matplotlib time series plot

Official Documents

code:python

import matplotlib.dates as mdates

years = mdates.YearLocator(2) # every 2year

yearsFmt = mdates.DateFormatter('%Y')

ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(years)

ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(yearsFmt)

Offifial examples

api example code: date_demo.py

pylab_examples example code: centered_ticklabels.py

Custom tick formatter for time series — Matplotlib 2.1.2 documentation

Examples

Customize Matplotlibe Dates Ticks on the x-axis in Python | Earth Data Science - Earth Lab

python - Controlling bars width in matplotlib with per-month data - Stack Overflow

matplotlibを使って時系列グラフを書いてみる - Qiita

code:python

import matplotlib.dates as mdates

hours=mdates.HourLocater(np.arange(0,24,2))

days=mdates.DayLocater(interval=1)

h_fmt=mdates.Dateformatter('%m/%d')

d_fmt=mdates.Dateformatter('')

ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(hours)

ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(days)

ax.xaxis.set_minor_formatter(h_fmt)

ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(d_fmt)

Tips

change style

code: python

plt.style.set("fivethirtyeigh")

Error "signed integer is greater than maximum"

python - Plot numpy datetime64 with matplotlib - Stack Overflow

code:python

from datetime import datetime

a=np.datetime64('2002-06-28').astype(datetime)

plot_date(a,2)

Paid Tutorial

Visualizing Time Series Data in Python | DataCamp

See also