Beachmap — Europe Beach Data
Europe's 478 best beaches: sea temperature, sand, best months, swimming, surf. Free, CC BY 4.0.
One address for any MCP client. No sign-in needed on this server.
What it does
2 read2 other
Grouped by tool name. At most: only reads or looks up information.
What it costs
FreeOdel charges nothing per call. The publisher may charge for its own service.
Tools
4 · grouped by tool name · checked 12 Oct 2026Read · 2Look things up
- search_beaches
- get_beach
Other · 2Neither hinted nor named
- warmest_beaches_in_month
- sea_temperature_year
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
