XTICKLABEL_ROTATE90

Rotate numeric Xtick labels by 90 degrees.

When the XTick labels are long numbers that overlap, making them hard to read or distinguish from one another, you may need to use XTICKLABEL_ROTATE90 in order to orient the tick labels vertically rather than horizontally.

Example 1: Set the positions of the XTicks and rotate them.

figure;
plot([1960:2004],randn(45,1));
xlim([1960 2004]);
xticklabel_rotate90([1960:2:2004]);
%Set "Property-value" pairs
xticklabel_rotate90([1960:2:2004],'Color','m');

Example 2: Rotate XTickLabels at their current position

XTick = get(gca,'XTick');
xticklabel_rotate90(XTick);