Ratio of rotation period and cycle period P_rot/P_cycl over the Coriolis number Co. The black asterisks indicate P_cycl. The dashed red line indicates the fit Co^−0.98 of Fig. 7 and the dashed black line the transition from antisolar to solar like differential rotation. We include the simulations of Viviani et al. (2018; blue squares, with crosses for wedge runs) and Strugarek et al. (2017; green diamond), the observational studies of Lehtinen et al. (2016; purple crosses) and of Brandenburg et al. (2017; light gray triangles for K dwarfs, dark gray circles for F, G dwarfs, including the Sun: yellow cross).