diff --git a/api/requirements/api/requirements.txt b/api/requirements/api/requirements.txt
index 8964dbb3..4e005b84 100644
--- a/api/requirements/api/requirements.txt
+++ b/api/requirements/api/requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ pytz==2017.2
 pyproj==2.1.3
 six==1.10.0
 Werkzeug==0.14.1
-celery==4.2.0
+celery==5.2.2
 requests==2.19.1
 redis==2.10.6
 SQLAlchemy==1.0.11