tide-times-tide-tables-mcp

Tide times and tide tables for AI assistants. Ask for high and low tide times at a beach, harbor or NOAA station and get NOAA's predicted times and heights, whether the tide is coming in or going out right now, and the low tides that suit tide pooling or clamming.

This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It reads NOAA CO-OPS tide predictions at call time for about 3,000 US stations, including Alaska, Hawaii and US territories, and needs no API key.

Tools

Every result has structured JSON, a plain-text summary, as_of, source and more (a page on mcpstamp.com). Every tool is marked read-only.

Related MCP server: BC Water Tides MCP Server

What it knows that your model does not

• Today's tide times. Tides shift by about 50 minutes a day, so a remembered table is wrong by tomorrow.

• Which NOAA station is nearest to a beach or town, by station name or by geocoding the place.

• Station local time, including US daylight time, so 'today' and 'now' mean the station's day.

Install

Hosted (Claude.ai custom connector, ChatGPT developer mode)

Paste this URL. No token, no sign-up.

https://tide-times-tide-tables-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http tide-times https://tide-times-tide-tables-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop adds remote servers under Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector. Paste the URL above.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tide-times": { "url": "https://tide-times-tide-tables-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to .vscode/mcp.json.

{
  "servers": {
    "tide-times": { "type": "http", "url": "https://tide-times-tide-tables-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Local stdio

The npm package is not published. Build it from this repository with Node 20 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/tide-times-tide-tables-mcp && cd tide-times-tide-tables-mcp
npm install && npm run build
claude mcp add tide-times -- node $(pwd)/dist/stdio.js

Example prompts

• "What are the tide times in Santa Cruz today?"

• "Is the tide coming in or going out at Golden Gate right now?"

• "When is the next low tide below zero in Monterey for tide pooling?"

• "Give me a tide table for Cape May, NJ for the next week."

• "Find the NOAA tide station nearest Bar Harbor."

Data sources

Full list in DATA_SOURCES.md.

• NOAA CO-OPS tide predictions (high/low, MLLW datum, station local time).

• NOAA CO-OPS station list.

• Open-Meteo geocoding to turn a place name into a position.

Limitations

• Predictions, not observed water levels. Wind, pressure and river flow move the real tide.

• US stations only (NOAA CO-OPS coverage).

• Heights are above mean lower low water (MLLW). The current height in tide_now is interpolated between predicted highs and lows.

• The hosted server caches predictions for up to 6 hours and the station list for a day.

More

More MCP servers that answer questions your assistant cannot answer alone are on mcpstamp.com.

Part of the Zovo MCP collection at https://mcp.zovo.one

Built by theluckystrike.

Development

npm install
npm test                              # builds, then runs the fixture tests and an offline stdio test
node scripts/stdio-transcript.mjs     # live stdio round trip, writes .live/stdio-transcript.jsonl

CI (.github/workflows/bundle.yml) runs the tests, the type check and wrangler deploy --dry-run --outdir out, and uploads the Worker bundle as an artifact.

License

MIT