diff --git a/xarray/tests/test_dataarray.py b/xarray/tests/test_dataarray.py
index d4f7b0f096f..e5cb1cc1349 100644
--- a/xarray/tests/test_dataarray.py
+++ b/xarray/tests/test_dataarray.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 import pandas as pd
 import pytest
 from packaging.version import Version
-from pandas.core.computation.ops import UndefinedVariableError
 
 import xarray as xr
 from xarray import (
@@ -52,6 +51,13 @@
     source_ndarray,
 )
 
+try:
+    from pandas.errors import UndefinedVariableError
+except ImportError:
+    # TODO: remove once we stop supporting pandas<1.4.3
+    from pandas.core.computation.ops import UndefinedVariableError
+
+
 pytestmark = [
     pytest.mark.filterwarnings("error:Mean of empty slice"),
     pytest.mark.filterwarnings("error:All-NaN (slice|axis) encountered"),
diff --git a/xarray/tests/test_dataset.py b/xarray/tests/test_dataset.py
index a2c1ae1fc12..6d07787e8e3 100644
--- a/xarray/tests/test_dataset.py
+++ b/xarray/tests/test_dataset.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 import pytest
-from pandas.core.computation.ops import UndefinedVariableError
 from pandas.core.indexes.datetimes import DatetimeIndex
 
 import xarray as xr
@@ -57,6 +56,13 @@
     source_ndarray,
 )
 
+try:
+    from pandas.errors import UndefinedVariableError
+except ImportError:
+    # TODO: remove once we stop supporting pandas<1.4.3
+    from pandas.core.computation.ops import UndefinedVariableError
+
+
 try:
     import dask.array as da
 except ImportError: