diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4b9f5c46fb..e919dd916d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "nc-time-axis",  # needed by iris.plot
     "nested-lookup",
     "netCDF4",
-    "numpy!=1.24.3",  # only numpy>=2 built with Python 3.13
+    "numpy!=1.24.3",
     "packaging",
     "pandas",
     "pillow",