NuukGreenland
Current time in Nuuk, Greenland
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Greenland Summer TimeUTC-01:00
⛶ Full-screen clockNuuk time at a glance
- Country
- Greenland
- Location
- Capital city of Greenland
- Time zone
America/Nuuk- UTC offset now
UTC-01:00- Current zone label
- GMT-1
- Next clock change
- 24 October 2026 at 23:00 GMT-2
Nuuk time guide
Does Nuuk change its clocks?
UTC-01:00.- Standard time
- UTC-02:00
- Daylight time
- UTC-01:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Nuuk
- Nuuk and London
- Normally 2 hours behind; transition timing can briefly change the gap
City and municipality
Nuuk is one settlement within Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
Statistics Greenland reported 20,281 residents in Nuuk on 1 October 2025 and 24,623 across Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. The municipality also includes other towns and settlements, so these totals should not be used interchangeably.
Time-zone identity for Nuuk
- IANA zone
America/Nuuk- UTC offset now
- UTC-01:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-1
- Clock-change status
- An offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Nuuk is currently 1 hour behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Next clock change in Nuuk
This change comes from the IANA Time Zone Database. It is described as an offset change unless its daylight-saving purpose can be verified.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Nuuk
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Nuuk, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
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Next 5 years
- UTC-02:00 UTC-02:00UTC offset decreased by
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Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Nuuk, capital of Greenland
Nuuk is the capital of Greenland. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Greenland
- Administrative area
- Sermersooq, Greenland
- Population
- 14,798
- Coordinates
- 64.1835° N, 51.7216° W. The elevation is 5 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Nuuk
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Nuuk. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- ReykjavíkCapital Region, Iceland1,432 km east
Atlantic/Reykjavik1 hour ahead - Saint-PierreSaint Pierre and Miquelon1,954 km south
America/Miquelon1 hour behind - TórshavnStreymoy, Faroe Islands2,227 km east
Atlantic/Faroe2 hours ahead - OttawaOntario, Canada2,559 km southwest
America/Toronto3 hours behind - LongyearbyenSvalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen2,639 km northeast
Arctic/Longyearbyen3 hours ahead - DublinLeinster, Ireland2,808 km east
Europe/Dublin2 hours ahead
Sources for Nuuk time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Quarterly population, October 2025Statistics Greenland · Population at 2025-10-01 · AccessedOfficial Nuuk, municipal and Greenland population figures.