diff --git a/tests/test_hist_plot.py b/tests/test_hist_plot.py
index 1eb7af46b..8654fb11e 100644
--- a/tests/test_hist_plot.py
+++ b/tests/test_hist_plot.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 from coffea.util import numpy as np
 
+pytest.importorskip("cupy")
+
 url = (
     "https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot3/blob/master/tests/samples/HZZ.root?raw=true"
 )