How to add title to subplots in Matplotlib?

Question

I have one figure which contains many subplots.

fig = plt.figure(num=None, figsize=(26, 12), dpi=80, facecolor='w', edgecolor='k')
fig.canvas.set_window_title('Window Title')

# Returns the Axes instance
ax = fig.add_subplot(311) 
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(312) 
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(313) 

How do I add titles to the subplots?

fig.suptitle adds a title to all graphs and although ax.set_title() exists, the latter does not add any title to my subplots.

Thank you for your help.

Edit: Corrected typo about set_title(). Thanks Rutger Kassies

Answer 1

ax.set_title() should set the titles for separate subplots:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

if __name__ == "__main__":
    data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

    fig = plt.figure()
    fig.suptitle("Title for whole figure", fontsize=16)
    ax = plt.subplot("211")
    ax.set_title("Title for first plot")
    ax.plot(data)

    ax = plt.subplot("212")
    ax.set_title("Title for second plot")
    ax.plot(data)

    plt.show()

Can you check if this code works for you? Maybe something overwrites them later?