diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 53e3fe9eff6..3892ab02497 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "packaging>=20.0",
     "pandas>=1.5.0",
     "pyarrow>=11.0.0", # will become a requirement of pandas. Installing explicitly silences a warning
-    "pyvisa>=1.11.0, <1.16.0",
+    "pyvisa>=1.11.0, <1.17.0",
     "ruamel.yaml>=0.16.0,!=0.16.6",
     "tabulate>=0.9.0",
     "typing_extensions>=4.6.0",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 53bd21f8d88..dfca44a6a1b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     #   pandas
 pytz==2025.2
     # via pandas
-pyvisa==1.15.0
+pyvisa==1.16.0
     # via
     #   qcodes (pyproject.toml)
     #   pyvisa-sim