diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 969e70882..ec6c7c683 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ examples = [
 ]
 test = [
     "pytest>=5.0",
-    "netCDF4>=1.1.0",
+    "netCDF4>=1.5.8",
     "vcrpy>=3.0",
     "xarray>=0.10.2"
 ]