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Mangoli Island

1,210 km² of land in the Molucca Sea.

When to go

Dofa

N 20 km

Ferry portsPeaksAirports

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

1,210km²

Area

340km

Coastline

211m

Highest point

38,000

People

30°C

Warmest sea

April

1,190km

To the mainland

When to go to Mangoli Island

Best for the beach from January to February and from August to October.

The sea is warmest in April (30 °C) and coolest in August (28 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

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Jan25

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Feb23

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Mar26

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Apr26

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May23

29°28°27°

Jun22

28°27°26°

Jul20

28°27°26°

Aug14

28°28°26°

Sep13

29°28°27°

Oct14

30°29°28°

Nov19

30°29°28°

Dec25

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island in Sula Islands Regency, North Maluku Province, Indonesia

Mangoli Island is an island in Indonesia. It covers 1,210 km², with 340 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 211 m. About 38,000 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 1,190 km away.

Getting there

Namniwel Airport (NAM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 196 km in a straight lineCar hire at DPS airport (Kuta, Badung)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
FerriesMangole - Bobong, Sanana - Mangole
1,190 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From January to February and from August to Octoberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Mangoli Island.

1ferry terminalsMangole ferry port
3named peaksBulu Bia, Gunung Loku, Aubil

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 189 m above the sea. 64 % of it is below 200 m.

27 %0–50 m
36 %50–200 m
28 %200–500 m
8 %500–1,000 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Mangoli Island1,210 km²

Tenerife2,038 km²

Long Island3,529 km²

100 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Towns on the island

Dofano census figure

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	28	28	28	28	28	28	27	27	28	28	29	29
Night low (°C)	27	27	27	28	28	27	26	26	26	27	28	28
Sea (°C)	29	29	29	30	29	29	28	28	28	29	30	30
Rain (mm)	154	130	176	190	163	197	164	80	79	64	102	155
Wet days	25	23	26	26	23	22	20	14	13	14	19	25
Sun h/day	5.8	5.9	6.2	6.4	7.1	6.5	6.9	7.5	7.9	8.1	7.3	6.0
Wind (km/h)	13	15	12	9	10	12	14	13	11	10	8	10

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	+0.2	+0.4	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	+0.8	+0.6	+0.6	+0.5	+0.3	+0.5
2021	+0.6	+0.7	+0.6	+0.4	+0.3	+0.3	+0.7	+0.9	+1.0	+0.6	+0.4	+0.1
2022	±0.0	+0.2	+0.5	+0.3	+0.7	+1.2	+1.1	+1.0	+1.3	+1.1	+0.4	+0.2
2023	+0.3	±0.0	+0.4	+0.5	+0.3	+0.5	+0.9	+0.4	−0.1	±0.0	+0.5	+0.2
2024	+0.2	+0.1	+0.3	+0.7	+0.5	+0.1	+0.6	+0.3	+0.7	+0.8	+0.8	+0.3
2025	+0.8	+0.8	+0.7	+0.2	+0.4	+0.4	+0.6	+0.2	+0.5	+0.4	−0.1	+0.1

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Nearby

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q1529054) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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