diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tempita/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tempita/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 718eeb93eb2d..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tempita/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  nose,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage {
-  version = "0.5.3-2016-09-28";
-  format = "setuptools";
-  pname = "tempita";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "agramfort";
-    repo = "tempita";
-    rev = "47414a7c6e46a9a9afe78f0bce2ea299fa84d10";
-    sha256 = "0f33jjjs5rvp7ar2j6ggyfykcrsrn04jaqcq71qfvycf6b7nw3rn";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ nose ];
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/agramfort/tempita";
-    description = "Very small text templating language";
-    license = lib.licenses.mit;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 0b51733f49fd..d888b42fc2cd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   supervise_api = supervise-api; # added 2023-10-11
   suseapi = throw "suseapi has been removed because it is no longer maintained"; # added 2023-02-27
   sysv_ipc = sysv-ipc; # added 2024-01-07
+  tempita = throw "tempita has been removed because it is unmaintained and the upstream repository is gone"; # added 2024-07-29
   tensorflow-bin_2 = tensorflow-bin; # added 2021-11-25
   tensorflow-build_2 = tensorflow-build; # added 2021-11-25
   tensorflow-estimator = tensorflow-estimator-bin; # added 2023-01-17
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 3d0d5b64ead7..ceae5443a597 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -15218,8 +15218,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   tempest = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tempest { };
 
-  tempita = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tempita { };
-
   templateflow = callPackage ../development/python-modules/templateflow { };
 
   tempora = callPackage ../development/python-modules/tempora { };