diff --git a/pandas/_libs/src/vendored/numpy/datetime/np_datetime.c b/pandas/_libs/src/vendored/numpy/datetime/np_datetime.c
index 277d01807f2f3..955ce8a67976a 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/src/vendored/numpy/datetime/np_datetime.c
+++ b/pandas/_libs/src/vendored/numpy/datetime/np_datetime.c
@@ -1070,5 +1070,8 @@ void pandas_timedelta_to_timedeltastruct(npy_timedelta td,
  */
 PyArray_DatetimeMetaData
 get_datetime_metadata_from_dtype(PyArray_Descr *dtype) {
-  return (((PyArray_DatetimeDTypeMetaData *)dtype->c_metadata)->meta);
+  #if NPY_ABI_VERSION < 0x02000000
+    #define PyDataType_C_METADATA(dtype) ((dtype)->c_metadata)
+  #endif
+  return ((PyArray_DatetimeDTypeMetaData *)PyDataType_C_METADATA(dtype))->meta;
 }