mcpbeat Sign in

Time & Astronomy MCP Server

answering

Time & Astronomy is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Current time by timezone, astronomy events, and moon phases

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 97%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
423 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Time & Astronomy missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add time --transport http https://time.memoryapi.org/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "url": "https://time.memoryapi.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.time]
url = "https://time.memoryapi.org/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "url": "https://time.memoryapi.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "url": "https://time.memoryapi.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

astronomy
get_astronomy
Get sunrise, sunset, and twilight times for any location using US Naval Observatory data. Also returns moonrise and moonset.
current
get_current_time
Get the current time in any timezone. Returns local datetime, UTC datetime, unix epoch, UTC offset, DST status, day of week, day of year, and week number.
moon
get_moon_phases
Get upcoming moon phases (New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Last Quarter) and current moon illumination percentage from the US Naval Observatory.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://time.memoryapi.org/mcp streamable-http answering 416 ms 12 min ago

Alternatives to Time & Astronomy

same job, measured the same way
Usno Astronomy
by pipeworx-io

Next solar eclipse, eclipse times by location, Moon phases and seasons from the US Naval…

40 tools answering
Snowsignals
by snowsignals

Market-phase classifications over a metered API — phase events per currency and timeframe.

8 tools answering
Astronomy MCP Server
by cyanheads

Offline observational astronomy: positions, rise/set, moon phases, eclipses, and seasons.

93 installs/wk 7 tools answering
Timezone Clock
by sadri-dridi

Current time in a named IANA timezone.

29 tools answering
Timeapi Io
by pipeworx-io

Keyless time/timezone: current, by IP/coords, conversion, DST, list zones.

40 tools answering
IPGeolocation.io MCP Server
by ipgeolocation

Official MCP server for IP geolocation, security, ASN, abuse, timezone, astronomy, and user-agent.

111 installs/wk local only
Asia/Phnom_Penh clock
by sadri-dridi

Current local time in Asia/Phnom_Penh.

30 tools answering
Time
by worldclock

A real clock for AI agents: current time, timezone conversion, and DST facts from the IANA tzdb.

5 tools answering

Time & Astronomy — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Time & Astronomy do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_astronomy, get_current_time, get_moon_phases. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Time & Astronomy working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 423 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Time & Astronomy?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Time & Astronomy need an API key?
No. Time & Astronomy completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Time & Astronomy?
It answers our handshake in 423 ms on average, which is faster than 35% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.