Springmaid PierNDBC-MROS1
At a harbour/5.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beaches/South Carolina/Garden City Beach
Garden City Beach, South Carolina
Beach in Horry County, South Carolina69°
84°/66°
Clear·
Feels like 69°·Light breeze 5 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 84° today.
Now. Garden City Beach is 69° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 63° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 72°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. Rain is likely tomorrow (52%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
40Air quality
87%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
69feels69
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8466
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6759
52%
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6347
21%
20mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6849
10%
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
7252
12mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7253
12mph
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7254
12mph
69°
84°66°
67°59°
63°47°
68°49°
72°52°
72°53°
72°54°
As of 3:00 AM in Garden City Beach, South Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Garden City Beach
Index 40, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Myrtle Beach-Conway (SC), 15 miles off.
40Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)40Good-
- Ozone28Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 49, good.
GoodModerate
- 49YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Garden City Beach
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Garden City Beach, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Facing SE 128°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
Rip current risk today: low
The flag in the picture is the colour of the forecast's risk (green low, yellow moderate, red high), not a flag raised on the beach.
A rip current is a narrow stream of water running out from the shore through the surf, often where fewer waves break. Caught in one, swim across it, along the shore, then back in.
Surf and swim
The surf zone forecast for Coastal Horry.
Today
- Rip current risk
- North of Myrtle Beach LowMyrtle Beach South Low
- Surf height
- North of Myrtle Beach 1 to 3 feetMyrtle Beach South 1 to 2 feet
- Water temperature
- In the mid 70s
- UV index
- High
Surf zone forecast
Coastal Horry, including Cherry Grove, North Myrtle Beach, Atlantic Beach, Windy Hill, Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, and Garden City. Issued 3:11 AM EDT Fri Oct 16.
| Forecast | Today | Saturday |
|---|---|---|
| Rip current risk | North of Myrtle Beach LowMyrtle Beach South Low | North of Myrtle Beach LowMyrtle Beach South Low |
| Surf height | North of Myrtle Beach 1 to 3 feetMyrtle Beach South 1 to 2 feet | North of Myrtle Beach 1 to 3 feetMyrtle Beach South 1 to 2 feet |
| Water temperature | In the mid 70s | - |
| UV index | High | - |
| Thunderstorm potential | None | None |
| Waterspout risk | Low | None |
| Weather | Sunny | Partly sunny. A chance of showers |
| High temperature | In the lower 80s | In the mid 60s |
| Winds | Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph | North winds 15 to 20 mph |
| Remarks | None | None |
| Tides | Springmaid PierHigh, 12:09 PM | Springmaid PierLow, 6:17 AMHigh, 1:04 PM |
- Sunday
- Low rip current risk. Surf height 2 to 4 feet. Sunny. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 20 mph
- Monday
- Moderate rip current risk. Surf height 1 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds around 20 mph
- Tuesday
- Moderate rip current risk. Surf height 1 to 3 feet. Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds around 15 mph
Beach
- County
- Horry County
- State
- South Carolina
- Latitude
- 33.5930° N
- Longitude
- 78.9831° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Garden City Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/26 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6442GW6442
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/30 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
McClellanville 7 NE03728
At a climate reference station/37.5 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Surfside Beach 0.7 SSWSC-HR-47
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/9 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Brookgreen GardensMINS1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/17 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in South Carolina
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Garden City Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Surfside Beachtown, 1 mi
- Garden Citycommunity, 1 mi
- Murrells Inletcommunity, 5 mi
- Socasteecommunity, 6 mi
- Bucksportcommunity, 9 mi
- Myrtle Beachcity, 9 mi
- Forestbrookcommunity, 9 mi
- Litchfield Beachcommunity, 11 mi
- Carolina Forestcommunity, 12 mi
- Red Hillcommunity, 13 mi
- Pawleys Islandtown, 14 mi
- Conwaycity, 17 mi
Beaches near Garden City Beach
- Surfside Beach2 mi
- Ocean Lakes Beach3 mi
- Pirateland Beach4 mi
- Lakewood Beach4 mi
- Long Bay Beach4 mi
- Myrtle Beach State Park4 mi
- State Park Beach4 mi
- Pebble Beach6 mi