According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, Greenland is good to visit all year. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Greenland
- JanuaryBest
- FebruaryBest
- MarchBest
- AprilBest
- MayBest
- JuneBest
- JulyBest
- AugustBest
- SeptemberBest
- OctoberBest
- NovemberBest
- DecemberBest
- Best months
- All year
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
- Note
- Feb-Mar: Northern Lights, summer months: hiking
What Greenland is best for
Massive icebergs at Ilulissat Icefjord, remote Arctic wilderness, whale watching, and dog sledding adventures.
- Prices
- €€€ · more expensive than in Slovakia
Weather in Greenland by month
Monthly averages around Nuuk; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January best | about −7 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| February best | about −8 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| March best | about −7 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| April best | about −3 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| May best | about 1 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| June best | about 4 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| July best | about 6 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| August best | about 6 °C | some rain (93 mm) |
| September best | about 3 °C | a lot of rain (108 mm) |
| October best | about 0 °C | some rain (75 mm) |
| November best | about −4 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| December best | about −6 °C | some rain (72 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Greenland
- Capital
- Nuuk
- Language
- Kalaallisut
- Currency
- Danish Krone (DKK)
- Time
- UTC−2, UTC−1 in summer (most of the country)
- Plugs
- Type C, E, F, K · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +299
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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