diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yaml
index 2919ee004..cc4945910 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipeline.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yaml
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ steps:
   - <<: *common
     <<: *docker
     label: ":golang: Go runtime tests"
-    command: make RUNTIME_LOG_DIR=/tmp/$${BUILDKITE_JOB_ID} go1.16-runtime-tests
+    command: make RUNTIME_LOG_DIR=/tmp/$${BUILDKITE_JOB_ID} go1.20-runtime-tests
     parallelism: 10
     agents:
       <<: *platform_specific_agents
diff --git a/images/runtimes/go1.16/Dockerfile.x86_64 b/images/runtimes/go1.20/Dockerfile.x86_64
similarity index 87%
rename from images/runtimes/go1.16/Dockerfile.x86_64
rename to images/runtimes/go1.20/Dockerfile.x86_64
index d454dfcfb..94efb9cfd 100644
--- a/images/runtimes/go1.16/Dockerfile.x86_64
+++ b/images/runtimes/go1.20/Dockerfile.x86_64
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM golang:1.16
+FROM golang:1.20
 
 # Compile the tests during build to save time during testing.
 RUN ["go", "tool", "dist", "test", "-compile-only"]
diff --git a/test/runtimes/BUILD b/test/runtimes/BUILD
index 7d0f236cb..51791d4d4 100644
--- a/test/runtimes/BUILD
+++ b/test/runtimes/BUILD
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ package(
 )
 
 runtime_test(
-    name = "go1.16",
-    exclude_file = "exclude/go1.16.csv",
+    name = "go1.20",
+    exclude_file = "exclude/go1.20.csv",
     lang = "go",
     shard_count = more_shards,
 )
diff --git a/test/runtimes/exclude/go1.16.csv b/test/runtimes/exclude/go1.20.csv
similarity index 100%
rename from test/runtimes/exclude/go1.16.csv
rename to test/runtimes/exclude/go1.20.csv