diff --git a/build/pkgs/pybind11/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/pybind11/checksums.ini
index 66a54f106b5..5b78db42c17 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/pybind11/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/pybind11/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-tarball=pybind11-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=3c75333a9056f0be18eb612803cd46a2bb0c87fc
-sha256=00cd59116a6e8155aecd9174f37ba299d1d397ed4a6b86ac1dfe01b3e40f2cc4
-upstream_url=https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/p/pybind11/pybind11-VERSION.tar.gz
+tarball=pybind11-VERSION-py3-none-any.whl
+sha1=3d927e0ba37bd0af47cd14ec2b52eb796d412806
+sha256=237c41e29157b962835d356b370ededd57594a26d5894a795960f0047cb5caf5
+upstream_url=https://pypi.io/packages/py3/p/pybind11/pybind11-VERSION-py3-none-any.whl
diff --git a/build/pkgs/pybind11/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/pybind11/package-version.txt
index 6ceb272eecd..14239ef1586 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/pybind11/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/pybind11/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.11.1
+2.13.6
diff --git a/build/pkgs/pybind11/spkg-install.in b/build/pkgs/pybind11/spkg-install.in
deleted file mode 100644
index deba1bb42bb..00000000000
--- a/build/pkgs/pybind11/spkg-install.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-cd src && sdh_pip_install .
diff --git a/build/pkgs/pybind11/version_requirements.txt b/build/pkgs/pybind11/version_requirements.txt
index 6c44c4bd07e..ddd5ff5f7bc 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/pybind11/version_requirements.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/pybind11/version_requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-pybind11 >=2.6
+pybind11>=2.13.2,<2.14.0
+# see https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/maintenance/1.15.x/pyproject.toml