Best places for vitamin D in July

These sea-holiday destinations give the most vitamin D from sun in July, 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	Mindelo	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	28°C
2	Morocco	Agadir	Excellent	9.4 h	6 min	25°C
3	Bermuda	St. George's	Excellent	9.4 h	6 min	27°C
4	Alabama (USA)	Gulf Shores	Excellent	9.0 h	6 min	31°C
5	Portugal	Albufeira	Excellent	9.5 h	7 min	31°C
6	Hawaii (USA)	Honolulu	Excellent	9.1 h	6 min	29°C
7	Israel	Caesarea	Excellent	9.2 h	7 min	32°C
8	Aruba	Oranjestad	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	31°C
9	Curaçao	Willemstad	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	32°C
10	Spain	Benidorm	Excellent	9.5 h	7 min	31°C
11	Greece	Lefkada	Excellent	9.5 h	7 min	32°C
12	California (USA)	Santa Barbara	Excellent	9.3 h	7 min	23°C
13	Malta	Valletta	Excellent	9.7 h	6 min	34°C
14	Turks and Caicos Islands	Grand Turk	Excellent	9.0 h	6 min	29°C
15	Saint Barthélemy	Colombier	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	29°C
16	Anguilla	Sandy Ground	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	29°C
17	U.S. Virgin Islands	Charlotte Amalie	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	29°C
18	South Carolina (USA)	Charleston	Excellent	8.8 h	7 min	31°C
19	Italy	Sorrento	Excellent	9.4 h	7 min	32°C
20	Cyprus	Protaras	Excellent	9.5 h	7 min	33°C
21	Albania	Ksamil	Excellent	9.3 h	7 min	33°C
22	North Carolina (USA)	Kitty Hawk	Excellent	8.6 h	7 min	30°C
23	Saint Martin	Grand Case	Excellent	8.9 h	6 min	29°C
24	Montenegro	Budva	Excellent	9.6 h	7 min	32°C
25	France	Antibes	Excellent	9.4 h	7 min	30°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 July

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

Too hot: Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, Vietnam, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Florida (USA), Georgia (USA), Mississippi (USA)

Too cold: South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Peru, Oregon (USA)

Bad weather: Gambia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, China, Taiwan, Samoa, Palau, Guam, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Sint Maarten, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela

Best places for vitamin D in July

Not recommended in July

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