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cartopy

Cartopy - a cartographic python library with matplotlib support
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Monthly downloads
817.1K
Weekly downloads
204.0K
GitHub stars
1.6K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
0.26.0
Requires Python
>=3.11
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Last Release
4 weeks ago
Author
UK Met Office
First Release
August 12, 2014
Total Releases
29
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
70
Adoption
79
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
817,070
• 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
817,070
Stars
1,621
Stars per 1k downloads
1.98
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
29,143
Month daily avg
27,236
Momentum
+7.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
29 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
2.4
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
131
Monthly downloads
817,070
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
79
 
Issue Burden
172.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 16.7K
Windows 636
macOS 384

Python Versions

3.12
39.0% 6.5K
3.11
29.6% 5.0K
3.13
18.7% 3.1K
3.10
8.9% 1.5K
3.14
3.7% 621

Top Countries

1. US US
12.7K
2. CA CA
854
3. JP JP
694
4. EE EE
602
5. DE DE
335
6. CN CN
334
7. KR KR
334
8. SG SG
324
9. FR FR
321
10. NL NL
314

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

6
17 optional dependencies

Used By

487
View all 487 dependents

Repository details

Forks
402
Issues
280
Last Commit
1 week ago
Contributors
131
Open PRs
44
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
cartography map transform projection pyproj shapely shapefile
Sources and methodology