How to change number of tickmarks for dateaxis?

Hey everyone,

I am trying to plot a time series that consists of 8760 data points with a value for each hour of the year. I want to show the values in the plot and display the months of the year on the x axis. I found the function dateaxis which seemed pretty easy, but matlab only displays four months of the year... I want all twelve...

Is there a way to tell dateaxis how many months to plot? If there is not, can you tell me a different way on how to plot my time series??

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

This works to plot months:

x = 0:8759;
y = sin(2*pi*x/(24*30.5));          % Something To Plot

xd = datenum([2014 01 01]) + x/24;

figure(1)
plot(xd, y)
set(gca, 'XTick', 0:11)
datetick('x', 'mmm')
axis tight

Your ‘xd’ and ‘y’ will be different but my set and datetick calls should work.

Answer 2

[Allan Kjærgaard Jensen]

Try this one. It really works great and helped me with better plots.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27075-intelligent-dynamic-date-ticks