# How to rotate xticks in CairoMakie?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-rotate-xticks-in-cairomakie/63120>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, plotting, makie\
**Created:** [June 17, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-rotate-xticks-in-cairomakie/63120 "2021-06-17T23:09:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheRoniOne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/theronione/32/17359_2.png) [@TheRoniOne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheRoniOne)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-rotate-xticks-in-cairomakie/63120/1 "2021-06-17T23:09:34Z")

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Hi,

I’m using CairoMakie and can’t find a way to rotate xticks 90° (from horizontal to vertical), already defined my own FIgure and Axis and trying to make a scatter plot.

```julia
f = Figure()

Axis(f[1,1], xticks = (1:31, df.date_created))

xs = 1:1:31
ys = df.mean
mksize = df.nrow

scatter!(xs, ys, markersize = mksize)

f

```

Thanks in advance for any help.

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**Author:** ![contradict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@contradict](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/contradict)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-rotate-xticks-in-cairomakie/63120/2 "2021-06-17T23:53:05Z")

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How about

```julia
Axis(f[1,1], xticks = (1:31, df.date_created), xticklabelrotation=45.0)

```

The full list of attributes is here: [https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/makielayout/reference.html#Makie.MakieLayout.Axis](https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/makielayout/reference.html#Makie.MakieLayout.Axis)

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**Author:** ![TheRoniOne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/theronione/32/17359_2.png) [@TheRoniOne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheRoniOne)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-rotate-xticks-in-cairomakie/63120/3 "2021-06-18T00:11:54Z")

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It worked!  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 5:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-rotate-xticks-in-cairomakie/63120/4 "2021-06-18T05:09:38Z")

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All rotations in Makie are radians, so the value you want is pi/2

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**Author:** ![alex-s-gardner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alex-s-gardner/32/30210_2.png) [@alex-s-gardner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alex-s-gardner)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-rotate-xticks-in-cairomakie/63120/5 "2024-08-16T21:42:55Z")

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updated link to docs found here:

> **[Axis | Makie](https://docs.makie.org/v0.21/reference/blocks/axis#xticklabelrotation)**
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