diff --git a/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc b/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc
index 4435556b2c..92183897c7 100644
--- a/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc
+++ b/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST_META_PYTHON = "\
     python3-pytest-picked \
     python3-pytest-sugar \
     python3-pytoml \
+    python3-pytz \
     python3-pyyaml-include \
     python3-pydbus \
     python3-pyzmq \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2026.4.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2026.4.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a2eda07a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pytz_2026.4.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+SUMMARY = "World timezone definitions, modern and historical"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://pythonhosted.org/pytz"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=1a67fc46c1b596cce5d21209bbe75999"
+
+inherit pypi setuptools3 ptest-python-pytest
+
+PTEST_PYTEST_DIR = "pytz/tests"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "464303645bafafd72418898368b2429458f709cf1eb6a15372fbcc396b64da63"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:class-target += "\
+    python3-datetime \
+    python3-doctest \
+    python3-io \
+    python3-pickle \
+    python3-pprint \
+    python3-threading \
+"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+do_install_ptest:append() {
+	cp -f ${S}/README.rst ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
+}