diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/lightgbm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/lightgbm/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fee314aa6c3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/lightgbm/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, cmake
+, numpy
+, scipy
+, scikitlearn
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "lightgbm";
+  version = "2.2.3";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "40354d21da6bfa73c7ada4d01b2e0b22eaae00f93e90bdaf3fc423020c273890";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cmake
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    numpy
+    scipy
+    scikitlearn
+  ];
+
+  postConfigure = ''
+    export HOME=$(mktemp -d)
+  '';
+
+  # The pypi package doesn't distribute the tests from the GitHub
+  # repository. It contains c++ tests which don't seem to wired up to
+  # `make check`.
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework";
+    homepage = https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ teh costrouc ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 9ba853f3f3dc..42e22292abb1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2215,6 +2215,8 @@ in {
 
   lightblue = callPackage ../development/python-modules/lightblue { };
 
+  lightgbm = callPackage ../development/python-modules/lightgbm { };
+
   lightning = callPackage ../development/python-modules/lightning { };
 
   jupyter = callPackage ../development/python-modules/jupyter { };