diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 4f25adf1d..e2cc2a577 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ install_requires =
 	requests >= 2.13.0
 	oauthlib >= 3.1.0
 	jwcrypto >= 0.8.0
-	pytz >= 2024.1
 
 [options.packages.find]
 exclude =
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index f1c07f998..bf945d882 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ deps =
     pytest-xdist
     pytest-mock
     requests
+    pytz; python_version < '3.9'
 passenv =
     PYTEST_ADDOPTS