Best places for vitamin D in March

These sea-holiday destinations give the most vitamin D from sun in March, 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	8.6 h	6 min	26°C
2	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Union Island	Excellent	8.6 h	6 min	27°C
3	Venezuela	Los Roques Archipelago	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	27°C
4	Cape Verde	Santa Maria	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	26°C
5	Curaçao	Willemstad	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	31°C
6	Aruba	Oranjestad	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	30°C
7	Maldives	Addu Atoll	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	29°C
8	U.S. Virgin Islands	Charlotte Amalie	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	26°C
9	Anguilla	Sandy Ground	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	26°C
10	Saint Barthélemy	Colombier	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	26°C
11	British Virgin Islands	Jost Van Dyke	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	26°C
12	Sint Maarten	Mullet Bay	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	27°C
13	Honduras	Utila	Excellent	8.3 h	6 min	28°C
14	Saint Martin	Grand Case	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	26°C
15	Colombia	Santa Marta	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	32°C
16	Gambia	Serekunda	Excellent	8.3 h	6 min	31°C
17	Nicaragua	Popoyo	Excellent	8.6 h	6 min	34°C
18	Belize	San Pedro Town	Excellent	8.2 h	6 min	27°C
19	Grenada	Grand Anse Beach	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	29°C
20	Turks and Caicos Islands	Salt Cay	Excellent	8.1 h	7 min	26°C
21	Myanmar	Ngapali	Excellent	8.3 h	6 min	32°C
22	Saint Lucia	Castries	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	30°C
23	Vietnam	Phú Quốc	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	32°C
24	Trinidad and Tobago	Pigeon Point	Excellent	8.6 h	6 min	30°C
25	Barbados	Bathsheba	Excellent	8.5 h	6 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 March

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, Israel, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, California (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: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, New Caledonia, Palau, Guam, Cayman Islands, Brazil

Best places for vitamin D in March

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