diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e17d97417..4fe1f497a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ SQLAlchemy==2.0.29
 python-telegram-bot==21.1
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
-arrow==1.3.0
 humanize==4.9.0
 cachetools==5.3.3
 requests==2.31.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f52e52418..504d3b2b7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ setup(
         'ccxt>=4.2.47',
         'SQLAlchemy>=2.0.6',
         'python-telegram-bot>=20.1',
-        'arrow>=1.0.0',
         'humanize>=4.0.0',
         'cachetools',
         'requests',