December is not short of waves. The Atlantic is at full production and something is breaking somewhere on the west coast almost every day of the month.
The constraint is the window. At fifty-three degrees north the sun comes up around half past eight and is gone by half past four, and inside those hours the tide, the wind and the drive all have to agree. Two of the three usually do. A December trip is built around getting one good session rather than a good week, and people who come knowing that leave happy more often than people who came for a week of surfing.
The water is at 9°C and falling towards the February floor. Full winter kit, short sessions, and the compensation is a coast with nobody on it and a country that is at its best indoors after dark.
