Best places for vitamin D in November

These sea-holiday destinations give the most vitamin D from sun in November, 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	Máncora	Excellent	8.6 h	6 min	28°C
2	Madagascar	Antsiranana	Excellent	8.9 h	6 min	33°C
3	Mozambique	Pemba	Excellent	8.8 h	6 min	32°C
4	Cook Islands	Avarua	Excellent	8.5 h	6 min	25°C
5	Mauritius	Le Morne Brabant	Excellent	8.4 h	6 min	29°C
6	Seychelles	Praslin	Excellent	8.3 h	6 min	28°C
7	New Caledonia	Bourail	Excellent	8.0 h	6 min	29°C
8	Ecuador	Montañita	Excellent	7.3 h	7 min	26°C
9	Uruguay	Cabo Polonio	Excellent	8.7 h	6 min	22°C
10	South Africa	St Lucia	Excellent	7.7 h	7 min	27°C
11	Cape Verde	Mindelo	Excellent	7.3 h	8 min	28°C
12	Brazil	Búzios	Excellent	6.9 h	7 min	27°C
13	Gambia	Serekunda	Excellent	7.3 h	8 min	33°C
14	Myanmar	Yangon	Good	6.6 h	9 min	31°C
15	Mexico	Mazatlán	Good	6.6 h	9 min	28°C
16	Oman	Muscat	Good	6.8 h	9 min	31°C
17	Anguilla	Sandy Ground	Good	6.9 h	8 min	28°C
18	Hawaii (USA)	Honolulu	Good	6.5 h	9 min	27°C
19	Saint Martin	Grand Case	Good	6.8 h	8 min	28°C
20	Bahamas	Paradise Island	Good	6.1 h	10 min	28°C
21	Cuba	Havana	Good	6.2 h	9 min	28°C
22	United Arab Emirates	Ras Al Khaimah	Good	6.3 h	10 min	31°C
23	Turks and Caicos Islands	Salt Cay	Good	6.2 h	9 min	28°C
24	Florida (USA)	Palm Beach	Good	5.8 h	10 min	26°C
25	China	Xiamen	Good	5.6 h	10 min	26°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 November

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

Too cold: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria, Australia, New Zealand, California (USA), South Carolina (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, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Fiji, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Palau, Guam, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Aruba, Curaçao, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Sint Maarten, Saint Barthélemy, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela

Best places for vitamin D in November

Not recommended in November

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