How to set the output locale

An output locale is a specific setting that adapts your visualization to the language and country of your readers. When you choose an output locale, your visualization will automatically...

  • translate the names of fields in its footer. (For example, the Source field becomes the German Quelle.)
  • translate the names of months and days of the week in its x-axis, and use local conventions for displaying dates. (For example, January 30, 2024 becomes 30. Januar 2024 and vice versa.)
  • use local conventions for decimal and thousand separators. (For example, 1,000.00 becomes 1.000,00 and vice versa.)

The output locale feature is located in Step 2: Check & Refine. There you can select your country and language with one click: 

After selecting an output locale, the change will be instant.

You can currently set the output local to any the following language-country combinations. Do you need a language or combination that's not on this list? Send an email to support@datawrapper.de to help us add it!

العربية-الإمارات ar-AE Arabic (UAE)
العربية-الجزائر ar-DZ Arabic (Algeria)
العربية-السعودية ar-SA Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
فارسی fa-IR Farsi (Iran)
دری fa-AF Dari (Afghanistan)
پښتو ps-AF Pashto (Afghanistan)
עברית he-IL Hebrew (Israel)
Azərbaycanca az-AZ Azeri (Azerbaijan)
български bg-BG Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
català ca-ES Catalan (Spain)
čeština cs-CZ Czech (Czechia)
dansk da-DK Danish (Denmark)
Deutsch de-DE German (Germany)
Deutsch de-CH German (Switzerland)
eesti et-EE Estonian (Estonia)
Ελληνικά el-GR Greek (Greece)
English en-US English (United States)
English en-GB English (United Kingdom)
English en-IE English (Ireland)
English en-AP English (Associated Press style)
English en-CH English (Switzerland)
español es-ES Spanish (Spain)
español es-US Spanish (United States)
español es-AR Spanish (Argentina)
euskara eu-ES Basque (Spain)
Føroyskt fo-FO Faroese (Faroe Islands)
français fr-FR French (France)
français fr-CH French (Switzerland)
français fr-CA French (Canada)
Gaeilge ga-IE Irish (Ireland)
galego gl-ES Galician (Spain)
hrvatski hr-HR Croatian (Croatia)
Íslenska is-IS Icelandic (Iceland)
italiano it-IT Italian (Italy)
italiano it-CH Italian (Switzerland)
Қазақша kk-KZ Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
한국어 ko-KR Korean (South Korea)
кыргызча ky-KG Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
latviešu lv-LV Latvian (Latvia)
lietuvių lt-LT Lithuanian (Lithuania)
magyar hu-HU Hungarian (Hungary)
македонски mk-MK Macedonian (Macedonia)
Malti mt-MT Maltese (Malta)
Nederlands nl-NL Dutch (Netherlands)
Nederlands nl-BE Flemish (Belgium)
norsk (bokmål) nb-NO Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)
norsk (nynorsk) nn-NO Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway)
português pt-PT Portuguese (Portugal)
português pt-BR Portuguese (Brazil)
polski pl-PL Polish (Poland)
română ro-RO Romanian (Romania)
беларуская be-BY Belarusian (Belarus)
русский ru-RU Russian (Russia)
украї́нська uk-UA Ukrainian (Ukraine)
slovenčina sk-SK Slovak (Slovakia)
slovenski sl-SI Slovenian (Slovenia)
shqip sq-AL Albanian (Albania)
svenska sv-SE Swedish (Sweden)
тоҷикӣ tg-TJ Tajik (Tajikistan)
türkmençe tk-TM Turkmen (Turkmenistan)
Türkçe tr-TR Turkish (Turkey)
Հայերեն hy-AM Armenian (Armenia)
ქართული ka-GE Georgian (Georgia)
日本語 ja-JP Japanese (Japan)
中文 zh-CN Chinese (China)