IndonesiaRaja Ampat IslandsIsland

Misool Island

2,076 km² of land in the Ceram Sea.

When to go

Waigama

N 10 km

Ferry portsPeaksWaterfalls

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

In numbers

2,076km²

Area

416km

Coastline

151m

Highest point

29°C

Warmest sea

April

1,017km

To the mainland

When to go to Misool Island

Best for the beach from January to May.

The sea is warmest in April (29 °C) and coolest in August (28 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

29°28°26°

Jan26

29°28°26°

Feb25

29°28°26°

Mar27

29°29°27°

Apr27

29°29°27°

May26

28°28°26°

Jun25

28°27°25°

Jul24

28°27°25°

Aug20

28°28°26°

Sep20

29°29°26°

Oct20

29°29°27°

Nov22

29°29°27°

Dec27

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 Raja Ampat Regency, Southwest Papua Province, Indonesia

Misool Island is an island in Indonesia. It belongs to Raja Ampat Islands. It covers 2,076 km², with 416 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 151 m. The nearest mainland is 1,017 km away.

Getting there

Domine Eduard Osok Airport (SOQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 168 km in a straight lineCar hire at DPS airport (Kuta, Badung)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
Ferries2 ferry terminals on the island
1,017 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From January to Maybest 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 Misool Island.

2ferry terminalsLenmalas
8named peaksGunung Pelana, Gunung Ful, Wieng and 5 more
1waterfallsMalol Waterfall

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 125 m above the sea. 84 % of it is below 200 m.

20 %0–50 m
64 %50–200 m
16 %200–500 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.

Misool Island2,076 km²

Long Island3,529 km²

Mallorca3,685 km²

50 km

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

Towns on the island

Waigamano 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	29	29	28	27	27	28	29	29	29
Night low (°C)	26	26	26	27	27	26	25	25	26	26	27	27
Sea (°C)	29	29	29	29	29	28	28	28	28	29	29	29
Rain (mm)	150	160	198	214	232	274	259	183	162	130	133	166
Wet days	26	25	27	27	26	25	24	20	20	20	22	27
Sun h/day	6.4	6.3	6.4	6.0	6.5	5.6	5.6	6.4	6.1	6.7	6.5	6.2
Wind (km/h)	14	15	13	10	12	17	22	22	17	12	9	12

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	+0.6	+0.9	+0.6	+0.3	+0.3	+0.5	+0.7	+1.0	+0.9	+0.8	+0.6	+0.6
2021	+0.4	+0.5	+0.7	+0.5	+0.2	+0.6	+1.1	+1.3	+1.2	+0.8	+0.4	+0.3
2022	±0.0	+0.1	+0.3	+0.3	+0.7	+1.2	+1.2	+1.2	+1.5	+1.1	+0.5	+0.4
2023	+0.5	+0.1	+0.4	+0.5	+0.6	+0.5	+0.8	+0.2	−0.2	±0.0	+0.2	+0.1
2024	+0.2	+0.3	+0.7	+0.7	+0.7	+0.5	+0.9	+0.7	+0.9	+0.9	+0.8	+0.5
2025	+0.9	+0.7	+0.8	+0.2	+0.6	+0.9	+1.4	+1.0	+0.8	+0.7	+0.2	+0.3

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Fafanlap Village — Lefaan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Kalig reef ecosystem in Misool — Gambut Pratama · CC BY-SA 4.0

Senja Misool Selatan — Lefaan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Misool-Raja Ampat — Nugroho Arif Prabowo · CC BY-SA 4.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

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Indonesia3,155 km²958 m209 km away

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Indonesia160 km²71 m249 km away

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Obimayor Island

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q1326456) · 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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