Spectacular Atlas MCP Server

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answering

Spectacular Atlas is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Light festivals, lantern festivals, drone shows and more worldwide, by trip dates, place and type

Uptime history 25 days of history

25 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

199 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 20 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten list_filters, search_events

20 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_events

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Spectacular Atlas every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add events --transport http https://spectacularatlas.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://spectacularatlas.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.events]
url = "https://spectacularatlas.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "events": {
      "url": "https://spectacularatlas.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "events": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://spectacularatlas.com/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.

event

get_event

Full details of one spectacle by its id (from search_events): dates, status, place and coordinates, official website, the quoted source of its dates and when it was last checked.

events

search_events

Find spectacles worldwide (festivals, parades, light and drone shows, eccentric traditions) by trip dates, place, type and size. Returns up to `limit` events, soonest first (or nearest first when near_lat/near_lng are given), each with dates, status, place, type, size, description, official website and the event's page on spectacularatlas.com.

filters

list_filters

The types, sizes, regions and countries in the guide, with how many spectacles each has, and how many are venues and shows open all year (the year_round option of search_events).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://spectacularatlas.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	209 ms	11 min ago

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Spectacular Atlas — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Spectacular Atlas do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_event, list_filters, search_events. 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 Spectacular Atlas 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 199 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Spectacular Atlas?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Spectacular Atlas need an API key?

No. Spectacular Atlas 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 Spectacular Atlas?

It answers our handshake in 199 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.