The central and bottom panels in Figure show that the water orientations depend on the metal. The density-weighted orientational distribution, ρ ⟨cos θ ⟩, shows that on Rh, Pt, Pd, and Ag the closest water molecules are preferentially oriented with ⟨θ ⟩ ≈ 120 • corresponding to O-H pointing away from the surface. On Au water does not have a preferential orientation. The outer maximum of the resolved ρ(z) doublet in Pd, Pt, and Rh coincides with orientations of ⟨θ ⟩ = 70 • -75 • from tilted molecules. Interestingly, the middle panel in Figure displays a rather similar trend of water orientation for all the metal surfaces, i.e., the metal type does not affect the averaged water configuration at a distance from the surface. However, the abundance of the water and hence the orientational density depend strongly on the metal-water interaction strength, as discussed in Section "Analyzing interfacial metal-water thermodynamics".