diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7c05ef3af0..7dbefd9042 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ AC_PATH_TOOL(GCOV, gcov)
 AC_PATH_TOOL(LLVM_COV, llvm-cov)
 AC_PATH_PROG(LCOV, lcov)
 dnl Python 3.6 is specified in .python-version and should be used if available, see doc/dependencies.md
-AC_PATH_PROGS([PYTHON], [python3.6 python3.7 python3.8 python3.9 python3 python])
+AC_PATH_PROGS([PYTHON], [python3.6 python3.7 python3.8 python3.9, python3.10, python3 python])
 AC_PATH_PROG(GENHTML, genhtml)
 AC_PATH_PROG([GIT], [git])
 AC_PATH_PROG(CCACHE,ccache)