Best places for vitamin D in February

These sea-holiday destinations give the most vitamin D from sun in February, 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	Peru	Lima	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	28°C
2	Maldives	Maafushi	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	29°C
3	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Union Island	Excellent	8.1 h	6 min	27°C
4	Venezuela	Isla Margarita	Excellent	8.2 h	6 min	29°C
5	Nicaragua	Corn Islands	Excellent	7.8 h	6 min	27°C
6	Colombia	Santa Marta	Excellent	7.9 h	6 min	31°C
7	Trinidad and Tobago	Buccoo Reef	Excellent	8.2 h	6 min	30°C
8	Cape Verde	Boa Vista	Excellent	7.9 h	7 min	26°C
9	South Africa	Plettenberg Bay	Excellent	8.5 h	7 min	25°C
10	India	Kovalam	Excellent	8.2 h	6 min	33°C
11	Costa Rica	Tamarindo	Excellent	8.3 h	6 min	34°C
12	Thailand	Phuket	Excellent	8.2 h	6 min	33°C
13	Kenya	Diani Beach	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	31°C
14	Grenada	Grand Anse Beach	Excellent	8.1 h	6 min	28°C
15	Barbados	Bathsheba	Excellent	8.0 h	7 min	29°C
16	Uruguay	Colonia del Sacramento	Excellent	8.3 h	7 min	29°C
17	Curaçao	Jan Thiel	Excellent	7.9 h	7 min	30°C
18	Myanmar	Chaungtha	Excellent	7.9 h	7 min	31°C
19	Gambia	Kololi	Excellent	7.8 h	7 min	31°C
20	Belize	Great Blue Hole	Excellent	7.5 h	7 min	27°C
21	Sri Lanka	Bentota	Excellent	8.2 h	6 min	31°C
22	Saint Lucia	Anse Chastanet	Excellent	7.9 h	7 min	30°C
23	Jamaica	Montego Bay	Excellent	7.3 h	7 min	28°C
24	New Zealand	Mount Maunganui	Excellent	8.2 h	7 min	24°C
25	Aruba	Oranjestad	Excellent	8.0 h	7 min	29°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 February

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

Too hot: Malaysia

Too cold: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Malta, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Israel, Japan, China, Taiwan, Australia, Bermuda, California (USA), Texas (USA), South Carolina (USA), North Carolina (USA), Georgia (USA), Alabama (USA), Mississippi (USA), Virginia (USA), Maryland (USA), Delaware (USA), New Jersey (USA), New York (USA), Massachusetts (USA), Rhode Island (USA), Maine (USA), Oregon (USA)

Bad weather: Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Fiji, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, New Caledonia, Palau, Guam, Brazil, Ecuador

Best places for vitamin D in February

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