diff --git a/pandas/core/tools/datetimes.py b/pandas/core/tools/datetimes.py
index 6a8c63fe8c5fe..97d054df8287f 100644
--- a/pandas/core/tools/datetimes.py
+++ b/pandas/core/tools/datetimes.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     iNaT,
     nat_strings,
     parsing,
-    timezones,
+    timezones as libtimezones,
 )
 from pandas._libs.tslibs.parsing import (
     DateParseError,
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ def _convert_listlike_datetimes(
     # NB: this must come after unit transformation
     orig_arg = arg
     try:
-        arg, _ = maybe_convert_dtype(arg, copy=False, tz=timezones.maybe_get_tz(tz))
+        arg, _ = maybe_convert_dtype(arg, copy=False, tz=libtimezones.maybe_get_tz(tz))
     except TypeError:
         if errors == "coerce":
             npvalues = np.array(["NaT"], dtype="datetime64[ns]").repeat(len(arg))