diff --git a/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml b/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
index d926e14641959..351e17eb2c550 100644
--- a/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ runs:
     - name: "Setup python"
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: 3.7
+        python-version: 3.8
         cache: 'pip'
         cache-dependency-path: ./dev/breeze/setup*
     - name: Cache breeze
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-images.yml b/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
index c5a3a96a45501..6e6fa47f8817a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: "Setup python"
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: 3.7
+          python-version: 3.8
       - name: "Retrieve defaults from branch_defaults.py"
         # We cannot "execute" the branch_defaults.py python code here because that would be
         # a security problem (we cannot run any code that comes from the sources coming from the PR.