Folly Beach Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – looking at Folly Beach Pier over the next couple of weeks, it’s a tough stretch. We’ve got a long dry spell ahead. The first real chance of anything rideable doesn't pop up until late in the window.

Right now and for most of the next week, we’re looking at tiny, weak surf. The combined wave energy is barely a whisper, hanging around the low double digits (5 to 50). A few mornings might get glassy with a light offshore touch, but the swell is just too small – under 2ft – to get excited about. Most afternoons get chopped up by a moderate onshore breeze, so the window of opportunity is very narrow and not worth paddling out for.

The standout, if you can call it that, is really about finding the best of a bad bunch. Things start to look a little less hopeless from Wednesday, August 26th onwards. On the morning of the 26th, we see a little bump in energy (52) with a 3ft southwest swell coming in under a clean cross-offshore breeze. It’s still small, but at least it’s clean. The energy continues to build slightly towards the end of the month, with the morning of Thursday, August 27th showing a combined energy of 71 and a 2.5ft south swell under a light cross-offshore wind. That’s about as good as it gets here.

For the final few days of August, the wind finally turns favourable, with mornings showing clean, cross-offshore conditions from the north-northeast. The swell is tiny, just 1.5ft, and the period is short (8-10 seconds), so it’s not going to have any push. The combined energy sits in the 30s, which is still weak. This stretch is really only for the longboarders with nothing else to do, or for learning to pop up on the foam.

Given the persistent poor surf quality and small, weak swells, this whole setup for the next 16 days is more interesting for a kite than a paddle. There are no real standout days that get the heart pumping. It’s just a waiting game.

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