diff --git a/include/fmt/os.h b/include/fmt/os.h
index 482b1a81dc4a7..ed22399043aee 100644
--- a/include/fmt/os.h
+++ b/include/fmt/os.h
@@ -129,6 +129,24 @@ class error_code {
   int get() const FMT_NOEXCEPT { return value_; }
 };
 
+// A formatter specialization for std::error_code.
+template <typename Char> struct formatter<std::error_code, Char> {
+  template <typename ParseContext>
+  FMT_CONSTEXPR auto parse(ParseContext& ctx) -> decltype(ctx.begin()) {
+    return ctx.begin();
+  }
+
+  template <typename FormatContext>
+  FMT_CONSTEXPR auto format(const std::error_code& ec, FormatContext& ctx) const
+      -> decltype(ctx.out()) {
+    auto out = ctx.out();
+    out = detail::write<Char>(out, to_string_view(ec.category().name()));
+    out = detail::write<Char>(out, Char(':'));
+    out = detail::write<Char>(out, ec.value());
+    return out;
+  }
+};
+
 #ifdef _WIN32
 namespace detail {
 // A converter from UTF-16 to UTF-8.
diff --git a/test/compile-test.cc b/test/compile-test.cc
index 71eddc920e4f5..c5ad45c076a68 100644
--- a/test/compile-test.cc
+++ b/test/compile-test.cc
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 // For the license information refer to format.h.
 
 #include "fmt/compile.h"
+#include "fmt/os.h"
 
 #include <type_traits>
 
@@ -84,6 +85,9 @@ TEST(compile_test, format_default) {
 #  ifdef __cpp_lib_byte
   EXPECT_EQ("42", fmt::format(FMT_COMPILE("{}"), std::byte{42}));
 #  endif
+  EXPECT_EQ("generic:42",
+            fmt::format(FMT_COMPILE("{}"),
+                        std::error_code(42, std::generic_category())));
 }
 
 TEST(compile_test, format_wide_string) {
diff --git a/test/os-test.cc b/test/os-test.cc
index 52b8532f1db3f..f82f17d5cf5a9 100644
--- a/test/os-test.cc
+++ b/test/os-test.cc
@@ -69,6 +69,24 @@ TEST(util_test, utf16_to_utf8_convert) {
             u.convert(fmt::wstring_view(L"foo", INT_MAX + 1u)));
 }
 
+TEST(os_test, format_std_error_code) {
+  EXPECT_EQ("generic:42",
+            fmt::format("{0}", std::error_code(42, std::generic_category())));
+  EXPECT_EQ("system:42",
+            fmt::format("{0}", std::error_code(42, std::system_category())));
+  EXPECT_EQ("system:-42",
+            fmt::format("{0}", std::error_code(-42, std::system_category())));
+}
+
+TEST(os_test, format_std_error_code_wide) {
+  EXPECT_EQ(L"generic:42",
+            fmt::format(L"{0}", std::error_code(42, std::generic_category())));
+  EXPECT_EQ(L"system:42",
+            fmt::format(L"{0}", std::error_code(42, std::system_category())));
+  EXPECT_EQ(L"system:-42",
+            fmt::format(L"{0}", std::error_code(-42, std::system_category())));
+}
+
 TEST(os_test, format_windows_error) {
   LPWSTR message = 0;
   auto result = FormatMessageW(