diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index fa71202f5..6de76b21a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ install_requires =
     pymultihash==0.8.2  # for libp2p-stubs
     pynacl==1.5.0
     python-dateutil==2.8.2
-    pytz==2021.3
+    pytz==2023.3
     pyyaml==6.0
     redis[hiredis]==4.5.4
     requests==2.28.1