How to put the title at the bottom of a figure in matplotlib?

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Huayi Wei picture Huayi Wei · Jul 4, 2016 · Viewed 20.1k times · Source

I use matplotlib to plot a figure with four subfigures, and set_title method put the title ( (a) (b) (c) (d)) on the top of every subfigure, see the following code example.

fig = pyplot.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 4, 1)
ax.set_title('(a)')

But I want to put every title at the bottom of every subfigure. I can't figure out it by the matplotlib document and google. So I need your help, thanks very much.

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Answer

ifma picture ifma · Jul 4, 2016

Since you're not using the x axis you can just simply set the xlabel to act as the title, should take care of the positioning:

ax.set_xlabel('this really is a title disguised as an x label')

Edit:

Try offsetting the title according to the figure height, I hope this works:

size = fig.get_size_inches()*fig.dpi # get fig size in pixels
ax.set_title('(a)', y=-size) # increase or decrease y as needed

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