diff --git a/doc/whats-new.rst b/doc/whats-new.rst
index 60cf2be873a..4dc7ed7310f 100644
--- a/doc/whats-new.rst
+++ b/doc/whats-new.rst
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ v2025.04.0 (unreleased)
 New Features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+- Added `scipy-stubs <https://github.com/scipy/scipy-stubs>`_ to the ``xarray[types]`` dependencies.
+  By `Joren Hammudoglu <https://github.com/jorenham>`_.
 
 Breaking changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 194d77ca5a6..5494d4ab484 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ parallel = ["dask[complete]"]
 viz = ["cartopy", "matplotlib", "nc-time-axis", "seaborn"]
 types = [
   "pandas-stubs",
+  "scipy-stubs",
   "types-PyYAML",
   "types-Pygments",
   "types-colorama",