Beachmap — Europe Beach Data
Europe's 478 best beaches: sea temperature, sand, best months, swimming, surf. Free, CC BY 4.0.
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From the repo.
Beachmap MCP server
Remote Model Context Protocol server for Beachmap — 511 of Europe's best beaches across 31 countries, each with its sea-surface temperature (°C, from NOAA OISST), sand type, best months, swimming conditions, surf quality, setting and Blue Flag status.
Free, read-only, no key or account. Listed in the official MCP registry as com.europebeachmap/beachmap.
Endpoint
https://europebeachmap.com/mcp
Streamable HTTP transport, stateless, no authentication.
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http beachmap https://europebeachmap.com/mcp
Claude / ChatGPT / other clients with remote MCP support — add https://europebeachmap.com/mcp as a custom connector, or use the generic config:
{ "mcpServers": { "beachmap": { "type": "http", "url": "https://europebeachmap.com/mcp" } } }
Tools
| Tool | Does | Example question it answers |
|---|---|---|
search_beaches | Search + filter all beaches: free text, country, category, sand, Blue Flag, min sea temperature, month in season | "Blue Flag white-sand beaches with sea over 25°C" |
get_beach | Full profile of one beach by id or name | "Tell me about Ksamil Beaches" |
warmest_beaches | Beaches ranked by typical warm-season sea temperature | "Where is the sea warmest in Portugal in October?" |
beaches_best_in_month | Beaches whose best-time window includes a month | "Where should I go to the beach in October?" |
Run it yourself
The server reads the open Beachmap dataset from disk:
npm install
curl -o beaches.json https://europebeachmap.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: CC BY 4.0 — credit "Beachmap" and link to europebeachmap.com. Sea temperatures are the 30-year (1995–2024) mean mid-August SST from NOAA OISST v2.1 (public domain), sampled at each beach's nearest ocean cell.
- Dataset downloads: JSON · CSV · GeoJSON
- Docs page: europebeachmap.com/mcp-server
Citation:
Beach data: Beachmap (https://europebeachmap.com), CC BY 4.0
Config for your environment
Use the endpoint URL below in your config. No API key — you connect directly.
Tool
OS
Config file: ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server": {
"url": "https://europebeachmap.com/mcp"
}
}
}Paste into mcpServers in the config file. Restart Cursor after saving.
If this MCP is also published on mcpchannel.ai, you can subscribe from Browse and use the gateway config there instead.