diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/gcsfs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/gcsfs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..483e4a61084
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/gcsfs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, lib, pytestCheckHook, google-auth
+, google-auth-oauthlib, requests, decorator, fsspec, ujson, aiohttp, crcmod
+, pytest-vcr, vcrpy }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "gcsfs";
+  version = "2021.04.0";
+
+  # github sources needed for test data
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "dask";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "sha256-OA43DaQue7R5d6SzfKThEQFEwJndjLfznu1LMubs5fs=";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    google-auth
+    google-auth-oauthlib
+    requests
+    decorator
+    fsspec
+    aiohttp
+    ujson
+    crcmod
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook pytest-vcr vcrpy ];
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "gcsfs" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Convenient Filesystem interface over GCS";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/dask/gcsfs";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.nbren12 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index f22df1c35d9..6a406e91d78 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2660,6 +2660,8 @@ in {
 
   gcovr = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gcovr { };
 
+  gcsfs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gcsfs { };
+
   gdal = toPythonModule (pkgs.gdal.override { pythonPackages = self; });
 
   gdata = callPackage ../development/python-modules/gdata { };