Folly Beach Pier Southside Surf Report & Ideal Conditions
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Folly Beach Pier Southside is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with moderate wind from the SW, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
| Ideal wave height | 2–4 ft |
| Ideal period | medium-period (8–16s) |
| Best swell direction | SE |
| Best wind | moderate wind from the SW |
| Best tide | high & incoming |
These best-conditions estimates come from real sessions LazySurfer users rated highly at this break — not an editorial guess (moderate-confidence read). In the app, LazySurfer's custom deep-learning model predicts your own 1–5★ rating at about 90% exact-match accuracy (97.6% within one star). How LazySurfer works →
Current conditions
Latest reading from the nearest NOAA buoys (UTC 2026-06-07 00:40 UTC). LazySurfer reads this same public NDBC data directly — no proprietary smoothing. New to buoy data? See how to read a NOAA buoy. A multi-day forecast for this spot is coming soon; for now these readings update continuously.
| Wave height | 2.3 ft |
| Dominant period | 7s |
| Swell direction | ESE (118°) |
| Wave buoy | NDBC station 41076 (29 km away) |
| Wind | 6 kt from the SSW — NDBC CHTS1 (14 km away) |
Tide
Predicted tide for the next two days from NOAA station 8665530 (CHARLESTON (Customhouse Wharf)), the nearest tide station (14 km away). Times local.
- 2026-06-06 00:08 — High 5.134 ft
- 2026-06-06 06:41 — Low 0.606 ft
- 2026-06-06 12:36 — High 4.395 ft
- 2026-06-06 18:38 — Low 0.824 ft
- 2026-06-07 00:52 — High 5.037 ft
- 2026-06-07 07:27 — Low 0.511 ft
Frequently asked
Is Folly Beach Pier Southside good for surfing right now?
As of the latest buoy reading (2026-06-07 00:40 UTC), Folly Beach Pier Southside is looking good: the live 2–4 ft short-period swell from the SE matches its ideal SE direction and is in its ideal size range, and the wind is moderate from the SW.
Where does LazySurfer's surf data for Folly Beach Pier Southside come from?
LazySurfer reads public data directly from NOAA's National Data Buoy Center and the National Weather Service — the nearest NDBC wave buoy (station 41076) and the nearest NOAA tide station (CHARLESTON (Customhouse Wharf)). The same raw readings NOAA publishes, with no proprietary smoothing.
What are the best surf conditions for Folly Beach Pier Southside?
Folly Beach Pier Southside is most often good on a 2–4 ft medium-period (8–16s) swell from the SE, with moderate wind from the SW, on a high incoming tide — the conditions LazySurfer surfers have logged and rated highest here.
Does LazySurfer predict whether Folly Beach Pier Southside is good for me?
Yes. LazySurfer trains a custom deep-learning model — a PyTorch neural network with per-user embeddings, retrained weekly on real logged surf sessions from the LazySurfer community — to predict the 1-to-5 star rating you personally would give, rather than a single average rating for everyone.
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