Here’s the weather you can expect at the most photo-worthy beaches this summer
A swim retailer crunched the numbers and found the most Instagrammable beaches across the U.S., hopefully putting an end to your fear of missing out.
So grab the towel and beach chair and hit the sand for your summer vacation. Florida and California populate most of the top 20 beaches. But Washington, New York, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia also snuck in there.
SwimOutlet identified 250 of the most popular beaches in America, according to research on TripAdvisor and OpenAI. Then, the researcher tallied up American beach hashtag posts, all 91.6 million of them.
Here are the top Instagrammed beaches:
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida, boasts an impressive 16.5 million hashtag posts. That is twice the number of the second-place beach.
Summer weather norms:
- High temp: 87.3 degrees
- Low temp: 77.5 degrees
- Summer rain: 21.25 inches
South Beach, Florida
South Beach had nearly twice the hashtag posts as the third beach on the list.
Summer weather norms:
- High temp: 87.3 degrees
- Low temp: 77.5 degrees
- Summer rain: 21.25 inches
Palm Beach, Florida
Summer weather norms:
- High temp: 89.4 degrees
- Low temp: 75.8 degrees
- Summer rain: 22.79 inches
Newport Beach, California
SwimOutlet wrote that Newport Beach is especially featured during sunset.
Summer weather norms:
- High temp: 71.1 degrees
- Low temp: 63.8 degrees
- Summer rain: 0.09 inches
Long Beach, Washington
Long Beach’s boardwalk is the big Kodak moment.
Summer weather norms:
- High temp: 64.5 degrees
- Low temp: 50.7 degrees
- Summer rain: 5.33 inches
Here are the beaches that round out the top 20:
| Rank | Beach | State | Number of Hashtags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miami Beach | Florida | 16,559,513 |
| 2 | South Beach | Florida | 8,168,179 |
| 3 | Palm Beach | Florida | 4,995,373 |
| 4 | Newport Beach | California | 4,124,719 |
| 5 | Long Beach | Washington | 3,692,264 |
| 6 | Long Beach | New York | 3,648,945 |
| 7 | Venice Beach | California | 3,631,739 |
| 8 | Huntington Beach | California | 3,580,733 |
| 9 | Laguna Beach | California | 3,299,489 |
| 10 | Myrtle Beach | South Carolina | 2,994,698 |
| 11 | Virginia Beach | Virginia | 2,655,137 |
| 12 | Sunset Beach | North Carolina | 2,548,871 |
| 13 | Ocean Beach | California | 1,700,350 |
| 14 | Manhattan Beach | California | 1,691,232 |
| 15 | Daytona Beach | Florida | 1,504,854 |
| 16 | Redondo Beach | California | 1,468,937 |
| 17 | Pacific Beach | California | 1,366,871 |
| 18 | Clearwater Beach | Florida | 1,337,634 |
| 19 | Panama City Beach | Florida | 1,047,171 |
| 20 | Waikiki Beach | Hawaii | 998,286 |
