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cartopy

Cartopy - a cartographic python library with matplotlib support
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
48.8K
Week
313.8K
Month
1.3M
Stars
1.6K
Forks
396
Issues
291
Version
0.25.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
70
Adoption
80
Community
90
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,299,434
• 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
1,299,434
Stars
1,600
Stars per 1k downloads
1.23
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
44,824
Month daily avg
43,314
Momentum
+3.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
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
294 days ago
Total releases
28
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
133
Monthly downloads
1,299,434
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
181.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
280d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 29.3K
Windows 905
macOS 433

Python Versions

3.11
44.5% 13.3K
3.12
38.3% 11.5K
3.10
10.1% 3.0K
3.13
5.2% 1.6K
3.9
1.8% 538

Top Countries

1. US US
26.4K
2. CN CN
626
3. SG SG
615
4. CA CA
486
5. GB GB
484
6. NL NL
361
7. DE DE
358
8. IE IE
277
9. JP JP
169
10. TW TW
162

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
August 12, 2014
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.25.0
Total Releases
28
Contributors
133
Open PRs
43
Archived
No
Author
UK Met Office
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp39
Keywords
cartography map transform projection pyproj shapely shapefile
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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