Rotation for X axis ticks: int[0, 359] xtick_label_enabled: Whether to draw tick labels on X axis. Turned off if xtick_enabled is off: int[0, 1] ytick_enabled: Enabling both ticks and tick labels.

It seems that the issue lies with >=910 elements in the date_list generating >1000 x-ticks. Matplotlib version. import matplotlib matplotlib.version '2.0.0' import platform platform.python_version() ...