diff --git a/ddl/db_partition_test.go b/ddl/db_partition_test.go
index 39c21b0831df5..f67365adc8736 100644
--- a/ddl/db_partition_test.go
+++ b/ddl/db_partition_test.go
@@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ func (s *testIntegrationSuite3) TestCreateTableWithPartition(c *C) {
 	tk.MustGetErrCode(`create table t34 (dt datetime) partition by range (unix_timestamp(dt)) (
 		partition p0 values less than (unix_timestamp('2020-04-04 00:00:00')),
 		partition p1 values less than (unix_timestamp('2020-04-05 00:00:00')));`, tmysql.ErrWrongExprInPartitionFunc)
+
+	// Fix https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/16333
+	tk.MustExec(`create table t35 (dt timestamp) partition by range (unix_timestamp(dt))
+(partition p0 values less than (unix_timestamp('2020-04-15 00:00:00')));`)
 }
 
 func (s *testIntegrationSuite2) TestCreateTableWithHashPartition(c *C) {
diff --git a/ddl/partition.go b/ddl/partition.go
index 01e0092289489..366b025167782 100644
--- a/ddl/partition.go
+++ b/ddl/partition.go
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ func checkPartitionFuncType(ctx sessionctx.Context, s *ast.CreateTableStmt, tblI
 func checkCreatePartitionValue(ctx sessionctx.Context, tblInfo *model.TableInfo) error {
 	pi := tblInfo.Partition
 	defs := pi.Definitions
-	if len(defs) <= 1 {
+	if len(defs) == 0 {
 		return nil
 	}