Nuuk weather by month & the best time to visit
🇬🇱 Greenland · seaside town · subpolar / tundra climate
Nuuk 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
- 1,885
- Sunniest month
- January
- Peak score
- 0/100
- Rain / year
- 885 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈3.6 m
- Midday UV at peak
- 4 (moderate)
- Sea at warmest
- 5°C / 41°F
- Population
- 15k
- Elevation
- 81 m
When is the best time to visit Nuuk?
Nuuk 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 Nuuk?
Nuuk gets a moderate 1,885 hours of sunshine a year. Conditions barely change through the year — only 0 Sunshine Score points separate January from January. It ranks #6 of 8 destinations in Greenland for annual sunshine, below the national median of 2,017 hours. The year's 885 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 | -6° / 21°F | -9° / 16°F | 55 mm | 0 | -1° / 30°F |
| February | 0 | -6° / 21°F | -9° / 16°F | 51 mm | 0 | -1° / 30°F |
| March | 0 | -5° / 23°F | -9° / 16°F | 51 mm | 1 | -2° / 28°F |
| April | 0 | -2° / 28°F | -5° / 23°F | 59 mm | 2 | 0° / 32°F |
| May | 0 | 2° / 36°F | -1° / 30°F | 71 mm | 3 | 1° / 34°F |
| June | 0 | 6° / 43°F | 3° / 37°F | 76 mm | 4 | 3° / 37°F |
| July | 0 | 8° / 46°F | 5° / 41°F | 81 mm | 3 | 5° / 41°F |
| August | 0 | 8° / 46°F | 5° / 41°F | 95 mm | 3 | 5° / 41°F |
| September | 0 | 5° / 41°F | 2° / 36°F | 108 mm | 1 | 3° / 37°F |
| October | 0 | 1° / 34°F | -1° / 30°F | 78 mm | 0 | 2° / 36°F |
| November | 0 | -2° / 28°F | -5° / 23°F | 84 mm | 0 | 0° / 32°F |
| December | 0 | -4° / 25°F | -7° / 19°F | 76 mm | 0 | -1° / 30°F |
Sea temperature in Nuuk by month
The sea off Nuuk is warmest in July at around 5°C / 41°F, and coolest in March 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.
See Nuuk on the interactive sunshine globe →
Nearby places for sunshine
- Ilulissat Greenland · 562 km · best in Jul · 2,313 h sun/yr
- Iqaluit Canada · 822 km · best in Jul · 1,936 h sun/yr
- Goose Bay Canada · 1,307 km · best in Jul · 1,776 h sun/yr
- Reykjavík Iceland · 1,401 km · best in Jul · 1,318 h sun/yr
- Reykjavík Iceland · 1,428 km · best in Jul · 1,456 h sun/yr
- Sept-Îles Canada · 1,775 km · best in Aug · 1,867 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Maniitsoq Greenland · 148 km · 1,761 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Paamiut Greenland · 262 km · 2,920 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Kangerlussuaq Greenland · 317 km · 2,246 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Sisimiut Greenland · 321 km · 2,068 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Aasiaat Greenland · 506 km · 1,965 h sun/yr · best in Jul
Head-to-head
How Nuuk compares month by month: Nuuk vs Goose Bay · Nuuk vs Iqaluit · Nuuk vs Ilulissat · all comparisons
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