How to subplot 5 figures in 2 X 3 subplot

Question

I want to plot 5 figures, in a subplot grid of 2 x 3 figures.

How to do this?

There would be an extra empty grid for the 6th subplot. I want to avoid that.

What have you tried so far? Please check out [this link](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) to see how to ask a good question. — MyNameIsCaleb, Sep 17 '19 at 17:56
Try using this post as reference and produce a MWE : Minimal Working Example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26767281/position-5-subplots-in-matplotlib — Rene Duchamp, Sep 17 '19 at 18:35
Possible duplicate of [Position 5 subplots in Matplotlib](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26767281/position-5-subplots-in-matplotlib) — Rene Duchamp, Sep 17 '19 at 18:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '19 at 18:46

Welcome to SO! This question has been answered before here but I'll offer an alternate solution using gridspec

Here's 5 axes with a gap:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib as mpl

fig = plt.figure()
spec = mpl.gridspec.GridSpec(ncols=3, nrows=2)

ax1 = fig.add_subplot(spec[0,0])
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(spec[0,1])
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(spec[0,2])
ax4 = fig.add_subplot(spec[1,0])
ax5 = fig.add_subplot(spec[1,1])

Here's a more balanced 5 plot layout:

fig = plt.figure()
spec = mpl.gridspec.GridSpec(ncols=6, nrows=2) # 6 columns evenly divides both 2 & 3

ax1 = fig.add_subplot(spec[0,0:2]) # row 0 with axes spanning 2 cols on evens
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(spec[0,2:4])
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(spec[0,4:])
ax4 = fig.add_subplot(spec[1,1:3]) # row 0 with axes spanning 2 cols on odds
ax5 = fig.add_subplot(spec[1,3:5])

How to subplot 5 figures in 2 X 3 subplot

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