| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +2h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +3h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +10h | Becomes +11h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +11h | Becomes +12h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −6h | Becomes −5h on 24 Oct |
Nuuk, Greenland runs on UTC−1. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−2 in winter, UTC−1 in summer. Next change: 24 Oct. The time difference between Nuuk and New York is 3 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 12:00–18:00 in Nuuk lines up with 09:00–15:00 in New York. The time difference between Nuuk and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–16:00 in Nuuk lines up with 11:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Nuuk and Tokyo is 10 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Nuuk.
Nuuk (Greenland) is home to roughly 19K people. Today brings about 11.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 08:32, sunset at 20:00. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−2 in winter, UTC−1 in summer. Next change: 24 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 64° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Greenland
Capital
Nuuk 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
UTC−1 · America/Nuuk
Coordinates
64.18°N, 51.72°W
Currency
DKK (kr)
Calling Code
+299
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Greenlandic, Danish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Nuuk holds roughly 19,000 residents, making it one of the smallest capitals in the world — in a territory of about 2.2 million square kilometres, which works out to fewer than 0.03 people per square kilometre nationally.
The clock: Greenland moved from UTC−3 to UTC−2 in 2023 specifically to narrow the gap with Denmark from four hours to three. It still changes its clocks for summer on the same dates as Europe.
Nuuk lies at 51.7°W. Its time zone, UTC−2, is built around the 30°W meridian. The 21.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 87 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:27 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 147 minutes and pushing solar noon to 14:27.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 21h 11m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 4h 6m. The swing between them is 17h 5m. Close to the Arctic or Antarctic circle, the year swings hard between long light and long dark.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Nuuk the sun comes up earliest on 21 June at 03:53, while the latest sunset waits until 23 June at 01:04. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Nuuk that civil twilight runs about 48 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 79 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Nuuk, Greenland is America/Nuuk with a current UTC offset of UTC−1.
Nuuk has an estimated population of 19K and is located at coordinates 64.18°N, 51.72°W. It is the capital city of Greenland.
Nuuk gets 21h 11m of daylight on its longest day and 4h 6m on its shortest, averaging 12h 31m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Nuuk falls at about 13:27 on UTC−2 standard time, because the city sits 21.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One of the Smallest Capitals in the World: Nuuk holds roughly 19,000 residents, making it one of the smallest capitals in the world — in a territory of about 2.2 million square kilometres, which works out to fewer than 0.03 people per square kilometre nationally.