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How to change size of Matplotlib plot

📅 2014-Oct-27 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ height, matplotlib, size, width ⬩ 📚 Archive

Sometimes you may want to change the width or height or both of the plot figure generated by Matplotlib. For example, you may want the X-axis to be stretched out a bit more and so on.

The size of the plot can be changed by setting the dynamic rc settings of Matplotlib. These are stored in a dictionary named rcParams. The size of the plot figure is stored with the key figure.figsize.

As an example, to get and set the size of a Matplotlib plot:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Get current size
fig_size = plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"]

# Prints: [8.0, 6.0]
print("Current size:", fig_size)

# Set figure width to 12 and height to 9
fig_size[0] = 12
fig_size[1] = 9
plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = fig_size

Tried with: Python 2.7.6 and Ubuntu 14.04


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