diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index f423045314..50fd6dd119 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -1122,6 +1122,7 @@ F:	package/panel-mipi-dbi-firmware/
 F:	package/python-aiomqtt/
 F:	package/python-markdown-it-py/
 F:	package/python-mdurl/
+F:	package/python-platformdirs/
 F:	package/python-pyasynchat/
 F:	package/python-pyasyncore/
 F:	support/testing/tests/package/sample_python_networkmanager_goi.py
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 54c7333ea5..6aadb3481b 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1272,6 +1272,7 @@ menu "External python modules"
 	source "package/python-pigpio/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pillow/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pip/Config.in"
+	source "package/python-platformdirs/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-pluggy/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-ply/Config.in"
 	source "package/python-portend/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/python-platformdirs/Config.in b/package/python-platformdirs/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b0cde72585
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-platformdirs/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS
+	bool "python-platformdirs"
+	help
+	  A small Python package for determining appropriate
+	  platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".
+
+	  https://github.com/tox-dev/platformdirs
diff --git a/package/python-platformdirs/python-platformdirs.hash b/package/python-platformdirs/python-platformdirs.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b35d10dba1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-platformdirs/python-platformdirs.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# md5, sha256 from https://pypi.org/pypi/platformdirs/json
+md5  90aef8202386996ce2e4b560a9f1d3e6  platformdirs-4.3.8.tar.gz
+sha256  3d512d96e16bcb959a814c9f348431070822a6496326a4be0911c40b5a74c2bc  platformdirs-4.3.8.tar.gz
+# Locally computed sha256 checksums
+sha256  29e0fd62e929850e86eb28c3fdccf0cefdf4fa94879011cffb3d0d4bed6d4db6  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-platformdirs/python-platformdirs.mk b/package/python-platformdirs/python-platformdirs.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b24d6d78d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-platformdirs/python-platformdirs.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# python-platformdirs
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_VERSION = 4.3.8
+PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_SOURCE = platformdirs-$(PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fe/8b/3c73abc9c759ecd3f1f7ceff6685840859e8070c4d947c93fae71f6a0bf2
+PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_SETUP_TYPE = hatch
+PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+PYTHON_PLATFORMDIRS_DEPENDENCIES = host-python-hatch-vcs
+
+$(eval $(python-package))