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sunpy

sunpy

SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
8.6K
Week
56.1K
Month
216.0K
Stars
1.0K
Forks
656
Issues
243
Version
7.1.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
70
Adoption
83
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
216,040
• 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
216,040
Stars
1,012
Stars per 1k downloads
4.68
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
8,016
Month daily avg
7,201
Momentum
+11.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
• 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
16 days ago
Total releases
187
Releases/year
13.9
• 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
250
Monthly downloads
216,040
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
80
 
Issue Burden
240.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
38.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.9K
Windows 75
macOS 46

Python Versions

3.11
56.1% 1.7K
3.12
23.1% 687
3.13
8.9% 265
3.10
7.9% 233
3.9
3.9% 117

Top Countries

1. US US
2.7K
2. CN CN
1.3K
3. GB GB
133
4. SG SG
38
5. DE DE
17
6. AU AU
15
7. CA CA
10
8. TW TW
8
9. IN IN
6
10. NL NL
5

Dependencies

7
63 optional dependencies

Used By

75
View all 75 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
November 26, 2012
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
7.1.2
Total Releases
187
Contributors
250
Open PRs
36
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp38 cp39
Keywords
solar physics solar science sun wcs coordinates
Topics
sunpy python astronomy solar astropy solar-physics sun hacktoberfest
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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