Weekly note
Kangerlussuaq
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Photo by Chmee2/Valtameri, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high0°C
Nightly low-6°C
Feels like, afternoon-4°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more4 · 22 mm
Humidity73%
Sunshine4.7 h/day
Daylight9.4 h/day
Hiking0 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the settlement: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

October: quieter than usual. Busiest from June to August; quietest in February, March, April, May and November.

Kangerlussuaq in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -6°C.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Cost of livingmoderate — prices run about 77% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
CurrencyDanish krone
LanguagesGreenlandic
PlugsType C and E and F and K, 230 V
DrivingOn the right
Calling code+299
Travel advice No advice against travel — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-08-11
HealthUK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-10-10. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival in Kangerlussuaq: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

October elsewhere

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