# TravelCharika

> When to go and where to book: 87 places scored month by month from measured weather.

- name: com.travelcharika/travelcharika
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 82/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 95/100 (strong)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.travelcharika%2Ftravelcharika
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.travelcharika%2Ftravelcharika/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travelcharika": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://travelcharika.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 99
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-97% +updated-18d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 95/100 (strong)

### protocol: 100 (weight 25)

- pass `protocol.modern`: supports 2026-07-28 (server/discover)
- pass `protocol.stateless`: answers without a session
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- pass `protocol.list_ttl`: tool list is cacheable (ttlMs 3600000)

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 100 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 8 of 8 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- pass `tools.directory_hints`: every tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 3,108 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 75 (weight 15)

- warn `stability.changes`: 14 tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 8, about 3,108 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: 14a546143077d42da9589149e97410e5
- tools last changed: 2026-10-16T11:41:31.693Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/com.travelcharika/travelcharika.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/com.travelcharika/travelcharika)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-16 `country_facts` changed (description)
  - before: What to know about a country before going, as TravelCharika prints it: the currency, plug types and voltage, which side of the road they drive on, how expensive it is against the United States, the UK Foreign Office's travel advice with its link -- and beside it the US State Department's and Global Affairs Canada's, each in its own words with its level and link, for a reader from those countries -- and the places the site covers there with their best months. Then on arrival, put together by hand with its sources and the day it was checked: the ride-hailing, map and messaging apps people there use, how people pay (and whether India's UPI works for a visitor from India), each place's transit card, tipping, and the emergency numbers.
  - after: What to know about a country before going, as TravelCharika prints it: the currency, plug types and voltage, which side of the road they drive on, how expensive it is against the United States, the UK Foreign Office's travel advice with its link -- and beside it the US State Department's and Global Affairs Canada's, each in its own words with its level and link, for a reader from those countries -- and the places the site lists there with their best months. Then on arrival, put together by hand with its sources and the day it was checked: the ride-hailing, map and messaging apps people there use, how people pay (and whether India's UPI works for a visitor from India), each place's transit card, tipping, and the emergency numbers.
- 2026-10-16 `how_to_get_there` changed (description)
  - before: How to get from one of TravelCharika's departure cities to a place: the airlines that fly the route all year by Wikipedia's airport articles, nonstop or with the hub they change at and between which airports, each with its own booking page; the ways a record has (a year-round nonstop and its airlines, a road's distance and driving time); the distance and an estimated flight time; the airports that serve the place; and Wikivoyage's "Get in" for it where the site quotes one. Never a fare or a timetable: booking_links is where prices live.
  - after: How to get from one of TravelCharika's departure cities to a place: the airlines that fly the route all year by Wikipedia's airport articles, nonstop or with the hub they change at and between which airports, each with its own booking page (the ones that pay marked, with the disclosure); the ways a record has (a year-round nonstop and its airlines, a road's distance and driving time); the distance and an estimated flight time; the airports that serve the place; and Wikivoyage's "Get in" for it where the site quotes one. No timetable and no prices: the flight searches in booking_links find the day's flights.
- 2026-10-16 `booking_links` changed (description)
  - before: Where to book a trip to one place, as the place's page shows it to that reader: the booking sites people in the reader's own country use, in the order they know them (flights, a room, things to do, car hire, travel insurance, an eSIM for data), and the brands to book with directly (the airlines Wikipedia's airport articles show flying the route, hotel groups and luxury houses with a hotel there, car renters with a counter in its country), each address filled in for the place and the route. No address carries dates: each site opens on its own search. Some sites pay TravelCharika a commission, which never decides whether or where one is listed; show the result's disclosure with the links.
  - after: Where to book a trip to one place, as the place's page shows it to that reader: the booking sites people in the reader's own country use, in the order they know them (flights, a room, things to do, car hire, travel insurance, an eSIM for data), and the brands to book with directly (the airlines Wikipedia's airport articles show flying the route, hotel groups and luxury houses with a hotel there, car renters with a counter in its country), each address filled in for the place and the route. No address carries dates: each site opens on its own search. Some sites pay TravelCharika a commission, which never decides whether or where one is listed; show the result's disclosure with the links, and mark the ones that pay (`paid`) as "Ad".
- 2026-10-16 `events` added
  - The big events that fill a town -- festivals, carnivals, Christmas markets, races -- at the places TravelCharika lists, from this month on for a year: in one month, at one place, or all of them. Each with its dates as the site states them (confirmed by its own site; "expected" where they follow a rule its site has not yet confirmed; or when it usually falls), what it is, any closures its organiser names, its own site, and, given a departure city, how far it is from there in the site's words ("about 2h 05m by air from London"). A place under travel advice has none listed.
