Places Environment

Environmental data for Places: tides, solar events, and weather, as charts, tables, cards, and user templates.

Network requests

Area	Request
Tides	Finds the nearest station and reads its tide predictions
Solar events	Reads sunrise, sunset, and twilight times for a coordinate
Weather	Reads current, hourly, and daily forecast values
Seasonal forecast	Reads forecast values beyond the 16 day forecast window

Requests go to api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov, api.sunrise-sunset.org, api.open-meteo.com, and seasonal-api.open-meteo.com. Responses are cached in the note's frontmatter or in plugin data, with a lifetime set by each block's cache: setting.

Background tasks

None.

Dependencies

Library	Purpose
Chart.js	Tide, solar, and weather charts
chartjs-adapter-date-fns	Time axis support for Chart.js
date-fns	Date arithmetic and formatting
lunarphase-js	Moon phase for solar output
markdown-table	Renders generated tables
openmeteo	Decodes Open-Meteo flatbuffers responses
user-template-renderer	Runs the user template in places-weather-template
places-shared	Shared map, overlay, routing, and utility code