February repeats January's weather with one difference that matters more than it sounds. The sea reaches its floor of 8°C at the end of the month, and on this coast that number is not a detail of comfort: it is the length of the session.
The arithmetic is worth doing before booking. In a 5/4 with a hood, most people get ninety minutes in February and then need an hour in the car with the heater on. Two sessions a day is optimistic; one long one does not exist. A week here is five or six hours in the water, and that is the honest version of what a February trip buys.
The swell is at its annual maximum and so is the wind. That combination puts the good days at the mercy of a forecast that turns over every two days, which is why people who come in February come for ten days rather than for five.
