Openvan Travel
by openvan.camp in Weather & location
Vanlife & RV data: roadbooks, fuel, tolls, visas, holidays, hazards, weather, currency. openvan.camp
https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp
Last 30 days
- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 175 ms typical, 175 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 13 min ago
- Next check
- in 6 h
How to call it
Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.
{
"mcpServers": {
"openvan-travel": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp"
}
}
}28 tools
- plan_road_trip
Plan a road trip by campervan or car between 2-10 places with the OpenVan roadbook: distance, driving time and a day-by-day plan with overnights, budget (fuel, tolls, vignettes, ferries), and for every country on the way the entry rule for the given passports and plates, how long
- get_roadbook_build_status
Internal helper for the plan_road_trip card: progress of the roadbook build (route, tolls, borders and cities, campsites, weather, news). Not for direct use — call plan_road_trip.
- get_fuel_prices
Current retail fuel prices for all API-supported countries. Covers gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG, E85, kerosene and grade variants. Pass country_code to get one country in detail; omit it for a summary list.
- compare_fuel_prices
Compare current prices for one fuel type across 2-10 countries. Returns sorted table cheapest-first.
- find_cheapest_fuel
Find the cheapest countries for a given fuel type in a region (or worldwide). Useful for route planning.
- get_country_travel_weather
How suitable the weather in a whole country is for travelling and sleeping in a campervan, as a 0-100 score: overall travel score, sleep score, solar panel yield, driving conditions, awning safety, condensation risk, a 7-day forecast, and the 3 best and 3 toughest cities for the
- get_city_travel_weather
How suitable the weather in one city or town is for travelling and sleeping in a campervan, as a 0-100 score for today and for the coming 7 days, with sleep, driving and solar scores and daily scores. Use this, not get_country_travel_weather, when the user names a place (Barcelon
- list_best_weather_countries
List the N countries where today's weather is best for travelling by campervan, highest 0-100 travel score first.
- list_events
List vanlife events: expos (Caravan Salon), festivals, meetups, forums, road trips. Filter by status, type, country, or free-text search.
- get_event
Get full details for a single vanlife event by its slug.
- search_stories
Search recent news about campervans, motorhomes and road travel collected by OpenVan.camp from public news sources. Returns for each story only a headline, a short summary of up to 300 characters, date, category, countries and a link to the story page on openvan.camp, which credi
- compare_food_prices
Compare food price index between two countries (world average = 100). Higher number = more expensive food.
- get_country_food_prices
Food price index for one country (world average = 100): how expensive groceries are there, with its yearly history.
- get_currency_rate
Convert an amount between two currencies using live rates (150+ currencies, daily updates).
- check_visa_rules
Entry rules for one passport and destination: entry mode, allowed length of stay, how the days are counted (per entry or in a rolling window), whether a visa run resets the counter, and temporary vehicle import. Answers carry a confidence level and source — pass those on instead
- get_route_visa_rules
Visa rules for every country of a route in one call, for up to 10 passports at once, plus the tightest leg of the route.
- get_vehicle_import_rules
Temporary admission rules for a foreign-plated vehicle in one country: allowed days, per entry or per window, carnet requirement, green card. A country without a rule we can stand behind returns nothing rather than a guess.
- get_toll_rates
Toll reference for one country: payment system, per-km rates by vehicle class (car, campervan up to 3.5 t, over 3.5 t), vignette prices for every duration, concession sections and toll bridges/tunnels, each with verification date and source.
- estimate_route_tolls
Estimate toll cost for a road trip from 2-10 place names: per-km tolls, vignettes, bridges and tunnels, as a EUR range with a per-country breakdown. Flags partial results when a country on the route has no data.
- get_holidays
Public holidays, school holidays (often regional, with ISO 3166-2 region codes) and official peak traffic days (France, Bison Futé) in one country for a period of up to 400 days. A country without data returns an error saying so — never present that as "no holidays".
- get_travel_hazards
Situation now in one country: UK FCDO travel advice level and current GDACS natural disasters (flood, earthquake, tropical cyclone, wildfire, drought, volcano) with alert level green/orange/red. Not a forecast.
- get_active_fires
NASA FIRMS VIIRS satellite fire detections of the last 48 hours in a bounding box up to 10°×10°, strongest first, with fire radiative power in MW.
- get_power_plugs
Plug types (IEC A–N), mains voltage and frequency for one country, with the source of the value, plus the campsite hook-up connector in Europe (CEE17).
- get_customs_rules
Customs rules when driving into a country, optionally from a given country: food bans, cash declaration, alcohol and tobacco limits, goods value, fuel in a canister. Each rule carries a verbatim official quote and source link. A country without data returns an error saying so — n
- list_license_plate_countries
Countries whose license plates are available: international code, number of regions and an example plate.
- get_license_plate_country
How a country's license plate looks and reads (standard, size, format), its plate types (standard, diplomatic, police, taxi…) with example numbers, and every region code on its plates, grouped by region — e.g. which region is 77 or 199 on Russian plates.
- check_license_plate
Validate a plate number against the country's format (look-alike letters are normalized) and say which region its code belongs to. Pass type to check against a specific plate type's format. Never identifies the owner or the vehicle's location.
- get_license_plate_image
Draw an illustrative image of a country's standard civilian license plate (PNG shown inline, plus SVG/PNG links). The number must match the country's standard format. Official, police, military and diplomatic plates are not drawn.
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time |
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| 13 min ago | Passed | 200 | 283 ms |
| 8 h ago | Passed | 200 | 175 ms |