diff --git a/benchmarks/asv.conf.json b/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
index 9bc019bd8e..c5bc616ae1 100644
--- a/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
+++ b/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
             "build": "",
             "numpy": "1.16.5",
             "pandas": "0.25.0",
-            "scipy": "1.4.0",
+            "scipy": "1.5.0",
             // Note: these don't have a minimum in setup.py
             "h5py": "3.1.0",
             "ephem": "3.7.6.0",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6e25d097da..2054f72cea 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
                     'pandas >= 0.25.0',
                     'pytz',
                     'requests',
-                    'scipy >= 1.4.0',
+                    'scipy >= 1.5.0',
                     'h5py',
                     'importlib-metadata; python_version < "3.8"']