- 2026-10-16 `activities` added
  - Which places are good, or fair, for an activity in a month, as the site's activity pages say it: hiking (dry days of 10–27 °C), the beach and sea (warm dry days, a warm and calm sea), skiing (deep snow on the ski area's own slopes while its lifts run) or the northern lights (long dark nights under the auroral oval; cloud is not counted, so a good month is no forecast). The most visited first, each with the figure its month was decided on, and the activity's rules and sources in the site's own words. Without a month, how many places are good and fair in each month of the year. A place under travel advice is never listed.
- 2026-10-16 `best_months` changed (description, inputSchema)
  - before: When to go to one place: TravelCharika's verdict for each of the twelve months (sweet spot, good, ok or avoid) with its reason, scored from ten years of measured climate and the public holidays that crowd it; the typical daytime high, rainy days (what counts as one is in the answer's rainy_days_are: days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them), humidity and sunshine of each month; the sweet spot; and the verdict in one sentence, as the place's page says it. Fares are paused: no answer carries one. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one; `crowds` gives the busiest and quietest months as the page's graph of how busy it gets shows them, and how that is measured.
  - after: When to go to one place: TravelCharika's verdict for each of the twelve months (sweet spot, good, ok or avoid) with its reason, scored from ten years of measured climate and the public holidays that crowd it; the typical daytime high, rainy days (what counts as one is in the answer's rainy_days_are: days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them), humidity and sunshine of each month; the sweet spot; and the verdict in one sentence, as the place's page says it. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one; `crowds` gives the busiest and quietest months as the page's graph of how busy it gets shows them, and how that is measured. Given a departure city, how far the place is from it. A place under travel advice is answered with the advice first, as its page shows it.
- 2026-10-16 `where_to_go` added
  - Where is good to go in a month, as the site's list of places answers it: every place open that month, the most visited first (how often travellers look it up; the weather never moves a place up or down), narrowed by the filters given -- a region, a kind of place, what to do (hiking, the sea, snow), the weather in words, quiet only, and from a departure city how far (close by, 3 to 6 hours' flying, long-haul). Each place comes with its month as its card shows it: the site's label (sweet spot, good or ok), the weather word, the typical daytime high, rainy days, busy or quiet, and how far from the city given; with how many places fit, and the same list on the site with its filters set. A place under travel advice is never listed. For one place's twelve months, use best_months.
- 2026-10-16 `search_places` changed (description, inputSchema)
  - before: Find what TravelCharika has a page for, by name: places, countries, regions, kinds of place ("beaches"), trips, departure cities, comparisons, months and holidays. Matches as the site's own search box does: accents ignored, a name a place is also known by ("Bombay"), one letter off ("Marrakesh"), and a month among the words ("bali in may") gives that month's page. Returns each match's kind, name, the id the other tools take, and its page. Call it first whenever you have a name rather than an id; nothing matching gets the nearest names instead.
  - after: Find what TravelCharika has a page for, by name: places, countries, regions, kinds of place ("beaches"), activities ("skiing"), seasons, routes, departure cities, months and holidays. Matches as the site's own search box does: accents ignored, a name a place is also known by ("Bombay"), one letter off ("Marrakesh"), and a month among the words ("bali in may") gives that month's page. Returns each match's kind, name, the id the other tools take, and its page. A place under travel advice is found by its name with the advice beside it (`advice`), and is in no list. Call it first whenever you have a name rather than an id; nothing matching gets the nearest names instead.
- 2026-10-10 `best_months` changed (description, inputSchema)
  - before: When to go to one place: TravelCharika's verdict for each of the twelve months (sweet spot, good, ok or avoid) with its reason, scored from ten years of measured climate, the public holidays that crowd it and observed fares; the typical daytime high, rainy days (what counts as one is in the answer's rainy_days_are: days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them), humidity and sunshine of each month; the sweet spot; and the verdict in one sentence, as the place's page says it. Give from_city for the typical return fare from that city by month, in its own currency, where the site has seen fares. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one; `crowds` gives the busiest and quietest months as the page's graph of how busy it gets shows them, and how that is measured.
  - after: When to go to one place: TravelCharika's verdict for each of the twelve months (sweet spot, good, ok or avoid) with its reason, scored from ten years of measured climate and the public holidays that crowd it; the typical daytime high, rainy days (what counts as one is in the answer's rainy_days_are: days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them), humidity and sunshine of each month; the sweet spot; and the verdict in one sentence, as the place's page says it. Fares are paused: no answer carries one. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one; `crowds` gives the busiest and quietest months as the page's graph of how busy it gets shows them, and how that is measured.
- 2026-10-06 `compare_places` removed
  - Two places side by side, month by month: which is the better pick in each month (or either, or neither), the verdict in one sentence, how far apart they are and the ways between them a record has, and each country's practical facts. TravelCharika compares places in the same region; for two it does not compare, call best_months for each.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/com.travelcharika%2Ftravelcharika/changes

