seaborn FacetGrid: How to leave proper space on top for suptitle

Question

Could someone show me how to leave extra space on top of a FacetGrid? I try to put a super title to the top of a FacetGrid plot but end up with the super-title overlapping with the subplot titles due to very limited margin on top in the default setting.

Thanks

Growler

Answer 1

Use the Figure method subplots_adjust to add space to the top of the plot:

g = sns.lmplot("x", "y", col="c", data=df)
g.figure.suptitle("Title of the plot", size=16)
g.figure.subplots_adjust(top=.9)

Adolf

Answer 2

.suptitle(...) is a matplotlib figure function. It has x and y arguments, with y=0.98 as the default. You can adjsut it to be a bit higher, instead of moving the subplots (in some cases you may not have enough freedom there).

g.fig.suptitle("My super title", y=1.05)

Muzzy

Answer 3

Although my answer is not for the suptitle, it helps when you need to increase space for each facet's title:

g.set_titles(pad=15)

Automatism