Contextily
Add context geo-tiles to geospatial visualizations.
ML and data science PyPI BSD-3-Clause
How Contextily is used
Contextily joined the catalog on its public numbers (134,443 downloads a week on PyPI and 598 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 9 public GitHub projects of our scan, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use GeoPandas (100.0%), Matplotlib (88.9%), Bokeh (77.8%).
Contextily popularity over time
Gid Score 30: downloads 45, use in agent projects 16, GitHub stars 3, downloads trend 59 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Contextily
| GeoPandas | 100.0% of Contextily projects · 886.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Matplotlib | 88.9% of Contextily projects · 33.0× more than average |
| Bokeh | 77.8% of Contextily projects · 1609.5× more than average |
| Folium | 77.8% of Contextily projects · 804.7× more than average |
| Jupyter | 77.8% of Contextily projects · 201.2× more than average |
| FastAPI | 66.7% of Contextily projects · 8.9× more than average |
| flake8 | 66.7% of Contextily projects · 94.1× more than average |
| NumPy | 66.7% of Contextily projects · 11.4× more than average |
How Contextily is funded
Open Collective: GeoPandas
| Received, last 12 months | $850 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $850 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $1,526 |
| Raised since the start | $9,651 · $8,125 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $50 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +31% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $9,451 since Jun 2023 |
|---|
Jun 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Jun 2023. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 3 more tools in our catalog: GeoPandas, pyogrio, xyzservices.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @numfocus | 65 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Contextily
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective Own page
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install contextily |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (9) |
| Example projects | opengeos/geospatial |
Alternatives to Contextily
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