diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3ac0431..34edc91 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     "Pillow",
     "entrypoints",
     "numpy",
-    "pandas",
+    "pandas<2",
     "xarray<2022.6",  # groupby bug was introduced in index refactor: https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6836
     "netcdf4!=1.6.0",  # https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/issues/1175,
 ]