NOAA tides and currents: water levels, tide predictions, currents, met data, flooding, sun and moon
NOAA tides and currents: water levels, tide predictions, currents, met data, flooding, sun and moon. That is what the noaa mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
Water levels · tide predictions · currents · marine weather · station metadata · tidal datums · harmonic constituents · sea level trends & projections · high tide flooding · sun & moon calculations
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
noaa_get_water_levels — Observed water levels: 1-minute, 6-minute, or hourly series, preliminary/verified quality flags decodednoaa_get_water_level_summaries — high_low (HH/H/L/LL daily extremes), daily_mean (Great Lakes), daily_max_min, monthly_mean datum tablesnoaa_get_tide_predictions — Harmonic tide predictions — hilo high/low events (up to 10 years) or interval seriesnoaa_get_currents — Observed current speed/direction by depth bin (ADCP), optional beam diagnosticsnoaa_get_current_predictions — Predicted currents — max_slack flood/ebb/slack events or interval seriesnoaa_get_meteorological_data — Wind, air/water temperature, pressure, air gap (bridge clearance), conductivity, visibility, humidity, salinitynoaa_search_stations — Search the station directory by capability type, name substring, state — paginatednoaa_find_nearest_stations — Nearest stations to any lat/lon (great-circle, cached directory), filterable by typenoaa_get_station_info — Full station record with expandable sensors, flood levels, benchmarks, bins, deployments..noaa_get_station_datums — Tidal datum elevations (MLLW, MSL, MHHW, NAVD88...), HAT/LAT, historic extremes, current or superseded epochnoaa_get_harmonic_constituents — The M2/S2/K1/... constituents behind a station's predictions (water level or current ellipse form)noaa_get_prediction_offsets — Subordinate-station time/height offsets from their reference stations (tide or current)Plenty of file and storage access servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Noaa's toolset — noaa_get_water_levels, noaa_get_water_level_summaries, noaa_get_tide_predictions and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by RyanCardin15; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| noaa_get_water_levels | Observed water levels: 1-minute, 6-minute, or hourly series, preliminary/verified quality flags decoded |
| noaa_get_water_level_summaries | high_low (HH/H/L/LL daily extremes), daily_mean (Great Lakes), daily_max_min, monthly_mean datum tables |
| noaa_get_tide_predictions | Harmonic tide predictions — hilo high/low events (up to 10 years) or interval series |
| noaa_get_currents | Observed current speed/direction by depth bin (ADCP), optional beam diagnostics |
| noaa_get_current_predictions | Predicted currents — max_slack flood/ebb/slack events or interval series |
| noaa_get_meteorological_data | Wind, air/water temperature, pressure, air gap (bridge clearance), conductivity, visibility, humidity, salinity |
| noaa_search_stations | Search the station directory by capability type, name substring, state — paginated |
| noaa_find_nearest_stations | Nearest stations to any lat/lon (great-circle, cached directory), filterable by type |
| noaa_get_station_info | Full station record with expandable sensors, flood levels, benchmarks, bins, deployments... |
| noaa_get_station_datums | Tidal datum elevations (MLLW, MSL, MHHW, NAVD88...), HAT/LAT, historic extremes, current or superseded epoch |
| noaa_get_harmonic_constituents | The M2/S2/K1/... constituents behind a station's predictions (water level or current ellipse form) |
| noaa_get_prediction_offsets | Subordinate-station time/height offsets from their reference stations (tide or current) |
| noaa_get_sea_level_trends | Long-term relative sea level trend with error bars and observation period |
| noaa_get_sea_level_rise_projections | 2022 Interagency SLR scenario projections per decade through 2150 |
{
"mcpServers": {
"noaa-tides-and-currents": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "npx"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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