MATLAB: How to make plot with date tick labels

datadata import

Hello,

I have monthly time series data 1901:2005 (1*1260). I want to put months with years on xtick like the attached example figure. Please help me. I am also uploading my data in mat format

Thank you so much in advance.

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Very easy if you use the datetime format.

data=load('data.mat');
t=datetime(1901,1:1260,1)
plot(t,data.deseasoned_data)
xtickformat('MMM yyyy')

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That's because datetick is a bit clunky, and it can't get a lock on a date that it thinks is worthy of displaying. Probably because your date range is somewhat short. For example, here's a year of data:

t = datenum(2005,1,1:365); 
y = sind(t); 
plot(t,y,'bo-') 
datetick('x','DD/mm','keeplimits')

But if you only have 5 days of data it can't find a good match:

t = datenum(2005,1,1:5); 
y = sind(t); 
plot(t,y,'bo-') 
datetick('x','DD/mm','keeplimits')

But you can specify xticks manually. Let's set an x tick every other day:

set(gca,'xtick',t(1:2:end))
datetick('x','DD/mm','keepticks','keeplimits')

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Hi Hans,

now I get it. In this special case you have to deactivate the xticklabels, too. This should works fine:

A(1,1:21)= 100000:100020;
B(1:100,1)= 1:100;
C(1:100,1:21)=33;
figure;
pcolor(A,B,C)
set(gca,'xtick',[])
set(gca,'xticklabel',[])

Best regards,

Friedrich

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