diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7d949af0ddd..7cd8efa16ed 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "packaging",
     # --------------------------
     # pandas and related (wanting pandas[performance] without numba as it's 100+MB and not needed)
-    "pandas[excel]>=2.0.3, <2.2",
+    "pandas[excel]>=2.1.4, <2.2",
     "bottleneck", # recommended performance dependency for pandas, see https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/getting_started/install.html#performance-dependencies-recommended
     # --------------------------
     "parsedatetime",