# TravelCharika (remote · travelcharika.com)

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

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +2
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-18

## Components

- remote · `travelcharika.com`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-travelcharika-travelcharika/travelcharika.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-travelcharika-travelcharika/travelcharika)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://travelcharika.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-18.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 405, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 58/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 2597 tokens (~324/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 33/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 15 days we've observed: 1 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 3 additions.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 9 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the TravelCharika MCP server?

TravelCharika is a hosted endpoint at https://travelcharika.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-travelcharika-travelcharika 'https://travelcharika.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-travelcharika-travelcharika": {
      "url": "https://travelcharika.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

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

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-travelcharika-travelcharika]
url = "https://travelcharika.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-travelcharika-travelcharika": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://travelcharika.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-travelcharika-travelcharika --url 'https://travelcharika.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-travelcharika-travelcharika:
    url: "https://travelcharika.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-travelcharika-travelcharika": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://travelcharika.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-travelcharika-travelcharika -t streamable-http -u 'https://travelcharika.com/mcp'
```

### Other

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

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-17 (score 68, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “best_months” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “booking_links” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “country_facts” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “how_to_get_there” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_places” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 271 → 324
- [functional] Server version: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0
- [functional] New tool “activities”
- [functional] New tool “events”
- [functional] New tool “where_to_go”
- [cosmetic] “best_months” reworded the description of “from_city”
- [cosmetic] “search_places” reworded the description of “query”

### 2026-10-16 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 21 to 25.

### 2026-10-14 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 15 to 18.

### 2026-10-12 (score 66, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “best_months” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional] Schema quality: excellent → good
- [cosmetic] “best_months” reworded the description of “from_city”

### 2026-10-10 (score 66, −4)

- [security regression] HTTPS: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Stability: 0.07 → fail
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: 1527 → 1362

### 2026-10-04 (score 70, 0)

- [security] Tool “best_months” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “booking_links” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “compare_places” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “how_to_get_there” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-03 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (8)

### `search_places` (~224 tokens)

Search TravelCharika

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.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): At most this many matches.
- `query` (string, required): What to look for: a place, country, region, kind of place, activity, city to fly from, or a phrase such as "bali in may" or "beaches december".

### `where_to_go` (~541 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `activity` (array): Optional, any of them: hiking (a month good for walking all day), sea (the beach and sea good or fair) or snow (a ski place whose lifts run that month).
- `from_city` (string): One of TravelCharika's departure cities, by its airport code ("DEL", "LON") or its name ("Delhi", "London", "Bombay"). Optional: each place then says how far it is, and how_far can narrow the list by…
- `how_far` (string): Optional, with from_city: close (a road of up to four hours, or up to three hours' flying), medium (3 to 6 hours' flying) or far (long-haul).
- `kind` (string): Optional: a kind of place, by name or id ("Beaches", "mountains", "islands"); several separated by commas for any of them.
- `limit` (integer): At most this many places, the most visited first.
- `month` (integer|string, required): A month: 1 to 12, or its name ("December", "dec").
- `quiet` (boolean): Optional: true for quiet places only, leaving out the ones busy that month.
- `region` (string): Optional: a region, by name or id ("Europe", "south-asia"); several separated by commas for any of them.
- `weather` (array): Optional, any of them: the weather in words, each a band of the month's average daily high -- hot 30 °C or more, warm from 23, mild from 15, cool from 8, cold below 8.

### `best_months` (~285 tokens)

When to go

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.

Input parameters:

- `from_city` (string): One of TravelCharika's departure cities, by its airport code ("DEL", "LON") or its name ("Delhi", "London", "Bombay"). Optional: the answer then says how far the place is from it.
- `place` (string, required): A place TravelCharika covers: its id from search_places ("bali") or its name ("Bali", "Da Nang", "Ubud").

### `activities` (~226 tokens)

Activities by month

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.

Input parameters:

- `activity` (string, required): hiking, beach (the beach and sea), skiing or northern-lights.
- `limit` (integer): At most this many places, the most visited first.
- `month` (integer|string): A month: 1 to 12, or its name ("December", "dec"). Optional: without it, each month's count.

### `events` (~271 tokens)

Big 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.

Input parameters:

- `from_city` (string): One of TravelCharika's departure cities, by its airport code ("DEL", "LON") or its name ("Delhi", "London", "Bombay"). Optional: how far each event is from there.
- `month` (integer|string): A month: 1 to 12, or its name ("December", "dec"). Optional: only that month's events.
- `place` (string): A place TravelCharika covers: its id from search_places ("bali") or its name ("Bali", "Da Nang", "Ubud"). Optional: only that place's events.

### `booking_links` (~361 tokens)

Where to book

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".

Input parameters:

- `from_city` (string): One of TravelCharika's departure cities, by its airport code ("DEL", "LON") or its name ("Delhi", "London", "Bombay"). Where the reader flies from: needed for flights and airlines, and gives their co…
- `kind` (string): Only this kind of row: flights, airline, stay, direct (hotel groups), luxury, do (things to do), car, rental (car renters), insurance or esim. Every kind if left out.
- `place` (string, required): A place TravelCharika covers: its id from search_places ("bali") or its name ("Bali", "Da Nang", "Ubud").
- `reader_country` (string): Where the reader lives, as a two-letter ISO 3166 code ("GB", "IN") or an English name: whose sites to list. Taken from from_city when left out.

### `how_to_get_there` (~220 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `from_city` (string, required): One of TravelCharika's departure cities, by its airport code ("DEL", "LON") or its name ("Delhi", "London", "Bombay").
- `place` (string, required): A place TravelCharika covers: its id from search_places ("bali") or its name ("Bali", "Da Nang", "Ubud").

### `country_facts` (~189 tokens)

Before you go

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.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string, required): A two-letter ISO 3166 code ("ID") or an English name ("Indonesia").

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-travelcharika-travelcharika/travelcharika#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-18: 68
- 2026-10-17: 68
- 2026-10-16: 68
- 2026-10-15: 67
- 2026-10-14: 67
- 2026-10-13: 66
- 2026-10-12: 66
- 2026-10-10: 66
- 2026-10-05: 70
- 2026-10-04: 70
- 2026-10-03: 70

## Common questions

### What is the TravelCharika MCP server?

TravelCharika is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.travelcharika/travelcharika. When to go and where to book: 87 places scored month by month from measured weather. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://travelcharika.com/mcp).

### Is the TravelCharika MCP server safe to use?

TravelCharika scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the TravelCharika MCP server expose?

TravelCharika exposes 8 tools: search_places, where_to_go, best_months, activities, events, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,317 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the TravelCharika MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to TravelCharika without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the TravelCharika MCP server still maintained?

TravelCharika is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://travelcharika.com/mcp
- Website: https://travelcharika.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-travelcharika-travelcharika/travelcharika.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-travelcharika-travelcharika/travelcharika.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-travelcharika-travelcharika/travelcharika