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metpy

MetPy is a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing and performing calculations with weather data.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

metpy has 242K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.7.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is built on top of matplotlib, numpy and pandas. It is used by 74 tracked packages, including act-atmos, skyborn and goes2go.

GitHub topics include atmospheric-science, meteorology and weather.

Downloads
Day
5.4K
Week
37.8K
Month
242.5K
Stars
1.4K
Forks
448
Issues
320
Version
1.7.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
70
Adoption
53
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
242,462
• 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
242,462
Stars
1,429
Stars per 1k downloads
5.89
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
5,405
Month daily avg
8,082
Momentum
-33.1%
((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
311 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
3.9
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
91
Monthly downloads
242,462
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
99
 
Issue Burden
223.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
153.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
304d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.4K
Windows 100
macOS 71

Python Versions

3.12
59.0% 2.6K
3.11
27.0% 1.2K
3.10
8.1% 359
3.14
3.1% 139
3.13
2.8% 122

Top Countries

1. US US
3.1K
2. CA CA
721
3. NL NL
363
4. SG SG
137
5. CH CH
56
6. IE IE
35
7. CN CN
23
8. HK HK
22
9. BR BR
19
10. NO NO
15
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 22, 2015
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.7.1
Total Releases
44
Contributors
91
Open PRs
52
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
meteorology weather
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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