I have a Python script which is producing a plot consisting of 3 subplots all in 1 column.

In the middle subplot, I currently have gridlines, but I want to remove the x axis tick labels.

I have tried

ax2.axes.get_xaxis().set_ticks([])

but this seems to remove the gridlines also.

How can I remove the tick labels and keep the gridlines please?

Please try this:

plt.grid(True)
ax2.axes.get_xaxes().set_ticks([])

Or maybe this:

from matplotlib.ticker import NullFormatter
ax2.axes.get_xaxis().set_major_formatter(NullFormatter())