You have to rotate the textbox using the property position. From the Matlab Help: "The width and height values determine the orientation of sliders. If width is greater than height, then the slider is oriented horizontally, If height is greater than width, then the slider is oriented vertically."

I checked the property position, but that changes the width and height of the textbox. Also changing the width and height position of the textbox doesn't change the rotation of text inside the textbox.

Hi, not sure what version you are using, but there is a solution available in the mathworks forum:

https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/25996-rotate-annotation-textbox

Later versions might have an off-the-shelf solution

Hope this helps,

Best regards,

David

figure plot(1:10) xlim=get(gca,'XLim'); ylim=get(gca,'YLim'); ht = text(0.5*xlim(1)+0.5*xlim(2),0.6*ylim(1)+0.4*ylim(2),'My text'); set(ht,'Rotation',45) set(ht,'FontSize',18)

This commands will rotate legends/text but it will not rotate text inside the textbox

try this

annotation('textarrow',[0.5 0.5],[0.5 0.5],'string','Latitude', ...

'HeadStyle','none','LineStyle', 'none', 'TextRotation',90,'Position',[.02 .6 0 0],'FontSize',12,'FontWeight','bold');