Which plotting backends does pandas support for DataFrames?

Question

pandas does allow plotting with third party plotting backends. I know that matplotlib (the default one) and hvplot are supported as plotting backends. But I could not find a complete list of supported backends yet. Which plotting backends are supported right now?

Answer 1

You need pandas >= 0.25 to change the plotting backend.

These are the available plotting backends that I know of:

• matplotlib
  
• hvplot >= 0.5.1
  
• holoviews
  
• pandas_bokeh
  
• plotly >= 4.8
  
• altair
  

You can set the backend for the whole session as follows:

pd.options.plotting.backend = 'plotly'

Or for just one plot like this:

df.plot(backend='plotly')

See also:
Change pandas plotting backend to get interactive plots instead of matplotlib static plots