Unable to rotate xticklabels of all subplots under seaborn figure

Question

I have a figure with multiple subplots. For some reason, the set_xticklabels method does not work for these subplots.

Here is the code am using:

n_rows=len(customers)
fig,ax = plt.subplots(n_rows,2, figsize=(18,72))
fig.suptitle('Mytitile',fontsize=16)
fig.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.4, wspace=0.4)
#fig.tight_layout()
fig.subplots_adjust(top=0.97)
sns.set_style("ticks")
for i,client in enumerate(customers):
    df = df1[df1['Client'] == client]
    sns.lineplot(data = df, x='date', y='income',ax=ax[i,0]).set_title(client)
    ax[i,0].yaxis.set_major_formatter(ticker.EngFormatter())
    sns.lineplot(data = df, x='date', y='cost',ax=ax[i,1]).set_title(client)
    ax[i,1].yaxis.set_major_formatter(ticker.EngFormatter())

I was hoping

ax[i,0].set_xticklabels(ax[i,0].get_xticklabels(), rotation=45,horizontalalignment='right')

would do the trick, but it isnt. (It simply vanishes the labels altogether) Any ideas why and how can i fix it?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '20 at 07:48

It would be simpler to use ax.tick_params to set the rotation,

ax[i, 0].tick_params('x', labelrotation=45)

'x', 'y', or 'both' can be specified for the (optional) first argument (default is 'both') and will control to which axes the label rotation is applied.

Perhaps you should try that instead

Unable to rotate xticklabels of all subplots under seaborn figure

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