Climate averages 1991–2020

Nuuk weather
in June.

A cool, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 8.8°C Daytime mean, June

Average low 2.9°C Night-time mean, June

Rainfall 65 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 21 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

June is a cool month in Nuuk: daytime highs average 8.8°C and nights cool to about 2.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes June a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 20 h 52 min on an average June day.

From June to July, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 12.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 65 mm to 62 mm.

The annual picture

June in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Nuuk climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Nuuk, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	-11.8°C-17.6°C	-17.6°C	56	9.4	5.55 h
February	-11.8°C-17.8°C	-17.8°C	43	7.1	8.58 h
March	-8.9°C-15.1°C	-15.1°C	48	7.9	11.712 h
April	-2.4°C-8.0°C	-8.0°C	53	8.2	15.015 h
May	2.7°C-2.5°C	-2.5°C	58	8.3	18.418 h
June, selected	8.8°C2.9°C	2.9°C	65	9.5	20.921 h
July	12.1°C5.9°C	5.9°C	62	9.0	19.720 h
August	11.1°C5.5°C	5.5°C	78	11.3	16.416 h
September	6.8°C1.4°C	1.4°C	96	12.2	13.113 h
October	0.1°C-5.6°C	-5.6°C	79	10.5	9.810 h
November	-6.5°C-12.1°C	-12.1°C	77	11.0	6.67 h
December	-9.5°C-15.6°C	-15.6°C	61	10.4	4.44 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Nuuk) is explained once on the Nuuk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.