diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pykdtree/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pykdtree/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..86524b6002d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pykdtree/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, numpy, nose, openmp }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pykdtree";
+  version = "1.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "79351b79087f473f83fb27a5cd552bd1056f2dfa7acec5d4a68f35a7cbea6776";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ openmp ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ nose ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "kd-tree implementation for fast nearest neighbour search in Python";
+    homepage = https://github.com/storpipfugl/pykdtree;
+    license = licenses.lgpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ psyanticy ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index ea308ca1590..2c4ab7805bd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -384,6 +384,10 @@ in {
     callPackage = pkgs.callPackage;
   };
 
+  pykdtree = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pykdtree {
+    inherit (pkgs.llvmPackages) openmp;
+  };
+
   pyparser = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyparser { };
 
   pyqt4 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyqt/4.x.nix {