## Remotes

- https://travelcharika.com/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.9710145)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (8)

- `activities`: Which places are good, or fair, for an activity in a month, as the site's activity pages say it: hiking (dry days of 10–27 °C), the beach and sea (warm dry days, a warm and calm sea), skiing (deep snow on the ski area's own slopes while its lifts run) or the northern lights (long dark nights under the auroral oval; cloud is not counted, so a good month is no forecast). The most visited first, each with the figure its month was decided on, and the activity's rules and sources in the site's own words. Without a month, how many places are good and fair in each month of the year. A place under travel advice is never listed.
- `best_months`: When to go to one place: TravelCharika's verdict for each of the twelve months (sweet spot, good, ok or avoid) with its reason, scored from ten years of measured climate and the public holidays that crowd it; the typical daytime high, rainy days (what counts as one is in the answer's rainy_days_are: days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them), humidity and sunshine of each month; the sweet spot; and the verdict in one sentence, as the place's page says it. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one; `crowds` gives the busiest and quietest months as the page's graph of how busy it gets shows them, and how that is measured. Given a departure city, how far the place is from it. A place under travel advice is answered with the advice first, as its page shows it.
- `booking_links`: Where to book a trip to one place, as the place's page shows it to that reader: the booking sites people in the reader's own country use, in the order they know them (flights, a room, things to do, car hire, travel insurance, an eSIM for data), and the brands to book with directly (the airlines Wikipedia's airport articles show flying the route, hotel groups and luxury houses with a hotel there, car renters with a counter in its country), each address filled in for the place and the route. No address carries dates: each site opens on its own search. Some sites pay TravelCharika a commission, which never decides whether or where one is listed; show the result's disclosure with the links, and mark the ones that pay (`paid`) as "Ad".
- `country_facts`: What to know about a country before going, as TravelCharika prints it: the currency, plug types and voltage, which side of the road they drive on, how expensive it is against the United States, the UK Foreign Office's travel advice with its link -- and beside it the US State Department's and Global Affairs Canada's, each in its own words with its level and link, for a reader from those countries -- and the places the site lists there with their best months. Then on arrival, put together by hand with its sources and the day it was checked: the ride-hailing, map and messaging apps people there use, how people pay (and whether India's UPI works for a visitor from India), each place's transit card, tipping, and the emergency numbers.
- `events`: The big events that fill a town -- festivals, carnivals, Christmas markets, races -- at the places TravelCharika lists, from this month on for a year: in one month, at one place, or all of them. Each with its dates as the site states them (confirmed by its own site; "expected" where they follow a rule its site has not yet confirmed; or when it usually falls), what it is, any closures its organiser names, its own site, and, given a departure city, how far it is from there in the site's words ("about 2h 05m by air from London"). A place under travel advice has none listed.
- `how_to_get_there`: How to get from one of TravelCharika's departure cities to a place: the airlines that fly the route all year by Wikipedia's airport articles, nonstop or with the hub they change at and between which airports, each with its own booking page (the ones that pay marked, with the disclosure); the ways a record has (a year-round nonstop and its airlines, a road's distance and driving time); the distance and an estimated flight time; the airports that serve the place; and Wikivoyage's "Get in" for it where the site quotes one. No timetable and no prices: the flight searches in booking_links find the day's flights.
- `search_places`: Find what TravelCharika has a page for, by name: places, countries, regions, kinds of place ("beaches"), activities ("skiing"), seasons, routes, departure cities, months and holidays. Matches as the site's own search box does: accents ignored, a name a place is also known by ("Bombay"), one letter off ("Marrakesh"), and a month among the words ("bali in may") gives that month's page. Returns each match's kind, name, the id the other tools take, and its page. A place under travel advice is found by its name with the advice beside it (`advice`), and is in no list. Call it first whenever you have a name rather than an id; nothing matching gets the nearest names instead.
- `where_to_go`: Where is good to go in a month, as the site's list of places answers it: every place open that month, the most visited first (how often travellers look it up; the weather never moves a place up or down), narrowed by the filters given -- a region, a kind of place, what to do (hiking, the sea, snow), the weather in words, quiet only, and from a departure city how far (close by, 3 to 6 hours' flying, long-haul). Each place comes with its month as its card shows it: the site's label (sweet spot, good or ok), the weather word, the typical daytime high, rainy days, busy or quiet, and how far from the city given; with how many places fit, and the same list on the site with its filters set. A place under travel advice is never listed. For one place's twelve months, use best_months.