diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 569584daf..5d7eae23c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Mark Hirota
 Matt Good
 Matt Jeffery
 Mattieu Agopian
+Michael Manganiello
 Mikhail Kyshtymov
 Monty Taylor
 Morgan Fainberg
diff --git a/docs/changelog/1139.feature.rst b/docs/changelog/1139.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b8385004c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/1139.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tox will inject the ``TOX_PARALLEL_ENV`` environment variable, set to the current running tox environment name, only when running in parallel mode.
diff --git a/docs/config.rst b/docs/config.rst
index 848700e0e..f3aa8c912 100644
--- a/docs/config.rst
+++ b/docs/config.rst
@@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ tox will inject the following environment variables that you can use to test tha
 - ``TOX_ENV_NAME`` is set to the current running tox environment name
 - ``TOX_ENV_DIR`` is set to the current tox environments working dir.
 - ``TOX_PACKAGE`` the packaging phases outcome path (useful to inspect and make assertion of the built package itself).
+- ``TOX_PARALLEL_ENV`` is set to the current running tox environment name, only when running in parallel mode.
 
 :note: this applies for all tox envs (isolated packaging too) and all external
  commands called (e.g. install command - pip).
diff --git a/src/tox/config/__init__.py b/src/tox/config/__init__.py
index e6e864bbf..bf4252e36 100644
--- a/src/tox/config/__init__.py
+++ b/src/tox/config/__init__.py
@@ -659,7 +659,15 @@ def passenv(testenv_config, value):
         # Flatten the list to deal with space-separated values.
         value = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable([x.split(" ") for x in value]))
 
-        passenv = {"PATH", "PIP_INDEX_URL", "LANG", "LANGUAGE", "LD_LIBRARY_PATH", "TOX_WORK_DIR"}
+        passenv = {
+            "PATH",
+            "PIP_INDEX_URL",
+            "LANG",
+            "LANGUAGE",
+            "LD_LIBRARY_PATH",
+            "TOX_WORK_DIR",
+            str(PARALLEL_ENV_VAR_KEY),
+        }
 
         # read in global passenv settings
         p = os.environ.get("TOX_TESTENV_PASSENV", None)
diff --git a/tests/unit/config/test_config.py b/tests/unit/config/test_config.py
index ba00b06c5..00524bc48 100644
--- a/tests/unit/config/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/unit/config/test_config.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     is_section_substitution,
     parseconfig,
 )
+from tox.config.parallel import ENV_VAR_KEY as PARALLEL_ENV_VAR_KEY
 from tox.venv import VirtualEnv
 
 
@@ -1047,6 +1048,7 @@ def test_passenv_as_multiline_list(self, newconfig, monkeypatch, plat):
         assert "LANG" in envconfig.passenv
         assert "LANGUAGE" in envconfig.passenv
         assert "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" in envconfig.passenv
+        assert PARALLEL_ENV_VAR_KEY in envconfig.passenv
         assert "A123A" in envconfig.passenv
         assert "A123B" in envconfig.passenv