diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index da6a9f3137..e251cef4c9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ matplotlib>=3.2
 numpy>=1.20.0
 scipy>=1.8.0
 packaging
-pandas>=1.4.0
+pandas>=1.3.0
 xarray>=0.21.0
 h5netcdf>=1.0.2
 typing_extensions>=4.1.0