diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c1381f71..ebbf7a46 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ cycler==0.10.0
 idna==2.9
 joblib==0.14.1
 kiwisolver==1.2.0
-matplotlib==3.2.1
+matplotlib==3.3.4
 nose==1.3.7
 numpy==1.18.5
 pandas==1.0.3
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3c4ed1a4..c3fc44e6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
         'idna>=2.2',
         'joblib>=0.11',
         'kiwisolver>=1.1.0',
-        'matplotlib>=2.0.0',
+        'matplotlib>=3.3.4',
         'numpy>=1.10.1',
         'pandas>=0.17.0',
         'pyparsing>=2.0.4',