diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 393f81b..cbeaa40 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ The `modflow-devtools` package provides a set of tools for developing and testin
    md/download.md
    md/ostags.md
    md/zip.md
-   md/timeit.md
 
 
 .. toctree::
diff --git a/docs/md/timeit.md b/docs/md/timeit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c57ef85..0000000
--- a/docs/md/timeit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# `timeit`
-
-There is a `timeit` decorator function available in the `modflow_devtools.misc` module. Applying it to any function causes a (rough) runtime benchmark to be printed to `stdout` afterwards the function returns. For instance:
-
-```python
-@timeit
-def sleep1():
-    sleep(0.001)
-
-sleep1() # prints e.g. "sleep1 took 1.26 ms"
-```
-
-`timeit` can also directly wrap a function:
-
-```python
-timeit(sleep1)() # prints same as above
-```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modflow_devtools/misc.py b/modflow_devtools/misc.py
index 284a6ed..7dd9210 100644
--- a/modflow_devtools/misc.py
+++ b/modflow_devtools/misc.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 import importlib
 import socket
 import sys
-import time
 import traceback
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-from functools import wraps
 from importlib import metadata
 from os import PathLike, chdir, environ, getcwd
 from os.path import basename, normpath
@@ -444,38 +442,3 @@ def try_metadata() -> bool:
     _has_pkg_cache[pkg] = found
 
     return _has_pkg_cache[pkg]
-
-
-def timeit(f):
-    """
-    Decorator for estimating runtime of any function.
-    Prints estimated time to stdout, in milliseconds.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    f : function
-        Function to time.
-
-    Notes
-    -----
-    Adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/27737385/6514033.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    function
-        The decorated function.
-    """
-
-    @wraps(f)
-    def timed(*args, **kw):
-        ts = time.time()
-        res = f(*args, **kw)
-        te = time.time()
-        if "log_time" in kw:
-            name = kw.get("log_name", f.__name__.upper())
-            kw["log_time"][name] = int((te - ts) * 1000)
-        else:
-            print(f"{f.__name__} took {(te - ts) * 1000:.2f} ms")
-        return res
-
-    return timed
diff --git a/modflow_devtools/test/test_misc.py b/modflow_devtools/test/test_misc.py
index b8ebd40..79ea786 100644
--- a/modflow_devtools/test/test_misc.py
+++ b/modflow_devtools/test/test_misc.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 import os
-import re
 import shutil
 from os import environ
 from pathlib import Path
 from pprint import pprint
-from time import sleep
 from typing import List
 
 import pytest
@@ -17,7 +15,6 @@
     has_pkg,
     set_dir,
     set_env,
-    timeit,
 )
 
 
@@ -286,24 +283,3 @@ def test_has_pkg(virtualenv):
             ).strip()
             == exp
         )
-
-
-def test_timeit1(capfd):
-    def sleep1():
-        sleep(0.001)
-
-    timeit(sleep1)()
-    cap = capfd.readouterr()
-    print(cap.out)
-    assert re.match(r"sleep1 took \d+\.\d+ ms", cap.out)
-
-
-def test_timeit2(capfd):
-    @timeit
-    def sleep1dec():
-        sleep(0.001)
-
-    sleep1dec()
-    cap = capfd.readouterr()
-    print(cap.out)
-    assert re.match(r"sleep1dec took \d+\.\d+ ms", cap.out)