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Sunshine Atlas MCP Server

com.sunshineatlas/sunshine-atlas
answering

Sunshine Atlas is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Where is it sunny? Monthly sunshine scores, temps, rain, UV and sea temp for 3,833 destinations.

Uptime history 41 hours of history
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
221 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

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

compare
compare_destinations
Side-by-side sunshine/climate comparison of 2–5 destinations — overall or for one month ("Algarve or Crete in October?"). Returns each place's Sunshine Score, temperatures, rain, midday UV index and sea temperature, plus a one-line verdict of which is sunnier.
destination
get_destination_climate
Full climate card for one destination: 0–100 Sunshine Score, day/night °C, rainfall, midday UV index (WHO scale) and sea temperature for all 12 months, plus its sunniest month ("best time to visit" for sunshine), annual sunshine hours and peak midday UV. Accepts a city name ("Faro"), "city, country" ("Nice, France") or IATA airport code ("FAO").
sunny
find_sunny_destinations
Ranked answer to "where is it sunny (and warm) in <month>?" — destinations sorted by that month's 0–100 Sunshine Score (long-term climate normals). Filter by continent or country, minimum daytime temperature, population, swimmable sea (≥21°C), or a ceiling on the midday UV index. Every result carries that month's temperatures, rain, midday UV (WHO scale) and sea temperature, plus a citable thesunshinemap.com URL.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://sunshineatlas.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 255 ms 10 min ago

Sunshine Atlas — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Sunshine Atlas do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_destinations, find_sunny_destinations, get_destination_climate. 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 Sunshine 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 221 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Sunshine Atlas?
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 Sunshine Atlas need an API key?
No. Sunshine 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 Sunshine Atlas?
It answers our handshake in 221 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.