diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 012ae4d0..4ea1ed88 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2c8ef5d1..c90286a9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "fhirclient"
-requires-python = ">= 3.8"
+requires-python = ">= 3.9"
 dependencies = [
     "requests >= 2.4",
 ]