Product architecture

Climate data at the level your product needs.

Start with core climate normals. Add enriched metrics, textual context, and specialized outputs when your product requires more depth.

Core Climate Data

Available now

Reliable monthly and daily climate normals with clear metadata, units, station identity, and data coverage.

Temperature
  • · Average high
  • · Average low
  • · Mean temperature
  • · Average day-night range
Water and snow
  • · Precipitation
  • · Snowfall
  • · Wet days
  • · Snow days
Station context
  • · Stable station ID
  • · Location metadata
  • · Available data groups
  • · Coverage period
GET /v1/normals/monthly
GET /v1/normals/daily
View core endpoints →

MCP Access

Developer plan

Give Claude, Claude Code, or any other MCP client direct, structured access to historical climate data through the Model Context Protocol.

Find & explore
  • · Find a U.S. climate station by city name.
  • · Confirms what data exists for a station, so an agent doesn't guess.
Historical normals
  • · 1991-2020 monthly climate normals.
  • · 1991-2020 daily climate normals.
Climate context
  • · Long-term monthly averages with a written description.
  • · Koppen-Geiger climate classification.

Connect in your MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-climate-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.usclimatedata.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools

search_locations
station_capabilities
get_monthly_normals
get_daily_normals
get_monthly_climate
get_koppen_classification
See the tools in action → View setup instructions →

Extended Data Layer

Broader climate groups for integrations that require thresholds, distributions, snow, freeze, and degree-day context.

Advanced Access
Degree days
HDD
CDD
GDD

Heating, cooling, growing

Percentiles
75th

Precipitation and snow

Thresholds

32°F

Freeze, wet, snow days

Textual climate context

Turn climate data into ready-to-use text for websites and applications

Go beyond raw climate data with ready-to-use descriptions that can be integrated directly into property pages, destination content, applications, and location-based products.

“Los Angeles has a Mediterranean climate with warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters.”

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