# SouthendOnSea.city

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/southendonsea/  
**Website:** https://southendonsea.city  
**APIs profiled:** 1

SouthendOnSea.city is an independent local information and community-participation platform for Southend-on-Sea, Essex, covering local news, community propositions and public voting, city information and the Southend Science Exhibition. Its public data API — Southend Now — serves unauthenticated, source-linked current and historical observations for the area: weather, designated bathing waters, marine conditions, modelled air quality and flood alerts. Three operations return the current snapshot, a JSON history and a CSV history, refreshed on a 1,800-second interval, with source licensing and attribution preserved in the payload. The platform is independent and unofficial and states plainly that it is not operated by Southend-on-Sea City Council, Essex Police or any election authority.

## Kin Score — 23.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 44.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 14.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 12.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (1)

- **Southend Now Public Data API** — Unauthenticated, source-linked current and historical Southend-on-Sea observations covering weather, designated bathing waters, marine conditions, modelled air quality and flood...

## Tags

Open Data, Local Government Data, Environment, Weather, Water Quality, Air Quality, Civic Tech, United Kingdom

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/southendonsea/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.