How to read the figures on this page
Every amount below is a price we saw published on a specific page on 3 August 2026. None of them is our quote, and none is a twelve-month average. They are observations with a date attached.
The sources fall into three groups. Airfares and nightly room rates come from large travel aggregators, where the figures are lead-in prices for departures and dates between August and October 2026. Day-tour and fixed-package prices come from Guide to Greenland, a Greenland-registered marketplace selling local operators' tours, and from the Danish agencies' own sites — Topas, Albatros Travel and Stjernegaard Rejser. Cruise prices come from the shipping lines' own pages.
We quote in Danish kroner, because that is the currency Greenland uses. The EUR and USD columns are converted and approximate. The conversion uses Danmarks Nationalbank's rates for 31 July 2026: 100 EUR was 747.52 DKK and 100 USD was 650.87 DKK. Figures observed in pounds sterling were converted at the same bank's rate of 873.55 DKK per 100 GBP.
Two things should be clear before you read on. A "from" price is the lowest the seller offers at the cheapest moment, not what a particular trip ends up costing. And airfares move quickly, so a price observed on one day is not a promise about the same day next month. These figures are useful as orders of magnitude and as a basis for comparison. They are not a budget.
Getting to Greenland by air
The flight is usually the largest single line, and it is also the least stable one. Greenland has few international routes, and the capacity on one particular departure can move the price more than the season does.
| Route | Observed level | ≈ EUR | ≈ USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copenhagen–Nuuk, return | 5,400–8,000 DKK | 720–1,070 | 830–1,230 |
| Keflavik–Nuuk, return | 3,600–5,500 DKK | 480–740 | 550–850 |
| Keflavik–Ilulissat, one way | 4,300–5,150 DKK | 575–690 | 660–790 |
| Keflavik–Kulusuk, one way | 3,100–9,100 DKK | 415–1,220 | 475–1,400 |
The Copenhagen–Nuuk spread comes from the aggregators' own month-by-month averages: the cheapest month sat around 5,400 DKK for a return, the dearest around 8,000 DKK. Note that the cheap month was midsummer, not winter. Winter departures carry fewer seats and a different mix of passengers, and that pushes the fare up.
Keflavik is the second gateway, and on these numbers it is the cheaper one into Nuuk. That does not automatically make it the cheaper trip: the flight to Iceland has to be paid for as well, and it is rarely inside a package.
Kulusuk is the clearest illustration that capacity matters more than season. The same route in the same week of August was offered from a little over 3,100 DKK and from a little over 9,100 DKK a few days apart. That is not two seasons; it is two departures. Kulusuk itself is a settlement of about 250 people and serves as the airstrip for Tasiilaq, which is the town.
Air Greenland does not publish a fixed fare table, but it does publish its own fees directly: changing the date on a transatlantic ticket costs 750 DKK plus the fare difference, a domestic change costs 500 DKK, and SeatBoost upgrade bidding opens at 499 DKK. Those belong in the budget if the itinerary contains anything likely to move.
Domestic legs are a separate expense
There is no road network connecting Greenland's towns and settlements. Travel between places is by plane, helicopter or boat. That domestic leg is a genuine additional cost, and it is the one most travellers forget, because in most countries the onward journey is a train or a rental car rather than another flight.
| Domestic leg | Observed level, one way | ≈ EUR | ≈ USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuuk–Ilulissat | 2,200–2,650 DKK | 295–355 | 340–405 |
| Nuuk–Kangerlussuaq | 1,900–2,000 DKK | 255–270 | 295–305 |
| Kangerlussuaq–Ilulissat | 1,900–3,100 DKK | 255–415 | 295–475 |
There is effectively no cheap domestic ticket. A flight of under an hour between Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq was offered at roughly the same price right across the autumn, and one domestic hop easily costs half of what a return from Copenhagen does.
That is why a trip based in one place is built differently, financially, from a multi-town circuit. What matters is not the number of days but the number of transport legs those days contain. If two offers run the same length, check whether one includes the domestic connections while the other only covers arrival in Greenland.
We would write the whole route out in order before comparing any prices. Note each leg, who operates it, and whether it is already inside a headline figure. That is how you avoid a cheap-looking trip that is missing the connection which actually delivers you to your destination.
A night in Nuuk and Ilulissat
The figures below are lead-in rates per room per night as shown on a large hotel aggregator for dates between August and October 2026. What drives the spread is category rather than season: the gap between a hostel bed and a full hotel room is far wider than the gap between August and October.
| Accommodation | Observed level per night | ≈ EUR | ≈ USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuuk, hostel bed | from about 650 DKK | 85 | 100 |
| Nuuk, apartment or simple room | 770–1,100 DKK | 105–145 | 120–170 |
| Nuuk, hotel room | 1,200–2,800 DKK | 160–375 | 185–430 |
| Ilulissat, hotel room | 1,150–2,500 DKK | 155–335 | 175–385 |
| Remote lodge at Eqi | about 7,150 DKK | 955 | 1,100 |
The aggregator's own city average for Nuuk was around 1,650 DKK a night across all categories. We would not use an average as a budget figure, because it blends hostels and four-star hotels into a number that matches no actual room.
