Beachmap — Europe Beach Data

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