diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index dd83deb..0287c28 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # borrowing from https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-build-and-deploy-a-flask-application-using-docker-on-ubuntu-18-04
-FROM python:3.9
+FROM python:3.13
 #ENV STATIC_URL /static
 #ENV STATIC_PATH /var/www/app/static
 # will be overwritten by whatever volume we attach (for dev), but (I believe) in prod we have no volumne, so grab all the files at the start