diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 63edd180f62..02acde598e7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pandas>=2.0",
     "xarray>=2023.04",
     "netCDF4>=1.7",
-    "packaging",
+    "packaging>=22.0",
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]