Always check the room type, the number of nights, and whether the price is per person, per room or for the whole party. Check which meals are included, if any. If breakfast sits inside one offer and outside another, the two prices are not directly comparable.
Day tours and activities
The activity prices below are lead-in per-person prices at Guide to Greenland, observed on 3 August 2026. They are market prices from a marketplace, not a quote for a particular date.
| Activity | Duration | Observed "from" price | ≈ EUR | ≈ USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town or settlement walk | 1.5–2 hours | 330–555 DKK | 45–75 | 50–85 |
| Boat trip among the icebergs, Ilulissat | 2–2.5 hours | 790–1,430 DKK | 105–190 | 120–220 |
| Whale safari | 3 hours | 1,400–1,450 DKK | 187–194 | 215–223 |
| Kayaking among icebergs | 3 hours | 1,450–1,495 DKK | 194–200 | 223–230 |
| Ice sheet from Kangerlussuaq | 4–8 hours | 850–1,350 DKK | 114–181 | 131–207 |
| Dog sledding | 2 hours | 1,200–2,480 DKK | 160–332 | 184–381 |
| Dog sledding | 4 hours | 2,100–3,100 DKK | 281–415 | 323–476 |
| Full day to the Eqi glacier | 6–9 hours | 2,395–2,850 DKK | 320–381 | 368–438 |
| Helicopter flightseeing over the icefjord | 1–1.5 hours | 3,350–5,700 DKK | 448–762 | 515–876 |
Elsewhere on this site we previously used a lower figure as a general market indicator for a two-hour boat trip. That figure was not a price we had found, but a guess based on a search-result summary, and it has now been corrected. The cheapest published two-hour boat trip in Ilulissat we could find in August 2026 was 790 DKK, and an open-boat iceberg safari of the same length was 1,430 DKK. We now use 790 DKK as the observed floor for a short boat trip. The difference between 790 and 1,430 DKK is not season. It is the boat, the group size and what is included.
Note too that dog sledding can only be bought in West Greenland north of the Arctic Circle and in East Greenland. It does not exist in Nuuk, Qaqortoq or anywhere in South Greenland, whatever the budget allows, and the season runs from January to April.
Finally, prices are per person unless stated otherwise. A private glacier cruise from Nuuk was listed at 14,940 DKK, but that is the price of the whole boat. Split six ways it is a different expense entirely from the same number split two ways.
Packages from Danish and German agencies
Here the two markets differ structurally, and for a reader outside Denmark this is the single most useful line on the page. Danish agencies normally include the flight from Copenhagen. Several large German agencies do not.
| Package | Length | Observed price | Flights included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilulissat, short stay (Danish agency) | 5 days | from 9,300–11,700 DKK | yes, from Copenhagen |
| Ilulissat, winter and northern lights (Danish agency) | 8 days | 14,970–23,970 DKK | yes, from Copenhagen |
| Disko Bay circuit, guided (Danish agency) | 8 days | 26,970–33,995 DKK | yes, from Copenhagen |
| Disko Bay, full round trip (Danish agency) | 12 days | 40,970–41,970 DKK | yes, from Copenhagen |
| East Greenland, trekking (German agency) | 8–9 days | 3,175–3,955 EUR | excluded by one, included by another |
| West Greenland and Disko Bay (German agency) | 12–15 days | 4,595–6,495 EUR | yes |
3,175 EUR is about 23,700 DKK and 6,495 EUR about 48,550 DKK. The two cannot be set against each other head to head, though: the cheapest German offer was explicitly "zzgl. Flug", meaning flights are extra, while the next one up was "inkl. Fluganreise". A gap of 780 EUR in the headline can be no gap at all in practice.
Single supplements were published only by the Danish agencies. We saw 3,898 DKK and 6,000 DKK as the supplement on eight- and twelve-day trips, and at a third agency the solo price was about 7,500 DKK above the shared-room price. None of the cruise lines we checked published a single supplement on any page we could reach.
A cruise is a different kind of budget
Most of Greenland's visitors arrive by ship, and the price structure does not resemble a land-based trip. Meals, accommodation and most excursions are usually inside the fare, so one number covers the whole holiday. We deal with the difference between expedition ships and large cruise ships in our guide to Greenland cruises; only the figures belong here.
| Voyage | Length | Observed "from" price | ≈ DKK |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Greenland and Scoresby Sund from Iceland | 9–11 days | 5,700–6,100 EUR | 42,600–45,600 DKK |
| West Greenland and Disko Bay, flights included | 11 days | 8,630 EUR | about 64,500 DKK |
| High Arctic west coast with charter flights | 16 days | 19,281–20,446 USD | 125,500–133,000 DKK |
| Large ship, Iceland–Greenland–Canada | 15 days | 8,999 USD | about 58,600 DKK |
East Greenland is the cheap way in for anyone who wants to sail, because the departures leave from Iceland and need no charter aircraft. West coast itineraries cost more precisely because ship and passengers have to be flown into position. Note also how heavily and how briefly these are discounted: we saw the same 19-day itinerary at 9,100 EUR for 2027 and 10,900 EUR for 2026, and one line was showing sale fares 25 to 40 per cent below list. A cruise price without a date on it is close to worthless.
