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Following the accepted solution by Peter Grill for this question, I added the following line to vertically align my subplots:

\pgfplotsset{yticklabel style={text width=3em,align=right}}

This solution works for fixing the slight misalignment between the two plots, but it also messes up the y-tick labels, making them overlap the plot.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{subfig}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17}

\begin{document}

\definecolor{bblue}{HTML}{4F81BD}
\definecolor{rred}{HTML}{C0504D}
\definecolor{ppurple}{HTML}{9F4C7C}

\pgfplotsset{yticklabel style={text width=3em,align=right}}
\begin{figure}[]
    \centering
    \subfloat[]{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \begin{axis}[
            width = 0.9\textwidth,
            height = 8cm,
            xtick = data,
            enlarge x limits = 0.10,
            major x tick style = transparent,
            symbolic x coords = {2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020},
            ymajorgrids = true,
            ylabel = {Gastos Totais (R\$)},
            y coord trafo/.code = {\pgfmathparse{\pgfmathresult/1000000}},
            yticklabel = {\pgfmathprintnumber{\tick}\,mi},
            scaled y ticks = false,
            ybar = 2*\pgflinewidth,
            ymin = 0,
            bar width = 10pt,
            legend cell align = left,
            legend style = {
                at = {(1, 1.05)},
                anchor = south east,
                column sep = 1ex
            },
            /pgf/number format/.cd,
                1000 sep = {.}
            ]
            \addplot[style = {bblue, fill = bblue, mark = none}]
                coordinates {(2010, 134148978.40)
                             (2011, 163850342.64)
                             (2012, 189780916.97)
                             (2013, 226166578.45)
                             (2014, 246515645.81)
                             (2015, 313435568.42)
                             (2016, 321922725.99)
                             (2017, 351241496.32)
                             (2018, 348859916.86)
                             (2019, 464608106.68)
                             (2020, 316765254.56)};
            \addplot[style = {rred, fill = rred, mark = none}]
                coordinates {(2010, 584857230.67)
                             (2011, 633624150.04)
                             (2012, 675257494.54)
                             (2013, 730684305.39)
                             (2014, 837961674.33)
                             (2015, 890103343.15)
                             (2016, 937943259.40)
                             (2017, 988067801.53)
                             (2018, 1043622588.84)
                             (2019, 1264544768.36)
                             (2020, 844383399.89)};
            \legend{Defensoria Pública, Ministério Público}
        \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}%
    }
    
    \subfloat[]{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \begin{axis}[
            width = 0.9\textwidth,
            height = 6cm,
            grid = both,
            xtick = data,
            enlarge x limits = 0.10,
            symbolic x coords = {2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020},
            ylabel = {Diferença (R\$)},
            y coord trafo/.code={\pgfmathparse{\pgfmathresult/1000000}},
            yticklabel = \pgfmathprintnumber{\tick}\,mi,
            scaled y ticks = false
            ]
            \addplot[style = {ppurple, mark = *}]
                coordinates {(2010, 450708252.27)
                             (2011, 469773807.40)
                             (2012, 485476577.57)
                             (2013, 504517726.94)
                             (2014, 591446028.52)
                             (2015, 576667774.73)
                             (2016, 616020533.41)
                             (2017, 636826305.21)
                             (2018, 694762671.98)
                             (2019, 799936661.68)
                             (2020, 527618145.33)};
        \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}%
    }
    \caption*{My Caption}
    \label{fig:gastos-mpdp}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Generates the following image:

enter image description here

Commenting out that light aligns the labels and misaligns the plots. I've tried using a table environment instead of figure and subfloats but I get the exact same behavior.

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  • 3em in \pgfplotsset{yticklabel style={text width=3em,align=right}} is a suggestion that worked in the accepted answer. You can try e.g. \pgfplotsset{yticklabel style={text width=4em,align=right}}.
    – user228539
    Nov 12, 2020 at 1:25

1 Answer 1

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If the problem is aligning diagrams, the use of tikzpicture option trim axis left can be solution:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17}

\definecolor{bblue}{HTML}{4F81BD}
\definecolor{rred}{HTML}{C0504D}
\definecolor{ppurple}{HTML}{9F4C7C}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[]
\pgfplotsset{% common diagrams' options/parameters
    %yticklabel style={text width=3em,align=right},
    width = 0.9\textwidth,
    xtick = data,
    enlarge x limits = 0.10,
    symbolic x coords = {2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020},
    yticklabel = \pgfmathprintnumber{\tick}\,mi,
    scaled y ticks = false,
    y coord trafo/.code = {\pgfmathparse{\pgfmathresult/1000000}},
    tick label style = {font=\footnotesize}
    /pgf/number format/.cd,1000 sep = {.}
            }
\centering
    \subfloat[]{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[trim axis left]
        \begin{axis}[
            height = 8cm,
            major x tick style = transparent,
            ymajorgrids = true,
            ylabel = {Gastos Totais (R\$)},
            ybar = 2*\pgflinewidth,
            bar width = 8pt,
            legend style = {at = {(1, 1.05)},
                            anchor = south east,
                            column sep = 1ex
                            },
            ]
            \addplot[style = {bblue, fill = bblue, mark = none}]
                coordinates {(2010, 134148978.40)
                             (2011, 163850342.64)
                             (2012, 189780916.97)
                             (2013, 226166578.45)
                             (2014, 246515645.81)
                             (2015, 313435568.42)
                             (2016, 321922725.99)
                             (2017, 351241496.32)
                             (2018, 348859916.86)
                             (2019, 464608106.68)
                             (2020, 316765254.56)};
            \addplot[style = {rred, fill = rred, mark = none}]
                coordinates {(2010, 584857230.67)
                             (2011, 633624150.04)
                             (2012, 675257494.54)
                             (2013, 730684305.39)
                             (2014, 837961674.33)
                             (2015, 890103343.15)
                             (2016, 937943259.40)
                             (2017, 988067801.53)
                             (2018, 1043622588.84)
                             (2019, 1264544768.36)
                             (2020, 844383399.89)};
            \legend{Defensoria Pública, Ministério Público}
        \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}%
    }

    \subfloat[]{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[trim axis left]
        \begin{axis}[
            height = 6cm,
            grid = both,
            ylabel = {Diferença (R\$)},
            ]
            \addplot[style = {ppurple, mark = *}]
                coordinates {(2010, 450708252.27)
                             (2011, 469773807.40)
                             (2012, 485476577.57)
                             (2013, 504517726.94)
                             (2014, 591446028.52)
                             (2015, 576667774.73)
                             (2016, 616020533.41)
                             (2017, 636826305.21)
                             (2018, 694762671.98)
                             (2019, 799936661.68)
                             (2020, 527618145.33)};
        \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}%
    }
    \caption*{My Caption}
    \label{fig:gastos-mpdp}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

enter image description here

In comparison to your MWE the following changes has been done:

  • Added is figure position option (instead [], which throw warning No positions in optional float specifier is used [htp]).
  • Common options of both pictures are collected in \tikzset after \begin{figure}[htp]. By this is eliminated error dimension is to large.
  • Width of ybar is reduced to 8pt (for better visibilities of bar groups).
  • Font size of tick labels is reduced to \footnotesize.

If you more prefer that the distance between of y axis labels from diagram are equal at both images, than you need to uncomment yticklabel style=... in the common tikzset and remove tikzpicture options [trim axis left]

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  • Works great, and also solved other issues I was looking at. Although I think you pasted in the wrong version of the solution because it appears to be missing [htp] and a comma next to {font=\footnotesize}. Nov 12, 2020 at 15:48

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