rotation of xticks in seaborn subplots

Question

enter image description hereI am trying to do rotation for my shared x axis xticks but the rotation works for some of the subplots and not for others. Could anyone point out my mistake

plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [15.00, 7]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True
plt.tight_layout()

fig,ax = plt.subplots(3,2, sharex =True)
plt.xticks(rotation=45);

#fig.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.4, wspace=0.4)

sns.lineplot(ax=ax[0,0],x='YEAR',y ='GDP',data=data1, label ='GDP')
ax[0,0].title.set_text('GDP with DATE')
plt.xticks(rotation=45)

sns.lineplot(ax=ax[0,1],x='YEAR',y='mediansoldprice',data=data1)
ax[0,1].title.set_text('mediansoldprice with DATE')
plt.xticks(rotation=45)

sns.lineplot(ax=ax[1,0],x='YEAR',y='interestrates',data=data1,label ='interestrates')
plt.xticks(rotation=45)
sns.lineplot(ax=ax[1,1],x='YEAR',y='30yr_fixed_mortigage',data=data1, 
label='30yr_fixed_mortigage')
plt.xticks(rotation=45)
sns.lineplot(ax=ax[2,0],x='YEAR',y='homeindex',data=data1,label ='homeindex')
plt.xticks(rotation=45)
plt.show()

Can you provide the test data? – LoukasPap Jun 23 '23 at 21:29 — LoukasPap, Jun 23 '23 at 21:29
Where is it working and where is it not? – jared Jun 23 '23 at 21:30 — jared, Jun 23 '23 at 21:30
I have added my image could you able to see that ? – Malu soma Jun 25 '23 at 10:50 — Malu soma, Jun 25 '23 at 10:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '23 at 01:12

Hard to tell exactly what your problem is without test data and a description or image of the specific plot failure, but the issue is mostly likely that you are calling plt.xticks(rotation=45) rather than setting the rotation for each subplot. You can use matplotlib methods to set the rotation, and there are several ways to do that as described in this answer. Here is a minimum example that you could modify for your plot:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns

fig, ax = plt.subplots(2,2)

x = [1,2,3,4,5]
y = [i**2 for i in x]

sns.lineplot(ax=ax[0,0], x = x, y = y)
ax[0,0].tick_params("x",labelrotation=45)

sns.lineplot(ax=ax[0,1], x = x, y = y)
ax[0,1].tick_params("x",labelrotation=45)

sns.lineplot(ax=ax[1,0], x = x, y = y)
ax[1,0].tick_params("x",labelrotation=45)

sns.lineplot(ax=ax[1,1], x = x, y = y)
ax[1,1].tick_params("x",labelrotation=45)

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

rotation of xticks in seaborn subplots

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