diff --git a/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml b/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml
index e9daaa45..dad59952 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/automatic_versioning.yml
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
 permissions: read-all
 jobs:
   test_versioning_from_tarball:
-    # ubuntu <= 20.04 is required for python 3.6
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.6', '3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
     steps:
 #         - name: Check out repository
 #           uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check_versions.yml b/.github/workflows/check_versions.yml
index be963ba5..0b555255 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check_versions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check_versions.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
 permissions: read-all
 jobs:
   test_fallback_version_against_tags:
-    # ubuntu <= 20.04 is required for python 3.6
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
     steps:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pip_install.yml b/.github/workflows/pip_install.yml
index 9a24dfe6..bf731e47 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pip_install.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pip_install.yml
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
 permissions: read-all
 jobs:
   test_pip_install:
-    # ubuntu <= 20.04 is required for python 3.6
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.6', '3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
     steps:
         - name: Check out repository
           uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1