No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cartopy has 3.6M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.25.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is built on top of matplotlib, numpy and packaging. It is used by 458 tracked packages, including arm-pyart, ai-wq-package and geocif.
GitHub topics include cartopy, matplotlib and geometry.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 336 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
70
Adoption
100
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,595,709
•
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
3,595,709
Stars
1,610
Stars per 1k downloads
0.45
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
319,577
Month daily avg
119,857
Momentum
+166.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
339 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
3,595,709
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
180.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
336d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
65.9K
Windows
801
macOS
449
Python Versions
3.13
71.0%
47.1K
3.11
13.6%
9.0K
3.12
12.6%
8.4K
3.10
2.1%
1.4K
3.14
0.8%
506
Top Countries
1.
US
355.5K
US
2.
DK
82.3K
DK
3.
GB
17.9K
GB
4.
SE
14.6K
SE
5.
NL
1.2K
NL
6.
SG
759
SG
7.
CA
735
CA
8.
IE
552
IE
9.
CN
390
CN
10.
DE
337
DE
Dependencies
6
15 optional dependencies
- beautifulsoup4[srtm]
- coveralls[test]
- fiona[speedups]
- owslib[ows]
- pillow[plotting]
- pillow[ows]
- pydata-sphinx-theme[doc]
- pykdtree[speedups]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- pytest-mpl[test]
- pytest-xdist[test]
- scipy[plotting]
- sphinx[doc]
- sphinx-gallery[doc]
Used By
458
- arm-pyart
- ai-wq-package
- geocif
- geoviews
- seismostats
- uxarray
- scitools-iris
- earthkit-plots
- geobenchv2
- ilamb3
- arosics
- acacia-s2s-toolkit
- geoarray
- pyfm2d
- satip
- roms-tools
- aeroviz
- samudra-ai
- goes2go
- geode-gnss
- matplotlib-map-utils
- cartes
- wass2s
- esmvalcore
- pyart-mch
- clisops
- ocf-datapipes
- opendrift
- esmf-regrid
- animaire
- urbanplot
- hdkgcpy
- eomaps
- rosalia-wfi
- icenet
- earthcarekit
- gerg-plotting
- tracktable
- starplot
- mllam-data-prep
- colm-openbench
- cavapy
- geospade
- mapreader
- mintpy
- adsbanomalydetector
- tempest-next
- climada
- trypros
- xscen
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
11 months ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
0.25.0
Total Releases
28
Contributors
133
Open PRs
45
Archived
No
Author
UK Met Office
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh