diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 285d9d840..60f59281a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "importlib-metadata",
     "packaging",
     "pandas>=1.2.4",
-    "pyarrow>=16.0.0",
+    "pyarrow>=3.0.0",
     "python-dateutil",
     "six>=1.10",
     # Not directly used on the client, but some server-side environments have
diff --git a/requirements-geospatial-py3.9.txt b/requirements-geospatial-py3.9.txt
index 8a2f6a6ba..e39b3a421 100644
--- a/requirements-geospatial-py3.9.txt
+++ b/requirements-geospatial-py3.9.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ fiona==1.10b1
 numpy==1.26.1
 packaging==23.2
 pandas==2.1.1
-pyarrow==16.0.0
+pyarrow==14.0.1
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
 pytz==2023.3.post1
 rasterio==1.4a3
diff --git a/requirements-py3.9.txt b/requirements-py3.9.txt
index 0349fa04f..cd3b52f3d 100644
--- a/requirements-py3.9.txt
+++ b/requirements-py3.9.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ importlib-metadata==7.0.1
 numpy==1.26.4
 packaging==23.2
 pandas==2.2.0
-pyarrow==16.0.0
+pyarrow==15.0.0
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
 pytz==2024.1
 six==1.16.0