Lane, South Carolina — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Lane, Williamsburg County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Lane. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Lane is published on the Williamsburg Regional Airport (KCKI) page, 22 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Lane have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Lane: Santee Cooper Regional Airport (KMNI) 31 km · Robert F Swinnie Airport (KPHH) 34 km · Lake City Municipal Airport - CJ Evans Field (K51J) 38 km · Berkeley County Airport (KMKS) 40 km · Hemingway Stuckey Airport (K38J) 41 km
Conditions reported at KCKI describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Lane specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Lane.
Lane sits in a land that remembers the slow, deliberate work of water and sun. It lies 38.3 miles south-east of Sumter, SC (from Sumter, SC: bearing 136°T), and is situated 8.5 miles north-north-east of St. Stephen. The earth here is a rich, dark loam, the kind that yields readily to the plow and holds the memory of ancient swamps. Cypress knees, gnarled and patient, stand sentinel in the low-lying areas, hinting at the water table that lies just beneath the surface. Open fields, often quilted with cotton or soybeans, stretch under a sky that can shift from a washed-out blue to a bruised, electric purple in the span of an afternoon. The air itself often carries a humid weight, thick with the scent of damp earth and the distant, sweet perfume of blooming jasmine. The history of Lane is deeply entwined with the agricultural rhythms of the South Carolina Lowcountry, a place where livelihoods have long been tied to the land's bounty. For generations, this was primarily a region of farms, the economy shaped by crops like indigo, rice, and later, cotton. The legacy of these pursuits is still visible in the quiet persistence of the landscape, in the straight lines of fields that recall old boundaries and the scattered remnants of farmhouses that speak of families who worked this soil. While the economy has diversified, the deep connection to the earth remains, a subtle but pervasive undercurrent in the character of Lane, where the pace of life often mirrors the unhurried growth of the crops.
Live animated radar for Lane and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Lane, Williamsburg County, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 33.521555°N, 79.878685°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 29564 |
| Area Code | 843, 854 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lane, South Carolina, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Lane includes coordinates 33.521555°N, 79.878685°W, situated in Williamsburg County. ZIP code 29564. Telephone area code: 843, 854. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.