diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 285217e..9c4973d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index a5e7ac2..fbdf8c1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e0ed6fc..afdb40f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ### Internal
 
 - Add a GitHub Actions workflow to run Codex review on pull requests.
+- Drop Python 3.9 from test matrices and tooling targets.
 
 ## 1.19.0 - 2026-01-30
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 939b997..ecd8a1e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "litecli"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "CLI for SQLite Databases with auto-completion and syntax highlighting."
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.9"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 license = { text = "BSD" }
 authors = [{ name = "dbcli", email = "litecli-users@googlegroups.com" }]
 urls = { "homepage" = "https://github.com/dbcli/litecli" }
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ litecli = ["liteclirc", "AUTHORS"]
 line-length = 140
 
 [tool.ty.environment]
-python-version = "3.9"
+python-version = "3.10"
 root = [".", "litecli", "litecli/packages", "litecli/packages/special"]