diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
     url="https://github.com/ecmwf/cfgrib",
     packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
     include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=["attrs>=19.2", "cffi", "click", "eccodes", "numpy"],
+    install_requires=["attrs>=19.2", "click", "eccodes", "numpy"],
     python_requires=">=3.5",
     extras_require={
         "xarray": ["xarray>=0.12.0"],
Drop cffi from setup dependencies