Best places for vitamin D in April

These sea-holiday destinations give the most vitamin D from sun in April, for light to medium skin (type III) at age 30. The ranking uses midday UV, clouds, heat and rain, and leaves out places that are too hot, too cold or in their rainy or storm season.

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#	Country	Best place	Rating	Sun window	Full dose	Afternoon high
1	Cape Verde	Santa Maria	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	28°C
2	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Mustique	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	28°C
3	Aruba	San Nicolaas	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	31°C
4	Honduras	Roatán	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	28°C
5	Venezuela	Isla Margarita	Excellent	8.6 h	6 min	30°C
6	Belize	Caye Caulker	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	28°C
7	Curaçao	Willemstad	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	32°C
8	Mexico	La Paz	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	30°C
9	Turks and Caicos Islands	Grace Bay	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	28°C
10	Gambia	Serekunda	Excellent	8.6 h	6 min	31°C
11	Cuba	Cienfuegos	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	31°C
12	Peru	Paracas	Excellent	8.2 h	6 min	28°C
13	Bahamas	Eleuthera	Excellent	8.6 h	6 min	27°C
14	Saint Lucia	Marigot Bay	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	31°C
15	Florida (USA)	St. Petersburg	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	28°C
16	Grenada	Grand Anse Beach	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	30°C
17	Sint Maarten	Cupecoy	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	27°C
18	Barbados	Speightstown	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	30°C
19	Trinidad and Tobago	Scarborough	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	30°C
20	Saint Barthélemy	Colombier	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	27°C
21	Cayman Islands	Seven Mile Beach	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	30°C
22	Anguilla	Shoal Bay	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	27°C
23	British Virgin Islands	Virgin Gorda	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	27°C
24	Colombia	Barranquilla	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	32°C
25	Saint Martin	Grand Case	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	27°C

Sun window is the number of hours a day with UV Index 2.5 or higher. Full dose is the minutes at midday to make about 1,000 IU of vitamin D.

Not recommended in April

Too hot, too cold, rainy season or peak storm season:

Too hot: Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, China, Nicaragua

Too cold: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Malta, Bulgaria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Zealand, Bermuda, Uruguay, California (USA), North Carolina (USA), Virginia (USA), Maryland (USA), Delaware (USA), New Jersey (USA), New York (USA), Massachusetts (USA), Rhode Island (USA), Maine (USA), Oregon (USA)

Bad weather: Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, Madagascar, Singapore, Indonesia, Maldives, Japan, Australia, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, New Caledonia, Palau, Guam, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Panama, Brazil, Hawaii (USA)

Best places for vitamin D in April

Not recommended in April

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