noaa-marine-mcp-server

An MCP server that provides tools to find NOAA CO-OPS tide stations and NDBC buoys, and fetch tide predictions, water levels, tidal currents, and live buoy conditions. It supports STDIO or Streamable HTTP transports and includes agent skills for guidance on station usage and data interpretation.

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What you can do with it

Find coastal tide stations and NDBC buoys by location or name
Fetch high/low tide predictions for specific stations
Retrieve live buoy conditions including waves and wind
Get observed water levels and tidal current predictions

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.7.1

mcp-registry: io.github.cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server@0.7.1 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

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@cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server 0.7.1

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@cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server package definition

{
  "version": "0.7.1",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "NOAA_APPLICATION_ID",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "noaa-marine-mcp-server",
      "description": "Courtesy identifier sent as application= on CO-OPS requests. Defaults to noaa-marine-mcp-server."
    },
    {
      "name": "NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "true",
      "description": "Clamp a limit above its cap (1000 rows on the series tools, 200 stations on noaa_marine_find_stations) to the cap with a notice. Set false to advertise and enforce each cap as a schema maximum instead."
    },
    {
      "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "info",
      "description": "Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noaa-marine-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server@0.7.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOAA_APPLICATION_ID": "<YOUR_NOAA_APPLICATION_ID>",
        "NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS": "<YOUR_NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noaa-marine-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server@0.7.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOAA_APPLICATION_ID": "<YOUR_NOAA_APPLICATION_ID>",
        "NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS": "<YOUR_NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "noaa-marine-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server@0.7.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOAA_APPLICATION_ID": "<YOUR_NOAA_APPLICATION_ID>",
        "NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS": "<YOUR_NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noaa-marine-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/noaa-marine-mcp-server@0.7.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOAA_APPLICATION_ID": "<YOUR_NOAA_APPLICATION_ID>",
        "NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS": "<YOUR_NOAA_CLAMP_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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