Best Surf Spots in South Carolina
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- Folly Beach Pier Northside — best on a 2–4 ft swell from the southeast, high incoming tide
- Folly Beach Pier Southside — best on a 2–4 ft swell from the southeast, high incoming tide
- South Washout — best on a 2–4 ft swell from the southeast, high incoming tide
- North Washout — best on a 2–4 ft swell from the southeast, high incoming tide
- Cherry Grove Pier Northside — best on a 2–4 ft swell from the southeast, high outgoing tide
- Cherry Grove Pier Southside — best on a 2–4 ft swell from the southeast, mid outgoing tide
Frequently asked
What's the best surf spot in South Carolina?
By LazySurfer's session ratings, Folly Beach Pier Northside is the top-rated surf spot in South Carolina. Folly Beach Pier Southside and South Washout rank close behind. Each spot's page shows its ideal conditions and a live NOAA buoy and tide report.
How does LazySurfer rank surf spots in South Carolina?
LazySurfer ranks each break by the surf-quality ratings real users logged there, and trains a custom deep-learning model — a PyTorch neural network with per-user embeddings, retrained weekly on those logged sessions — to predict the 1-to-5 star rating you personally would give, rather than a single average for everyone.
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