pySpainMobility Documentation

Standardized access to Spain’s official mobility datasets

Welcome to the documentation for pySpainMobility - an open-source Python package developed by the research community to access, download, and standardize mobility data published by the Spanish Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility.

Note

This is a FIRST release (both library and documentation). Please report any issues or suggestions via our GitHub repository.

Key Features

  • 🔍 Access daily mobility datasets (versions 1 & 2) covering:
    • Municipalities and districts

    • Greater urban areas

    • Time periods from February 2020 to 2021 and from 2022 to present

  • 📦 Standardized data structures for consistent analysis

  • 🌐 Built-in spatial tessellation handling

  • 📈 Designed for research reproducibility and policy applications

Getting Started

Installation

# Using conda
conda install -c conda-forge pyspainmobility

# pip installation
pip install pyspainmobility

Citing pySpainMobility

If you use this package in your research, please cite:

Beneduce, C., et al. (2025). pySpainMobility: A Python Package to Access and
Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data.

BibTeX entry:

@misc{beneduce2025pyspainmobility,
   title={pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data},
   author={Ciro Beneduce and Tania Gullón Muñoz-Repiso and Bruno Lepri and Massimiliano Luca},
   year={2025},
   eprint={2506.13385},
   archivePrefix={arXiv},
   primaryClass={cs.CY},
   url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13385},
}

Documentation Contents

API Reference