diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
index 2221abe0894..0d7a4ff5487 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
         # Change setuptools-scm local_scheme to "no-local-version" so the
         # local part of the version isn't included, making the version string
         # compatible with PyPI.
-        sed --in-place "s/node-and-date/no-local-version/g" setup.py
+        sed --in-place "s/node-and-date/no-local-version/g" pyproject.toml
 
     - name: Build source and wheel distributions
       run: |
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 68d2fb48c9f..d470afe6d9b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+local_scheme = "node-and-date"
+fallback_version = "unknown"
+
 [tool.coverage.run]
 omit = ["*/tests/*", "*pygmt/__init__.py"]
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7557aaf1e7d..a7815ccd7da 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@
 PLATFORMS = "Any"
 PYTHON_REQUIRES = ">=3.8"
 INSTALL_REQUIRES = ["numpy>=1.19", "pandas", "xarray", "netCDF4", "packaging"]
-# Configuration for setuptools-scm
-SETUP_REQUIRES = ["setuptools_scm"]
-USE_SCM_VERSION = {"local_scheme": "node-and-date", "fallback_version": "unknown"}
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     setup(
@@ -45,7 +42,6 @@
         fullname=FULLNAME,
         description=DESCRIPTION,
         long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
-        use_scm_version=USE_SCM_VERSION,
         author=AUTHOR,
         author_email=AUTHOR_EMAIL,
         maintainer=MAINTAINER,
@@ -60,5 +56,4 @@
         keywords=KEYWORDS,
         python_requires=PYTHON_REQUIRES,
         install_requires=INSTALL_REQUIRES,
-        setup_requires=SETUP_REQUIRES,
     )