diff --git a/qutebrowser/misc/checkpyver.py b/qutebrowser/misc/checkpyver.py
index e93a124e5..8317aeb1a 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/misc/checkpyver.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/misc/checkpyver.py
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
 # to stderr.
 def check_python_version():
     """Check if correct python version is run."""
-    if sys.hexversion < 0x03090000:
+    if sys.hexversion < 0x030a0000:
         # We don't use .format() and print_function here just in case someone
         # still has < 2.6 installed.
         version_str = '.'.join(map(str, sys.version_info[:3]))
-        text = ("At least Python 3.9 is required to run qutebrowser, but " +
+        text = ("At least Python 3.10 is required to run qutebrowser, but " +
                 "it's running with " + version_str + ".\n")
 
         show_errors = '--no-err-windows' not in sys.argv
diff --git a/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py b/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py
index d1f1669a8..59ce81496 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/misc/earlyinit.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 """Things which need to be done really early (e.g. before importing Qt).
 
-At this point we can be sure we have all python 3.9 features available.
+At this point we can be sure we have all python 3.10 features available.
 """
 
 try:
diff --git a/tests/end2end/test_invocations.py b/tests/end2end/test_invocations.py
index dc6bb61c3..a974bd6d6 100644
--- a/tests/end2end/test_invocations.py
+++ b/tests/end2end/test_invocations.py
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ def test_launching_with_old_python(python):
     except FileNotFoundError:
         pytest.skip(f"{python} not found")
     assert proc.returncode == 1
-    error = "At least Python 3.9 is required to run qutebrowser"
+    error = "At least Python 3.10 is required to run qutebrowser"
     assert proc.stderr.decode('ascii').startswith(error)
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/misc/test_checkpyver.py b/tests/unit/misc/test_checkpyver.py
index 8bcdf9772..77fe29e35 100644
--- a/tests/unit/misc/test_checkpyver.py
+++ b/tests/unit/misc/test_checkpyver.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import pytest
 from qutebrowser.misc import checkpyver
 
 
-TEXT = (r"At least Python 3.9 is required to run qutebrowser, but it's "
+TEXT = (r"At least Python 3.10 is required to run qutebrowser, but it's "
         r"running with \d+\.\d+\.\d+.")