Nuuk International Airport

Nuuk International Airport (GOH/BGGH) is in Nuuk, GL, 86 m above sea level. It has 1 runway and the longest is 2,200 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
GOH · BGGH
City
Nuuk
Country
GL
Coordinates
64.1911, -51.6791
Elevation
86 m · 283 ft
Time zone
America/Nuuk
Local time now
13:24
Airspace
Nuuk
Departures observed
9 · 3 arrivals

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (4)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
07:14GRL590DH8B · OY-GRG
08:06GRL425DH8B · OY-GRH
13:44GRL443DH8B · OY-GRH
15:31GL913EC55 · OY-HUT

Landed (3)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
10:27GRL1282DH8B · OY-GRH
11:40GRL1779A338 · OY-GKNCPH
13:54VM767C560 · 166767YYT

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (1)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
04/222,200 m · 7,217 ftasphalt40°* · 220°*

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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