Changing the rotation of tick labels in Seaborn heatmap

seaborn uses matplotlib internally, as such you can use matplotlib functions to modify your plots. I’ve modified the code below to use the plt.yticks function to set rotation=0 which fixes the issue.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns


data = pd.DataFrame(np.random.normal(size=40*40).reshape(40,40))

yticks = data.index
keptticks = yticks[::int(len(yticks)/10)]
yticks = ['' for y in yticks]
yticks[::int(len(yticks)/10)] = keptticks

xticks = data.columns
keptticks = xticks[::int(len(xticks)/10)]
xticks = ['' for y in xticks]
xticks[::int(len(xticks)/10)] = keptticks

sns.heatmap(data,linewidth=0,yticklabels=yticks,xticklabels=xticks)

# This sets the yticks "upright" with 0, as opposed to sideways with 90.
plt.yticks(rotation=0) 

plt.show()