diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mullvad-closest/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mullvad-closest/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 83d249fe55d8..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mullvad-closest/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  setuptools,
-  click,
-  geopy,
-  ping3,
-  requests,
-  tabulate,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage {
-  pname = "mullvad-closest";
-  version = "unstable-2023-07-09";
-  pyproject = true;
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "Ch00k";
-    repo = "mullvad-closest";
-    rev = "894d2075a520fcad238256725245030374693a16";
-    hash = "sha256-scJiYjEmnDDElE5rHdPbnnuNjjRB0/X3vNGLoi2MAmo=";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ setuptools ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    click
-    geopy
-    ping3
-    requests
-    tabulate
-  ];
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "mullvad_closest" ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Find Mullvad servers with the lowest latency at your location";
-    mainProgram = "mullvad-closest";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/Ch00k/mullvad-closest";
-    license = lib.licenses.unlicense;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ siraben ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 9f7e1174d736..a55bffa7e50b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1143,6 +1143,7 @@ mapAliases {
   mrxvt = throw "'mrxvt' has been removed due to lack of maintainence upstream"; # Added 2025-09-25
   msgpack = throw "msgpack has been split into msgpack-c and msgpack-cxx"; # Added 2025-09-14
   msp430NewlibCross = throw "'msp430NewlibCross' has been renamed to/replaced by 'msp430Newlib'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
+  mullvad-closest = throw "'mullvad-closest' has been removed as it was unmaintained. Consider using 'mullvad-compass' instead."; # Added 2026-01-13
   multipass = throw "multipass was dropped since it was unmaintained."; # Added 2025-11-29
   mumps_par = throw "'mumps_par' has been renamed to/replaced by 'mumps-mpi'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   mustache-tcl = throw "'mustache-tcl' has been renamed to/replaced by 'tclPackages.mustache-tcl'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ba7e94ee8088..d19765190c6d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9020,8 +9020,6 @@ with pkgs;
     mullvad
     ;
 
-  mullvad-closest = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication mullvad-closest;
-
   napalm =
     with python3Packages;
     toPythonApplication (
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 0378e92e1de0..55eb3d572c60 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ mapAliases {
   mne-python = throw "'mne-python' has been renamed to/replaced by 'mne'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29
   mpris-server = throw "mpris-server was removed because it is unused"; # added 2025-10-31
   msldap-bad = throw "'msldap-bad' has been renamed to/replaced by 'badldap'"; # added 2025-11-06
+  mullvad-closest = throw "'mullvad-closest' has been removed as it was unmaintained. Consider using 'mullvad-compass' instead."; # Added 2026-01-13
   multi_key_dict = throw "'multi_key_dict' has been renamed to/replaced by 'multi-key-dict'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29
   mutag = throw "mutag has been removed because it is unmaintained since 2018"; # added 2025-05-25
   net2grid = throw "'net2grid' has been renamed to/replaced by 'gridnet'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index a2bbbc404c6b..0577d750f7fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10110,8 +10110,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   mullvad-api = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mullvad-api { };
 
-  mullvad-closest = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mullvad-closest { };
-
   mulpyplexer = callPackage ../development/python-modules/mulpyplexer { };
 
   multi-key-dict = callPackage ../development/python-modules/multi-key-dict { };