I'm using cartopy to draw a geomap. This is how I set up graticule rendering: if graticule: gl = ax.gridlines( draw_labels=True, linewidth=0.8, color='gray', alpha=0.5, linestyle='--', x_inline=False, y_inline=True ) gl.xlocator = mticker.FixedLocator(np.arange(-180, 181, 10)) gl.ylocator = mticker.FixedLocator(np.arange(0, 91, 10)) gl.top_labels = False gl.bottom_labels = True gl.left_labels = True gl.right_labels = True gl.xlabel_style = {'size': 10, 'color': 'gray'} gl.ylabel_style = {'size': 10, 'color': 'gray'} cartopy doesn't draw longitude labels to the left and to the right of the map. Only bottom and top (if on) labels are drawn: With ax.set_extent([0, 40, 75, 85], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree()) added: Latitude labels are okay being inline. Continue reading...