diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 5223e299aa4..d601dcb074f 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -705,7 +705,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pyrsistent = "Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pysocks = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pytest = "Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pytest-subtests = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pytz = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-pyyaml = "Tim Orling <tim.orling@konsulko.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-qemu-qmp = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-python3-rdflib = "Wang Mingyu <wangmy@fujitsu.com>"
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index 3b05caf50d9..568fd1c6373 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ PTESTS_FAST = "\
     python3-pefile \
     python3-pyasn1 \
     python3-pyopenssl \
-    python3-pytz \
     python3-pyyaml \
     python3-rpds-py \
     python3-tomlkit \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2026.4.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2026.4.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a2eda07a60..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2026.4.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "World timezone definitions, modern and historical"
-HOMEPAGE = "http://pythonhosted.org/pytz"
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=1a67fc46c1b596cce5d21209bbe75999"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools3 ptest-python-pytest
-
-PTEST_PYTEST_DIR = "pytz/tests"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "464303645bafafd72418898368b2429458f709cf1eb6a15372fbcc396b64da63"
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-target += "\
-    python3-datetime \
-    python3-doctest \
-    python3-io \
-    python3-pickle \
-    python3-pprint \
-    python3-threading \
-"
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-
-do_install_ptest:append() {
-	cp -f ${S}/README.rst ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
-}