diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-crontab/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-crontab/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9322697eb3f8..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-crontab/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  django,
-  setuptools,
-  pytestCheckHook,
-  pytest-django,
-  mock,
-  nose,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "django-crontab";
-  version = "0.7.1";
-  format = "pyproject";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "kraiz";
-    repo = "django-crontab";
-    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-qX+N3SMUyhMWoWluRCeOPGYKCMBnjg61P281HXHkfJk=";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    django
-    setuptools
-  ];
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [
-    django
-    mock
-    nose
-    pytestCheckHook
-    pytest-django
-  ];
-
-  # Tests currently fail with: RuntimeError: setup_test_environment() was
-  # already called and can't be called again without first calling
-  # teardown_test_environment()
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = "tests.settings";
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "django_crontab" ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Simple crontab powered job scheduling for Django";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/kraiz/django-crontab";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ onny ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 56a614449c84..559311311672 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   django_compat = django-compat; # added 2023-07-25
   django-compat = throw "django-compat has been removed. It provided forward/backport compat for django 1.x, which is long end of life."; # added 2023-07-26
   django_contrib_comments = django-contrib-comments; # added 2023-07-25
+  django-crontab = throw "django-crontabe has been removed beacause it is unmaintained since 2018"; # added 2024-08-21
   django-discover-runner = throw "django-discover-runner was removed because it is no longer maintained."; # added 2022-11-21
   django_environ = django-environ; # added 2021-12-25
   django_extensions = django-extensions; # added 2022-01-09
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 5b1d092c32ac..3ab706a59528 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3309,8 +3309,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   django-crispy-forms = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-crispy-forms { };
 
-  django-crontab = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-crontab { };
-
   django-cryptography = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-cryptography { };
 
   django-csp = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-csp { };