Greenland · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Saqqaq.

July leads for comfortable weather in Saqqaq: typically 13.7°C by day, 5.2°C at night, with 56 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high13.7°C

Typical low5.2°C

Rain in July56 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

42climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

5climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

64climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 42 — days reach only -6.7°C, 31° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5-6.7° / -12.5°

Feb

5-7.7° / -14.6°

Mar

5-6.2° / -13.6°

Apr

5-1° / -8.1°

May

96° / -1.1°

Jun

3311.2° / 2.8°

Jul

4213.7° / 5.2°

Aug

3712.7° / 5.5°

Sep

147.9° / 2.2°

Oct

53° / -2.5°

Nov

5-1.6° / -7°

Dec

5-4.4° / -9.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Saqqaq — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 9 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-6.7°C	-12.5°C	50 mm	9.9	-0.1°C	4 h 00	5	Good coverage
February	-7.7°C	-14.6°C	28 mm	6.8	-0.3°C	7 h 53	5	Good coverage
March	-6.2°C	-13.6°C	34 mm	6.9	-0.3°C	11 h 23	5	Good coverage
April	-1°C	-8.1°C	29 mm	6.2	0.0°C	15 h 18	5	Good coverage
May	6°C	-1.1°C	27 mm	6	0.8°C	19 h 25	9	Good coverage
June	11.2°C	2.8°C	33 mm	6.6	2.2°C	24 h	33	Good coverage
July	13.7°C	5.2°C	56 mm	6.9	4.4°C	21 h 44	42	Good coverage
August	12.7°C	5.5°C	61 mm	8.3	5.1°C	17 h 01	37	Good coverage
September	7.9°C	2.2°C	66 mm	9.6	4.5°C	13 h 00	14	Good coverage
October	3°C	-2.5°C	62 mm	9.3	2.8°C	9 h 15	5	Good coverage
November	-1.6°C	-7°C	60 mm	11.2	1.1°C	5 h 21	5	Good coverage
December	-4.4°C	-9.7°C	56 mm	12.3	0.2°C	2 h 09	5	Good coverage

Records at MITT. SISIMIUT, 2000–2020
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	11.0°C31 Jan 2010	-26.2°C23 Jan 2015	28 mm25 Jan 2005	98 mm2020 · driest 3 mm in 2016	18
February	12.0°C24 Feb 2005	-32.4°C9 Feb 2008	24 mm19 Feb 2005	63 mm2005 · driest 7 mm in 2006	19
March	14.7°C1 Mar 2006	-28.5°C8 Mar 2012	30 mm4 Mar 2005	81 mm2020 · driest 3 mm in 2003	19
April	13.3°C30 Apr 2019	-20.6°C7 Apr 2014	33 mm22 Apr 2016	71 mm2015 · driest 4 mm in 2009	19
May	20.4°C28 May 2010	-15.0°C2 May 2015	30 mm8 May 2016	88 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2019	19
June	21.9°C6 Jun 2012	-2.3°C3 Jun 2015	36 mm9 Jun 2004	110 mm2004 · driest 7 mm in 2017	19
July	23.5°C15 Jul 2009	-0.3°C5 Jul 2017	49 mm14 Jul 2005	205 mm2020 · driest 2 mm in 2016	19
August	23.3°C27 Aug 2003	0.3°C22 Aug 2016	34 mm30 Aug 2017	108 mm2010 · driest 6 mm in 2019	19
September	19.1°C11 Sep 2003	-5.2°C30 Sep 2020	37 mm19 Sep 2003	134 mm2003 · driest 7 mm in 2010	19
October	18.4°C11 Oct 2010	-12.2°C30 Oct 2007	92 mm29 Oct 2017	140 mm2017 · driest 8 mm in 2006	19
November	16.3°C26 Nov 2005	-18.3°C29 Nov 2015	37 mm4 Nov 2012	78 mm2016 · driest 16 mm in 2018	19
December	9.6°C28 Dec 2020	-21.4°C26 Dec 2016	24 mm21 Dec 2020	81 mm2013 · driest 9 mm in 2005	20

Typical days per month at MITT. SISIMIUT, 1991–2020
Month	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	30	<1
February	27	<1
March	30	<1
April	28	<1
May	19	<1
June	3	<1
July	<1	1
August	0	2
September	5	2
October	23	1
November	28	1
December	29	<1

How often, not how much — every day in MITT. SISIMIUT’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	31%	3%	26%	-10.2–-3.2°C
February	0%	24%	2%	22%	-13.0–-2.0°C
March	0%	22%	3%	17%	-9.5–-2.2°C
April	0%	20%	1%	21%	-4.3–1.5°C
May	<1%	19%	2%	12%	3.6–8.8°C
June	3%	21%	2%	16%	9.8–12.5°C
July	8%	22%	5%	27%	11.9–15.8°C
August	2%	27%	7%	34%	11.1–14.3°C
September	0%	33%	7%	47%	6.6–9.5°C
October	0%	30%	5%	41%	1.1–5.2°C
November	0%	37%	6%	55%	-3.6–0.8°C
December	0%	40%	4%	51%	-7.1–-1.6°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 3420096
NOAA station: GLE00147061 · MITT. SISIMIUT
Station distance: 29.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 66.70°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 9 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from MITT. SISIMIUT is what differs

Sisimiut→Sarfannguit→Itilleq→Uummannaarsuk→Ikerasak→Ikerasaarsuk→

Or put two places side by side: Saqqaq vs Sisimiut

Best time to visitSaqqaq.

July

January

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Saqqaq.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.