KULING

SERMERSOOQ · GREENLAND

Nuuk weather — measured locally, corrected against the outcome

Nuuk sits at the mouth of a large fjord system with the ice sheet behind it, where cold katabatic flow off the ice meets milder marine air offshore. That produces swings no coarse grid box can capture — KULING verifies against station measurements and airport METAR.

Open the forecast for Nuuk

How close KULING has been in Nuuk, last 90 days

Mean absolute error per parameter, verified against METAR (flygplatsobservationer), Molnobservationer, Stationsobservationer. Nothing here is a model self-estimate — every row compares a published forecast with a measurement.

ParameterMean errorVerified points
Cloud cover0.48 steg621
Wind direction50.70 °621
Humidity9.87 %171
Pressure0.67 hPa171
Visibility4152.60 m25

Forecast accuracy in Nuuk

Temp, mean error
1.5 °C

lower is better

Temp, bias
-1.5 °C

forecast runs cold

Wind, mean error
–
Rain, mean error
–

Based on 1 verified observations since 2026-09-13. Last 30 days: 1.5 °C mean temperature error — worse than the 90-day average.

Local weather character in Nuuk

  • Katabatic wind off the ice sheet can bring hard gusts inside the fjord while wind on the outer coast stays moderate.
  • Inner fjord and outer coast often differ by several degrees because of sea water versus ice.
  • Snowfall is heavily wind-driven, so measured snow depth differs clearly from modelled accumulation.

What you get in the app

  • Hourly forecast with apparent temperature, gusts and minute-level rain start.
  • Rain radar with nowcasting and live lightning strikes.
  • Marine weather: wave height, wave period, sea temperature and sea level.
  • Push alerts for rain, thunder, frost, strong wind and high sea level.
  • A plain-language summary that explains what today actually means.

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