Criora climate risk

Climate and disaster risk for any place on Earth, from open scientific data.

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What it can do

  • Find Place: Resolve a place name or address to coordinates, best match first. Useful when a name is ambiguous (several Springfields) and the right candidate must be chosen before calling another tool.
  • Get Forecast: This week's forecast at a place, and how risky the weather is each day. Per local day: minimum and maximum temperature, peak precipitation rate, peak wind, and the day's forecast risk cl
  • Get Climate Profile: Long-term climate exposure at a place: every climate layer on the Criora map, read there. Includes the latest full year of ERA5 reanalysis, a single year named in each layer's yea

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Climate and disaster risk for any place on Earth, from open scientific data. Ask about a city, an address or coordinates: get the 7-day weather risk, hazards happening nearby right now, long-term climate exposure to 2050 and 2080, and the country's disaster-risk profile, with sources cited.

Remote, free, no API key.

Tools

  • assess_place: everything about a place in one answer: forecast risk by day, nearby hazards, headline climate exposure and country risk
  • get_forecast: 7-day weather and weather risk (heat and cold stress, wind gusts, heavy rain, snow) by local day or step by step
  • get_climate_profile: long-term exposure: flood depth, sea level rise, extreme heat, warming to 2050/2080, drought, water stress
  • get_hazards_near: live wildfires, earthquakes, floods, tropical cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and air quality near a point
  • get_country_profile: a country's overall climate and disaster risk and its five dimensions, with ~160 indicators benchmarked against its region and the world
  • compare_countries: rank and compare 2 to 10 countries side by side
  • find_place: resolve a place name to coordinates

Prompts

  • assess_trip: weather and hazard risk for a trip on given dates
  • compare_places_to_live: long-term climate exposure of candidate places
  • country_briefing: a country's risk against regional and global benchmarks

Try asking

  • "Is it safe to travel to Dubai next week? Any heat or storm risk?"
  • "Compare flood and heat exposure of Lisbon, Valencia and Split by 2050."
  • "Which hazards threaten Bangladesh most, and how does it rank in South Asia?"
  • "Are there wildfires or earthquakes near Antalya right now?"

Data

INFORM Risk Index (EC JRC), ND-GAIN (Notre Dame), World Bank, CMIP6 projections, ECMWF ERA5, IPCC AR6 sea level, WRI Aqueduct, GloFAS, GDACS, NASA FIRMS, OpenAQ, and the ECCC GDPS weather model. Covers 194 countries.

Tip: pass latitude/longitude when you have them. Place-name lookups are limited to about one per second across all users.

More: criora.com · API and agents docs

How to connect

How to connect Criora climate risk to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://criora.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect Criora climate risk to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://criora.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect Criora climate risk to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://criora.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (7)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

find_placeResolve a place name or address to coordinates, best match first. Useful when a name is ambiguous (several Springfields) and the right candidate must be chosen before calling another tool. A city resolves to its centre as OpenStreetMap maps it. Geocoding by OpenStreetMap Nominatim, ODbL.
get_forecastThis week's forecast at a place, and how risky the weather is each day. Per local day: minimum and maximum temperature, peak precipitation rate, peak wind, and the day's forecast risk class with the hazard behind it (heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, freezing rain) and its physical reading (UTCI felt temperature, gust speed or rain rate). Steps are hourly for the first day, then 3-hourly, then 6-hourly to day seven, and each day gives its step_hours: from the fourth day the minimum and maximum are of 6-hourly steps, so the true peak can fall between two of them. A day marked partial is cut by the start or end of the window. With hourly=true, every step. Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada GDPS global model, read at its own 15 km cell containing the point.
get_climate_profileLong-term climate exposure at a place: every climate layer on the Criora map, read there. Includes the latest full year of ERA5 reanalysis, a single year named in each layer's year field rather than a multi-year normal (hottest day, coldest night, hot and frost day counts, wind, extreme rain days, UTCI), warming and rainfall change projected to 2050 and 2080 (CMIP6), sea level rise (IPCC AR6), coastal and river flood depth by scenario (WRI Aqueduct), water stress now and projected, drought (SPI), aridity, burned area, land cover, elevation, land subsidence and the Köppen climate zone. Every value names its source, year, unit, licence and the size of the cell it is read from.
get_hazards_nearDisasters and hazards happening now or recently near a place, most severe and most recent first. Wildfires (NASA FIRMS), earthquakes, floods, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions and droughts (GDACS), US National Weather Service flood, tropical cyclone and fire warnings, and air quality (OpenAQ reference monitors), with distance, bearing, severity and time. Radius defaults to a sensible distance per event type. At most 25 events are listed; total and counts_by_type cover every event found.
get_country_profileA country's climate and disaster risk from the Criora Atlas. Overall risk score and class, and scores for climate, nature, social, governance and adaptation, with the country's income group and region. With include_indicators=true, about 160 indicators (INFORM Risk Index, ND-GAIN, World Bank) each with its value, year, source and the world and regional medians it compares against. Scores run 0 to 100; higher means more risk.
compare_countriesSeveral countries side by side on overall risk and each risk dimension, with their ranks. Scores run 0 to 100; higher means more risk. Ranks are among all countries in the Criora Atlas, 1 being the highest risk.
assess_placeOne answer for a place: this week's forecast risk by day, hazard events nearby, the headline climate exposures (heat, flood, sea-level rise, water stress, drought, heavy rain, fire, climate zone) and the risk profile of the country it lies in. The best first call for a general question about a location; get_climate_profile has every climate layer.