forecast.

Locator map of La Digue: sourced beach coordinates around -4.367, 55.827, with the destination centre marked
2 sourced beach records inside a frame roughly 432 km wide, plotted server-side from the atlas index over Natural Earth land outlines (public domain). The marked point is the coordinate in this record; every other mark is a beach record you can open from the directory.
Hours between sunrise and sunset, computed from latitude -4.367 alone. This is astronomy, not weather: no temperature, swell, rainfall or “best month” claim is implied for La Digue. Longest around Dec (12h 18m), shortest around Jun (11h 42m) — a 0.6-hour swing across the year.

Launch coverage

Beaches in La Digue

Coverage grows by reviewed entities, not automatically generated locality pages.

The rest of this coast

Sourced records nearby

4 beach records sit within 60 km of this coordinate. The nearest are listed below with their distance; most carry position and provenance only, and say so on the page.

  1. Anse GeorgettePraslin, Seychelles15.5 km
  2. Anse LazioPraslin, Seychelles16.6 km
  3. Beau VallonMahe, Seychelles53.0 km

Search the directory around La Digue →

Destination provenance

Sources

  1. Anse Source d’Argent place recordOpenStreetMap contributors ↗

    Coordinate and geographic identity record; access fees and opening hours remain unverified.