No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
astral has 1.2M monthly downloads and 286 GitHub stars. Version 3.2 supports Python >=3.7,<4.0, first published in 2009.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2022.
It is built on top of backports-zoneinfo and tzdata. It is used by 85 tracked packages, including homeassistant, spotforecast2-safe and spotforecast2.
GitHub topics include sun, moon and moon-phase.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 9 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
51
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
797 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,183,469
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,183,469
Stars
286
Stars per 1k downloads
0.24
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
35,688
Month daily avg
39,449
Momentum
-9.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7,<4.0
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1339 days ago
Total releases
45
Releases/year
2.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
9
Monthly downloads
1,183,469
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
•
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
54
Issue Burden
185.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
541d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
26.6K
macOS
432
Windows
217
Python Versions
3.12
28.0%
7.1K
3.14
27.2%
6.9K
3.13
21.2%
5.4K
3.11
15.3%
3.9K
3.10
8.2%
2.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
22.0K
US
2.
SG
838
SG
3.
NL
807
NL
4.
DE
546
DE
5.
IE
519
IE
6.
FR
410
FR
7.
AU
328
AU
8.
ES
242
ES
9.
HK
209
HK
10.
GB
197
GB
Dependencies
2
Used By
85
- homeassistant
- spotforecast2-safe
- spotforecast2
- ziptimezone
- appdaemon
- openaction
- eascheduler
- voxcity
- domesti-bot
- zensvi
- openhems
- acoupi
- classifier-pipeline
- photo-composition-designer
- sc-utility
- gpxsheet
- bikescout
- euro-aip
- podflow
- brightsky
- omnikdatalogger
- synapse-p2p
- ovos-gui-plugin-shell-companion
- solaredge2mqtt
- aerosol-functions
- automatic-time-lapse-creator
- astrality
- my-smart-homes
- ctao-calibpipe
- acme-weather
- nightflight
- sc-foundation-services
- gpxtable
- lstnet
- z4j-scheduler
- pollyxt-pipelines
- enviroplus
- hylite
- plot-finder
- nucore-ai
- pf-dre-database-client
- solaredge-influxdb
- twiga
- epftoolbox2
- jewcal
- my-smart-homes-enterprise-wing
- kaalavidya
- domovoy
- catch-sunset
- wxtwitterbot
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
November 26, 2009
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
3.2
Total Releases
45
Contributors
9
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
Simon Kennedy
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh