Beachmap MCP server
Remote Model Context Protocol server for World Beach Map — beaches worldwide from Wikidata, each with twelve monthly sea-surface temperatures from NOAA OISST v2.1, its shore type, its Wikipedia article and its photograph credit.
Free, read-only, no key or account. Listed in the official MCP registry as com.europebeachmap/beachmap — the namespace keeps the site's former domain, because a registry namespace is bound to the name it was verified under and cannot be renamed. The old endpoint, https://europebeachmap.com/mcp, therefore keeps answering rather than redirecting: a JSON-RPC client reads a 301 as a protocol error, not as a new address.
Endpoint
https://beachmapworld.com/mcp
Streamable HTTP transport, stateless, no authentication.
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http beachmap https://beachmapworld.com/mcp
Claude / ChatGPT / other clients with remote MCP support — add https://beachmapworld.com/mcp as a custom connector, or use the generic config:
{ "mcpServers": { "beachmap": { "type": "http", "url": "https://beachmapworld.com/mcp" } } }
Tools
Run it yourself
The server reads the open Beachmap dataset from disk:
npm install
curl -o beaches.json https://beachmapworld.com/data/beaches.json
BEACHES_PATH=./beaches.json PORT=8765 node server.mjs
# MCP endpoint on http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcp
Data & licence
- Code: MIT (this repository).
- Data: beach records from Wikidata (CC0), sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1 (public domain). A credit and a link to beachmapworld.com are appreciated, not required. Each beach carries twelve monthly means (the 1991–2020 long-term monthly mean), sampled at the nearest grid cell that is open water in all twelve months.
- Dataset downloads: JSON · CSV · GeoJSON
Citation:
Beach data: Beachmap (https://beachmapworld.com), Wikidata CC0 · NOAA public domain