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Thirdtrail

by thirdtrailversion 1.0.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud
Registry nameio.github.thirdtrail/thirdtrail

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Elevation-corrected sun, moon, twilight, solar and tide data for any point on Earth

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What you can do with it

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  • Connection: Runs in the cloud
  • Transport: Streamable HTTP
  • Category: Other
  • You need to fill in: Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

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This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http thirdtrail https://thirdtrail.life/mcp --header 'Authorization: your-value'

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "thirdtrail": {
      "url": "https://thirdtrail.life/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "thirdtrail": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://thirdtrail.life/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

  • Authorization secret required HTTP header
    Your thirdtrail API key as 'Bearer tt_live_…'. Mint one at https://thirdtrail.life/apis/keys/. The MCP server requires a paid plan; the REST API has a free tier.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 9, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

  • get_sun_moon_times

    Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, civil, nautical and astronomical twilight, golden and blue hour, moonrise, moonset and moon phase for a location, one entry per day. Use it for any question about when the sun or moon rises, sets or gets dark; for the sun's angle at a given moment use

  • get_prayer_times

    Fajr, sunrise, dhuhr, asr, maghrib and isha for one date at a location, elevation-corrected. Use it for Islamic prayer schedules; for general sunrise, sunset and twilight use get_sun_moon_times. school is required and sets the fajr and isha rules; asr_method picks the shadow rule

  • get_solar_position

    The sun's position at one instant: azimuth, altitude, zenith, declination, hour angle and equation of time, plus clear-sky irradiance (GHI, DNI and DHI in W/m²) when include asks for it and the plan covers it. Use it for where the sun is at a given moment; for its track through a

  • get_solar_path

    The sun's azimuth and altitude through one UTC day, sampled every interval: a list of timestamped positions. Use it for shading studies, PV siting and panel-angle planning; for a single instant use get_solar_position. date defaults to today and interval to 15m. Requires an API ke

  • get_daily_light_integral

    Clear-sky Daily Light Integral in mol/m²/day for each day in a range: photosynthetically active radiation integrated from sunrise to sunset. Use it to plan crop growth or supplemental greenhouse lighting; it assumes cloudless skies, so treat it as the ceiling for the site. Pass f

  • get_tide_extremes

    High and low water times and heights at any coastal point, from the FES2022 global tide atlas: a list of events, each with type (high or low), time and height_m. Use it for when high or low tide is; for a continuous curve use get_tide_heights, and for tides together with sunrise,

  • get_tide_heights

    Water height at a coastal point at a fixed step: a list of time and height_m pairs. Use it to plot a tide curve or read the height at a particular time; for just the highs and lows use get_tide_extremes. Metres relative to mean sea level, not chart datum. Defaults: from today, 2

  • get_tide_window

    Per day: high and low waters together with sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour, twilight and moon phase in a single call. The planning tool for coastal photography, fishing and shore work; use it instead of calling get_tide_extremes and get_sun_moon_times separately. Pass eleva

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 9, 2026

  • ✓ Pass

    Maker matches the repo

    The registry name was verified with the GitHub account thirdtrail, which owns the repo

  • … Not checked yet

    Still maintained

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • … Not checked yet

    Has a licence

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • ✓ Pass

    Endpoint responds

    Responded in 315 ms (HTTP 200)

  • – Not applicable

    Sign-in with OAuth

    No sign-in needed

  • ✓ Pass

    No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

    Read 8 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Otheri

  • More stars than 0% of the other 18676 servers in this category
  • Published to the registry more recently than 49% of the other 18676 servers in this category
  • Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 18676 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is Thirdtrail safe?

It passed 3 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.0.0) reached the registry 2 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

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thirdtrail

Python client for the thirdtrail APIs: sun, moon, twilight, solar irradiance and tides for any point on Earth. Sun and moon times are corrected for the elevation you pass in.

pip install thirdtrail
from thirdtrail import Client

tt = Client(api_key="tt_live_…")

for day in tt.ephemerides(lat=53.3498, lon=-6.2603, elevation=20): print(day.date, day.sun.rise, day.sun.set)

Why elevation

Most sunrise APIs answer for an observer standing at sea level. The higher you are, the further you can see, and the earlier the sun clears the horizon.

At the Cliffs of Moher (214 m) the difference is about three minutes, and it moves sunrise, sunset and every golden- and blue-hour boundary with them:

sea levelat 214 m
sunrise07:23:3307:20:25
golden hour, morning start06:56:5106:53:42
moonrise18:03:4817:59:40

Golden hour lasts 20 to 40 minutes, so three minutes is a noticeable share of it. Pass elevation whenever you know it.

What you get

day.sun.rise                        # datetime, with its timezone offset intact

day.sun.golden_hour.morning.start day.moon.phase.name # "Waxing Gibbous" day.moon.phase.illumination # 0.7376

Timestamps arrive as aware datetime objects, not strings. Anything the client does not model is still available on day.raw and day.response, so you can use a new server-side field before the client catches up.

Endpoints

tt.ephemerides(lat=…, lon=…, elevation=…, days=7)     # sun + moon + twilight

tt.prayer_times(lat=…, lon=…, school="mwl") # five daily prayers tt.solar(lat=…, lon=…, timestamp=…) # position + irradiance tt.solar_path(lat=…, lon=…, interval="5m") # the sun's arc, sampled tt.solar_dli(lat=…, lon=…, from_date=…, to_date=…) # Daily Light Integral tt.tide_heights(lat=…, lon=…, step="10m") # water height series tt.tide_extremes(lat=…, lon=…) # high and low waters tt.tide_window(lat=…, lon=…, elevation=…) # tides + sun + moon tt.tide_constituents(lat=…, lon=…) # harmonic constants

Tides take no elevation, with one exception

tide_heights and tide_extremes have no elevation parameter on purpose, because how high *you* stand doesn't change the ocean surface. If you pass one, you get a TypeError instead of having it silently ignored.

tide_window is the exception, because half of what it returns is sun and moon data:

for day in tt.tide_window(lat=52.9715, lon=-9.4309, elevation=214, days=3):

print(day.date, day.sun.golden_hour.morning.start) for t in day.low_waters: print(" low water", t.time, t.height_m)

Tide heights are metres relative to mean sea level, not chart datum, and they exclude weather-driven surge. Not for navigation.

Errors

Each kind of failure has its own exception class, so you can catch the one you care about instead of parsing error messages:

from thirdtrail import PlanLimitExceeded

try: tt.tide_extremes(lat=51.5, lon=-2.7, days=90) except PlanLimitExceeded as e: tt.tide_extremes(lat=51.5, lon=-2.7, days=e.limit) # e.limit == 31

AuthenticationError (401), PermissionDenied (403, a tier you are not on), PlanLimitExceeded and InvalidRequest (400), RateLimited (429), DataUnavailable (503), ServerError (5xx). All subclass ThirdtrailError.

Transient failures and 429s are retried with backoff. Plan limits are not retried, because the same request would fail the same way every time.

Keys

Create one at thirdtrail.life/apis/keys/. A key belongs to one subscription, so it works with one API; a Tides key calling a solar endpoint gets PermissionDenied.

Every API has a free tier.

Not covered yet

The client doesn't cover the bulk (POST) endpoints, iCalendar feeds or webhook management yet. For those, call the REST API directly; the full contract is published as OpenAPI 3.1.

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Licence

MIT

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