Kulusuk weather by month & the best time to visit
🇬🇱 Greenland · seaside town · subpolar / tundra climate
Kulusuk is short on reliable sunshine. Its best month is January (Score 0/100) — for stronger sun, try one of the nearby alternatives below.
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- Sun hours / year
- 1,569
- Sunniest month
- January
- Peak score
- 0/100
- Rain / year
- 1,625 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈8.7 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 4 (moderate)
- Sea at warmest
- 4°C / 39°F
- Population
- 2k
- Elevation
- 29 m
When is the best time to visit Kulusuk?
Kulusuk never gets truly sunny weather: January is as good as it gets at 0/100, and January is the low point (0/100). If sunshine is the point of the trip, the nearby alternatives below do better.
How sunny is Kulusuk?
Kulusuk isn't a sunny place by world standards: about 1,569 hours of sunshine a year. Conditions barely change through the year — only 0 Sunshine Score points separate January from January. It ranks #8 of 8 destinations in Greenland for annual sunshine, below the national median of 2,017 hours. The year's 1,625 mm of rain spreads fairly evenly across the months, with no pronounced dry season.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV | Sea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | -3° / 27°F | -6° / 21°F | 179 mm | 0 | -2° / 28°F |
| February | 0 | -4° / 25°F | -7° / 19°F | 157 mm | 0 | -2° / 28°F |
| March | 0 | -4° / 25°F | -7° / 19°F | 146 mm | 1 | -2° / 28°F |
| April | 0 | -1° / 30°F | -4° / 25°F | 140 mm | 2 | -2° / 28°F |
| May | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -1° / 30°F | 103 mm | 3 | -2° / 28°F |
| June | 0 | 4° / 39°F | 2° / 36°F | 92 mm | 4 | -1° / 30°F |
| July | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 4° / 39°F | 75 mm | 3 | 2° / 36°F |
| August | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 5° / 41°F | 84 mm | 2 | 4° / 39°F |
| September | 0 | 4° / 39°F | 3° / 37°F | 164 mm | 1 | 3° / 37°F |
| October | 0 | 2° / 36°F | 0° / 32°F | 135 mm | 0 | 1° / 34°F |
| November | 0 | 0° / 32°F | -2° / 28°F | 163 mm | 0 | -1° / 30°F |
| December | 0 | -2° / 28°F | -4° / 25°F | 187 mm | 0 | -2° / 28°F |
Sea temperature in Kulusuk by month
The sea off Kulusuk is warmest in August at around 4°C / 39°F, and coolest in January at -2°C / 28°F. It never reaches comfortable swimming temperatures (21°C+). Month-by-month sea-surface temperatures are in the Sea column of the table above.
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Nuuk Greenland · 702 km · best in Jan · 1,885 h sun/yr
- Reykjavík Iceland · 708 km · best in Jul · 1,318 h sun/yr
- Ilulissat Greenland · 719 km · best in Jul · 2,313 h sun/yr
- Reykjavík Iceland · 733 km · best in Jul · 1,456 h sun/yr
- Iqaluit Canada · 1,493 km · best in Jul · 1,936 h sun/yr
- Vágar Faroe Islands · 1,500 km · best in Aug · 998 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Kangerlussuaq Greenland · 627 km · 2,246 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Ísafjörður Iceland · 638 km · 984 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Maniitsoq Greenland · 728 km · 1,761 h sun/yr · best in Jul
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