Move x-axis tick labels to the top

tick_params can be used to configure the ticks. top and labeltop control the visibility tick lines and labels at the top x-axis. To move x-axis ticks from bottom to top, we have to activate the top ticks and deactivate the bottom ticks:

ax.tick_params(top=True, labeltop=True, bottom=False, labelbottom=False)

Note

If the change should be made for all future plots and not only the current Axes, you can adapt the respective config parameters

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

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

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

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

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(range(10))
ax.tick_params(top=True, labeltop=True, bottom=False, labelbottom=False)
ax.set_title('x-ticks moved to the top')

plt.show()