What time is it in Greenland?

Greenland is currently on standard time, UTC−2:00. The next change is Sunday, March 28, 2027, when clocks go forward one hour — 11:00 pm becomes 12:00 am local time.

Greenland spans 3 time zones, so “the time in Greenland” depends where. Each has its own page. The IANA database lists 4 zone entries for Greenland; the others are historical splits that now keep the same clock as one of these.

Nuuk is 3 hours ahead of New York and 6 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 12:00 pm in Nuuk.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 6 hours 42 minutes long in Nuuk, and losing 6 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 1:11 pm, 71 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Nuuk sits 87 minutes of solar time west of UTC−2:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

At this latitude the year is extreme: Nuuk gets 21 hours 11 minutes of daylight at the June solstice and 4 hours 6 minutes at the December one — 17 hours 5 minutes between them. Clock time matters less here than almost anywhere, because for months at a stretch it is either light or dark whatever the clock says.

On UTC−2:00 right now, the same clock as Greenland: