Ridge Spring, South Carolina Weather
Ridge Spring, 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 Ridge Spring, Saluda County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Ridge Spring. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Ridge Spring is published on the Saluda County Airport (K6J4) page, 15 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 Ridge Spring 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 Ridge Spring: Aiken Regional Airport (KAIK) 22 km · Columbia Metropolitan Airport (KCAE) 51 km · Newberry County Airport (KEOE) 52 km · Daniel Field (KDNL) 55 km · North Air Force Auxillary Airfield (KXNO) 60 km
Conditions reported at K6J4 describe the airfield itself. Weather 15 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Ridge Spring specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Ridge Spring.
About Ridge Spring, South Carolina
Ridge Spring unfurls across a gently rolling landscape, a place where the sky seems to press down with a soft, insistent weight. It lies 20.0 miles north of Aiken, SC (from Aiken, SC: bearing 10°T), and is situated 8.4 miles west-south-west of Batesburg-Leesville. The earth here is a deep, fertile red, the kind that clings to your boots after a rain and promises good things for the crops it cradles. Oak trees, thick and ancient, stand sentinel along the edges of fields that stretch out like patchwork quilts under the wide Southern sun. In the late afternoon, the light slants, bathing everything in a honeyed glow, and the air carries the faint, sweet scent of pine and damp soil, a quiet perfume that settles over the small collection of homes and businesses. This is a corner of the world shaped by the enduring spirit of agriculture, where peach orchards and cotton fields have long been the pulse of the local economy. Ridge Spring's history is etched not in grand monuments, but in the quiet persistence of generations who worked this land, coaxing sustenance from its rich, red earth. The town itself, with its modest storefronts and churches, speaks of a time when life moved at a pace dictated by the seasons and the harvest. There's a palpable sense of continuity here, a feeling that the past is not so much buried as it is woven into the very texture of daily life, evident in the proud, weathered faces of those who call Ridge Spring home.
Live animated radar for Ridge Spring 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 | Ridge Spring, Saluda County, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 33.845418°N, 81.661772°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 29129 |
| Area Code | 803 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Ridge Spring, South Carolina Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ridge Spring, 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 Ridge Spring includes coordinates 33.845418°N, 81.661772°W, situated in Saluda County. ZIP code 29129. Telephone area code: 803. 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.