What we could not price
Some lines had no published, trustworthy price we were willing to stand behind, so we say so rather than guess.
- Food and restaurants. We found no current published menu or grocery prices from Greenland we could verify. It is a real cost, and it is neither small nor uniform between a town like Nuuk and a settlement, but we cannot put a figure on it here.
- Winter departures, November to February. The aggregators only expose about three months ahead, so we have no observed fares for deep winter. The only winter data point we have is a monthly average of around 7,000 DKK for Copenhagen–Nuuk return in March.
- Air Greenland's own fares. The airline's booking engine publishes no static fare table, only the fees quoted above. Every airfare on this page therefore comes from a third-party aggregator.
- Single cabins aboard ship. No line's page stated a single-occupancy supplement. It is typically a substantial item and should be asked about directly.
- Summer 2027 and beyond. We found 2027 prices at several agencies and lines, but not broadly enough to state a range.
The season changes more than the activities
Season drives demand and therefore what is on offer. Summer is the busiest period on land, while the shoulder seasons and winter can be quieter. As the airfare table shows, though, fares do not necessarily follow that pattern.
The season also changes which activities it makes sense to budget for at all. Humpback whales are in Disko Bay from mid-June to August. Dog sledding runs from January to April, and the northern lights are visible from September to April. A lower price in a different season is not a saving if the thing you are travelling for is not happening then.
Flexible dates give you more departures to compare, but the comparison still has to be between trips with broadly the same content. Summer and winter are not two prices for the same Greenland trip; they can be two different trips.
Per person and per group are not the same thing
Some offers are quoted per person and others for the whole party. With a group price, check how many participants it assumes before setting it against a per-person figure. The composition of the group can change too, and with it the amount per head, even when the group price has not moved.
The private tours in the table above are the clearest case. That private glacier cruise at 14,940 DKK is expensive for two and reasonable for six, and it is exactly the same price. An offer should therefore always carry an explicit participant count, and it is worth asking whether the price holds if the group grows or shrinks.
This matters most when a single package sum is compared against several separate bookings. A package can cover both shared and individual services, while separate prices may be calculated on different principles. Break the package down by content before drawing a conclusion.
How we would compare two offers
Start by making sure the two offers describe the same trip. The same number of days is not enough. Destinations, transport legs, nights and activities all have to line up reasonably well.
We would work through each offer in this order:
- Which international transport is included?
- Where in Greenland does the included journey start and end?
- Are all the necessary domestic legs covered?
- How many nights are included, and what room type is the price based on?
- Which meals are included?
- Which activities are included, and how long do they last?
- Are guiding and equipment inside the activity price?
- Are prices quoted per person or per group?
- What does a single room or single cabin cost?
- Which date is the offer calculated for?
Then build a simple sheet with one line per component. If an offer has no price for a necessary transport leg or a wanted activity, leave that cell empty. That is better than dropping in an unfounded number and later treating the total as solid.
Watch in particular for the words "from", "per person" and "based on two sharing". They are not problems in themselves, but they describe assumptions. This whole page is built from "from" prices, which is exactly why we give ranges and dates rather than single figures.
Fewer transport legs make the budget easier to read
If you want the budget to stay simple, the number of destinations is the place to start. The domestic table shows why: each additional town can add 1,900 to 3,100 DKK per person before a single night is booked. A trip based in one place is not automatically cheap, but it has fewer transport lines in the accounts than a trip with several stops.
The same goes for the activity programme. It is better to prioritise the experiences that are the reason for the trip than to load a budget with a long list of unconfirmed prices. Ask for quotes on the specific tours, then see what is left.
The short answer
On what was published on 3 August 2026, a Greenland trip looks like this in round numbers. A week in Ilulissat with flights from Copenhagen was on sale from around 15,000 DKK per person at Danish agencies. An eight-day guided Disko Bay circuit ran between 27,000 and 34,000 DKK, and a full twelve-day round trip about 41,000 DKK. If you assemble the trip yourself, reckon on 5,400 to 8,000 DKK for the flight from Copenhagen, 1,900 to 3,100 DKK for each domestic leg, roughly 1,200 to 2,800 DKK a night for a hotel room, and 800 to 3,000 DKK for each day tour you want to join.
That is not a budget and it is not our price. It is what other people published on one particular day. Use it to decide whether a specific offer sits inside the normal range, then get the whole route priced with a clear list of inclusions and a date on it.
Last reviewed August 3, 2026
