diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_io.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_io.py
index 80d54fb97f702..cc0f1ed1c0eb9 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_io.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_io.py
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def test04_wkbwriter(self):
 
         # These tests will fail on 3.0.0 because of a bug that was fixed in 3.1:
         # http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/216
-        if not geos_version_info()['version'] == '3.0.0':
+        if not geos_version_info()['version'].startswith('3.0.'):
             # Now setting the output dimensions to be 3
             wkb_w.outdim = 3