diff --git a/packages/py-quantities/package.py b/packages/py-quantities/package.py
index fd63569ce89abc7fbbd6624031905fd957b94216..ffe38173d9ee0e877cb4186d8258da672e9bcc79 100644
--- a/packages/py-quantities/package.py
+++ b/packages/py-quantities/package.py
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ class PyQuantities(PythonPackage):
     """Support for physical quantities with units, based on numpy"""
 
     homepage = "https://python-quantities.readthedocs.org"
-    pypi = "quantities/quantities-0.12.1.tar.gz"
+    pypi = "quantities/quantities-0.16.0.tar.gz"
     maintainers = ['apdavison']
-
+    
+    version('0.16.0', sha256='211cce2d268da7e202abab5c2533ce3200ff619dd8ac2a3cd98f861b8a57c6eb')
     version('0.15.0', sha256='9ea31e2a0d7517cf24d546b14146def9292639993a616cca61b875ef796b4b2b')
     version('0.14.1', sha256='efeafffc0c0364f891a9327239cd12496bccb55cd037a6d1bf44de706f722877')
     version('0.13.0', sha256='0fde20115410de21cefa786f3aeae69c1b51bb19ee492190324c1da705e61a81')
diff --git a/spack.yaml b/spack.yaml
index 6d3c6c78d1217d73f528b2a834edfa4efec0bb1a..6ffab1768d24255ac41ff9f86d7b4dac790ad493 100644
--- a/spack.yaml
+++ b/spack.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ spack:
     - py-pynn@0.12.3 +mpi
     - py-pyunicore@1.1.1
     - py-quantities-scidash@0.12.4.3
-    - py-quantities@0.15.0
+    - py-quantities@0.16.0
     - py-siibra@1.0a9
     - py-snudda@2.0.1
     - py-spynnaker@7.0.0