Having lived in both Hamburg (55deg lat) and Seattle (46), I can say that northwest Europe daylight hours are _brutal_ in the winter.
The first winter I was in Hamburg, I think we got 10 hours of sun all of December.
The first winter I was in Hamburg, I think we got 10 hours of sun all of December.
(In Berlin we often have a non-stop gray sky pretty often from somewhere in December to "mid" or so February with just a few days exceptions, especially January is super painful. I honestly would prefer shorter colder but clear-skyed days with snow).