matplotlib.pyplot.bar

matplotlib.pyplot.bar(x, height, width=0.8, bottom=None, *, align='center', data=None, **kwargs)

Make a bar plot.

The bars are positioned at x with the given alignment. Their dimensions are given by width and height. The vertical baseline is bottom (default 0).

Each of x, height, width, and bottom may either be a scalar applying to all bars, or it may be a sequence of length N providing a separate value for each bar.

Parameters:

x : sequence of scalars

The x coordinates of the bars. See also align for the alignment of the bars to the coordinates.

height : scalar or sequence of scalars

The height(s) of the bars.

width : scalar or array-like, optional

The width(s) of the bars (default: 0.8).

bottom : scalar or array-like, optional

The y coordinate(s) of the bars bases (default: 0).

align : {'center', 'edge'}, optional, default: 'center'

Alignment of the bars to the x coordinates:

• 'center': Center the base on the x positions.
• 'edge': Align the left edges of the bars with the x positions.

To align the bars on the right edge pass a negative width and align='edge'.

Returns:

container : BarContainer

Container with all the bars and optionally errorbars.

Other Parameters:

color : scalar or array-like, optional

The colors of the bar faces.

edgecolor : scalar or array-like, optional

The colors of the bar edges.

linewidth : scalar or array-like, optional

Width of the bar edge(s). If 0, don't draw edges.

tick_label : string or array-like, optional

The tick labels of the bars. Default: None (Use default numeric labels.)

xerr, yerr : scalar or array-like of shape(N,) or shape(2,N), optional

If not None, add horizontal / vertical errorbars to the bar tips. The values are +/- sizes relative to the data:

• scalar: symmetric +/- values for all bars
• shape(N,): symmetric +/- values for each bar

• shape(2,N): Separate - and + values for each bar. First row

  contains the lower errors, the second row contains the upper errors.

• None: No errorbar. (Default)

See Different ways of specifying error bars for an example on the usage of xerr and yerr.

ecolor : scalar or array-like, optional, default: 'black'

The line color of the errorbars.

capsize : scalar, optional

The length of the error bar caps in points. Default: None, which will take the value from rcParams["errorbar.capsize"].

error_kw : dict, optional

Dictionary of kwargs to be passed to the errorbar method. Values of ecolor or capsize defined here take precedence over the independent kwargs.

log : bool, optional, default: False

If True, set the y-axis to be log scale.

orientation : {'vertical', 'horizontal'}, optional

This is for internal use only. Please use barh for horizontal bar plots. Default: 'vertical'.

See also

barh

Plot a horizontal bar plot.

Notes

The optional arguments color, edgecolor, linewidth, xerr, and yerr can be either scalars or sequences of length equal to the number of bars. This enables you to use bar as the basis for stacked bar charts, or candlestick plots. Detail: xerr and yerr are passed directly to errorbar(), so they can also have shape 2xN for independent specification of lower and upper errors.

Other optional kwargs:

Property	Description
agg_filter	a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha	float or None
animated	bool
antialiased or aa	unknown
capstyle	{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'}
clip_box	Bbox
clip_on	bool
clip_path	[(Path, Transform) | Patch | None]
color	color
contains	callable
edgecolor or ec	color or None or 'auto'
facecolor or fc	color or None
figure	Figure
fill	bool
gid	str
hatch	{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}
in_layout	bool
joinstyle	{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}
label	object
linestyle or ls	{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}
linewidth or lw	float or None
path_effects	AbstractPathEffect
picker	None or bool or float or callable
rasterized	bool or None
sketch_params	(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap	bool or None
transform	Transform
url	str
visible	bool
zorder	float

Note

In addition to the above described arguments, this function can take a data keyword argument. If such a data argument is given, the following arguments are replaced by data[<arg>]:

• All positional and all keyword arguments.

Objects passed as data must support item access (data[<arg>]) and membership test (<arg> in data).

Examples using matplotlib.pyplot.bar

Stacked Bar Graph

Grouped bar chart with labels

Percentiles as horizontal bar chart

Nested pie charts

Bar chart on polar axis

Hatch Demo

Table Demo

Custom Ticker1

Pyplot tutorial