Move x/y-axis ticks and labels on top and right

axes.Axes.tick_params can be used to move tick marks and tick labels to the top or right side of the Axes:

ax.tick_params(top=True, labeltop=True, bottom=False, labelbottom=False)
ax.tick_params(right=True, labelright=True, left=False, labelleft=False)

To also reposition the axes labels (xlabel/ylabel), use Axes.xaxis.set_label_position and Axes.yaxis.set_label_position.

Note

To apply this globally for all future plots, set the rcParams:

• rcParams["xtick.top"] (default: False)

• rcParams["xtick.labeltop"] (default: False)

• rcParams["xtick.bottom"] (default: True)

• rcParams["xtick.labelbottom"] (default: True)

• rcParams["ytick.right"] (default: False)

• rcParams["ytick.labelright"] (default: False)

• rcParams["ytick.left"] (default: True)

• rcParams["ytick.labelleft"] (default: True)

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(range(10))

# Move ticks marks and tick labels
ax.tick_params(
    top=True, labeltop=True,
    bottom=False, labelbottom=False,
    right=True, labelright=True,
    left=False, labelleft=False,
)

# Move axis labels
ax.xaxis.set_label_position("top")
ax.yaxis.set_label_position("right")

ax.set_xlabel("X label")
ax.set_ylabel("Y label")

plt.show()