Happy Hours in Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston runs a visible price gradient, and it costs about fifteen minutes of driving. On King Street, where thirty listings sit inside the tourist core, Uncork at 476 lists $7.25 draft beers, Charleston Beer Works at 480 lists $6 house liquor, and CO at 340 lists $6 draft beer and wine. Out on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard in West Ashley, three bars inside ninety street numbers list the same categories for half that: Charleston Sports Pub at 1124 lists $3 draft beers, Kickin' Chicken at 1179 lists $3.50 drafts and wells, and Ms. Rose's at 1090 lists $3.50 domestic pints.

Between those poles the peninsula fills in along Meeting Street, East Bay and North Market. Kudu, tucked on Vanderhorst Street behind King, lists $2 off all draught daily from 4 to 6. Bar Vauté on Broad Street lists a $25 French happy hour set, and Belmont Lounge up on King lists $3 off wine and beer.

Oysters at $2 with a dollar off drinks turns up at five separate bars, which is as close as this city gets to a signature listing after the flat dollar off that covers about three listings in ten.

The clock is unusually rigid: better than six in ten windows open at 4 PM, most shut by 6 or 7, and roughly one listing in nine covers a weekend day. Avondale and James Island carry the rest.