Greenland: all the information

All useful information for traveling to Greenland. The most important cities, the currency, the airports, the capital and all the essential advice for visiting Greenland without being caught unprepared.

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Greenland ©Greenland Guide

The Greenland card

  • Country: Greenland
  • Area 2 175 600 kmXNUMX
  • Capital: Nuuk
  • Population: 56 676
  • Language: Danish and Greenlandic (official), English
  • Religion: Protestant 69,2%, other 30,8%
  • State law: Territory subject to the Danish crown
  • Major cities: Sisimiut, Llulisat, Maniitsoq

Useful information about Greenland

  • Currency: Danish Krone
  • Country code: 0045
  • International license plate: DK
  • Driving lane: dx
  • Entry documents: Passport or Identity Card
  • Vaccination required: None
  • Electric current: 220V*
  • Unit of measure:
  • Time Zones: + 1 hour (time in Italy)
  • Fixed date holidays:Sankt Hans Aften is celebrated the night before the day of Saint John the Baptist, 24 June by lighting bonfires and singing, 24,25,26,31 January.
  • Climate: harsh, in summer the midnight sun lights up the nights and makes the temperatures welcoming, on the contrary in winter they drop terribly accompanied by polar nights without seeing the light of the sun for entire weeks.
  • Average temperatures: 8,4 °C (0 °C in winter, 18 °C in summer)
  • Transportation: the Greenlandic locations are connected to Greenlandair, the national airline, a good alternative is travel by sea: a fleet of ferries goes back and forth between Aappilattoq, in the south, and Uummannaq, in the north.
  • Airports: Nuuk, Ilulissat, Kangerlussuaq, Narsarsuaq

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