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Author: UK Met Office

Requires Python: >=3.11

Classifiers

Development Status

4 - Beta

Framework

Matplotlib

Operating System

MacOS :: MacOS X
Microsoft :: Windows
POSIX
POSIX :: AIX
POSIX :: Linux

Programming Language

C++
Python
Python :: 3
Python :: 3.11
Python :: 3.12
Python :: 3.13
Python :: 3.14
Python :: 3 :: Only
Python :: Free Threading :: 2 - Beta

Topic

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: GIS
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

Cartopy is a Python package designed to make drawing maps for data analysis and visualisation easy.

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Overview
Get in touch
License and copyright

Overview

Cartopy is a Python package designed to make drawing maps for data analysis and visualisation easy.

It features:

object oriented projection definitions
point, line, polygon and image transformations between projections
integration to expose advanced mapping in Matplotlib with a simple and intuitive interface
powerful vector data handling by integrating shapefile reading with Shapely capabilities

Documentation can be found at https://cartopy.readthedocs.io/stable/.

Get in touch

Ask usage questions on StackOverflow.
For less well defined questions, ideas, general discussion or announcements of related projects use the Cartopy category on Matplotlib's Discourse.
Report bugs, suggest features or view the source code on GitHub.
To chat with developers and other users you can use the Discourse Chat (direct link works after Discourse login).

Credits, copyright and license

Cartopy is developed collaboratively under the SciTools umberella.

A full list of codecontributors ("Cartopy contributors") can be found at https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/graphs/contributors.

Code is just one of many ways of positively contributing to Cartopy, please see our contributing guide for more details on how you can get involved.

Cartopy is released under the 3-Clause BSD license with a shared copyright model. See LICENSE for full terms.

The Met Office has made a significant contribution to the development, maintenance and support of this library. All Met Office contributions are copyright on behalf of the British Crown.

0.26.0 Sep 17, 2026

0.25.0 Aug 01, 2025

0.24.1 Oct 08, 2024

0.24.0 Oct 07, 2024

0.23.0 Apr 10, 2024

0.22.0 Aug 05, 2023

0.21.1 Dec 12, 2022

0.21.0 Sep 10, 2022

0.20.3 Jun 29, 2022

0.20.2 Jan 13, 2022

0.20.1 Oct 08, 2021

0.20.0 Sep 17, 2021

0.19.0.post1 Apr 23, 2021

0.19.0rc1 Mar 12, 2021

0.18.0 May 04, 2020

0.18.0rc1 Apr 27, 2020

0.18.0b2 Apr 13, 2020

0.18.0b1 Feb 11, 2020

0.17.0 Nov 17, 2018

0.16.0 Feb 23, 2018

0.15.1 Aug 01, 2017

0.14.2 Apr 21, 2016

0.14.0 Apr 05, 2016

0.13.1 Apr 05, 2016

0.13.0 Jul 01, 2015

0.12.0.5 May 05, 2015

0.12.0.4 May 05, 2015

0.11.0 Aug 12, 2014

Wheel compatibility matrix

Platform	CPython 3.11	CPython 3.12	CPython 3.13	CPython 3.14	CPython 3.15	CPython (additional flags: t) 3.14	CPython (additional flags: t) 3.15
macosx_10_13_x86_64
macosx_10_15_x86_64
macosx_10_9_x86_64
macosx_11_0_arm64
manylinux_2_24_aarch64
manylinux_2_24_x86_64
manylinux_2_28_aarch64
manylinux_2_28_x86_64
musllinux_1_2_aarch64
musllinux_1_2_x86_64
win32
win_amd64

Files in release

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_24_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (10.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-win32.whl (8.5MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl (8.5MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_24_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-win32.whl (8.5MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl (8.5MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_24_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (9.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-win32.whl (8.5MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl (8.5MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-macosx_10_15_x86_64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-manylinux_2_24_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (9.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-win32.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314-win_amd64.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-macosx_10_15_x86_64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-manylinux_2_24_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-win32.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp314-cp314t-win_amd64.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-macosx_10_15_x86_64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-manylinux_2_24_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (9.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-win32.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315-win_amd64.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-macosx_10_15_x86_64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (8.4MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-manylinux_2_24_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-manylinux_2_24_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (9.1MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (10.0MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-win32.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0-cp315-cp315t-win_amd64.whl (8.6MiB)

cartopy-0.26.0.tar.gz (8.2MiB)

Extras:

Dependencies:

matplotlib (>=3.8)

shapely (>=2.0)

packaging (>=21)

pyshp (>=2.3.1)