Best Surf Beaches in Georgia

Located within the community of Tybee Island in Chatham County, Tybee Island - South Beach – also known as South Beach - has a long and wide beige sand beach.  The beach is positioned near the city of Savannah on a barrier island along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.  Tybee Island - South Beach is adjacent to Tybee Island - Mid Beach and has a beautiful backdrop of many oceanfront buildings, including houses, shops, restaurants, and nearby vacation homes, which together provide Instagram-worthy views, especially during sunset.

Located in Tybee Island near Savannah, North Beach – also known as Tybee Island North Beach and Tybee Island – North Beach – is a popular white-sand beach with multiple rocky jetties.  North Beach has been named one of the Top 50 Beaches in the United States by Randall Kaplan, the world’s foremost beach expert who is known as Mr. Beach.  In addition, this beach has also been listed as one of the "25 Best Beaches in the USA" by Travel+Leisure magazine.

Located along the Tybee Island shoreline, Mid Beach – also known as Tybee Island Mid Beach and Tybee Mid Island Beach – is a one-and-half mile long white-sand beach. 

Located along the Georgian shoreline, Driftwood Beach is a large white-sand beach with lots of driftwood in Jekyll Island. This beach is situated between a public picnic area named Clam Creek Picnic Area and a hotel named the Villas By The Sea Resort and Conference Center. This exquisite and popular beach was earlier a coastal maritime forest - decades of erosion has resulted in the forest’s tree trunks getting uprooted and being deposited on the beach as driftwood. A creek also flows through the beach into the Atlantic Ocean. This beach has been named the 28th Best Beach in the Top 50 Beaches in the United States list in 2022 by Randall Kaplan, the world’s foremost beach expert who is known as "Mr. Beach" – and was named as the 11^th best beach in the United States by TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice awards in 2021. This beach is also widely considered to be one of the most romantic beaches in the United States. 

Located near the city of Savannah, Little Tybee Island is a 6,780-acre island that is also a nature preserve and it has multiple unnamed white-sand beaches.  Some of the beaches in Little Tybee Island are considerably large in size.  Multiple creeks flow through some of the beaches in Little Tybee Island.  Once these creeks pass the beaches, they flow into the Atlantic Ocean.   

Little Tybee Island should not be confused with a separate adjacent island with a similar name called Tybee Island. 

Located on Jekyll Island, St. Andrews Beach – also known as St. Andrews Beach Park – is a curve-shaped beach with white sands and driftwood in the state of Georgia.  This beach is located near a coastal area named Jekyll Point, near the southernmost tip of the island.  St. Andrew Beach Jekyll Island is a part of a park named Jekyll Island State Park.  The Jekyll River also passes through this beach – after passing this beach, this river flows into the Atlantic Ocean.  Lonely Planet listed this beach as one of the seven best beaches in Georgia.  In addition, Southern Living magazine also listed this beach in its article “11 Best Georgia Beaches For A One-Of-A-Kind Getaway.”