diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a11cd469e9b9c..5d00684f93552 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ matrix:
     - env:
         - JOB="3.7" ENV_FILE="ci/deps/travis-37.yaml" PATTERN="(not slow and not network)"
 
+    - dist: trusty
+      os: linux
+      sudo: true
+      arch: arm64
+      env:
+        - JOB="3.7" ENV_FILE="ci/deps/travis-37-aarch64.yaml" PATTERN="(not slow and not network)"
+
     - env:
         - JOB="3.6, locale" ENV_FILE="ci/deps/travis-36-locale.yaml" PATTERN="((not slow and not network) or (single and db))" LOCALE_OVERRIDE="zh_CN.UTF-8" SQL="1"
       services:
@@ -89,6 +96,6 @@ script:
 
 after_script:
   - echo "after_script start"
-  - source activate pandas-dev && pushd /tmp && python -c "import pandas; pandas.show_versions();" && popd
-  - ci/print_skipped.py 
+  - source activate pandas-dev && pushd /tmp && if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ];then VAR="python3.7" ; else VAR="python";fi && $VAR -c "import pandas; pandas.show_versions();" && popd
+  - ci/print_skipped.py
   - echo "after_script done"
diff --git a/ci/deps/travis-37-aarch64.yaml b/ci/deps/travis-37-aarch64.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..779d7600b1ca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/deps/travis-37-aarch64.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: pandas-dev
+channels:
+  - defaults
+  - conda-forge
+  - c3i_test
+dependencies:
+  - python=3.7.*
+
+  # tools
+  - cython>=0.29.13
+  - pytest>=5.0.1
+  - pytest-xdist>=1.21
+  - hypothesis>=3.58.0
+
+  # pandas dependencies
+  - botocore>=1.11
+  - numpy
+  - python-dateutil
+  - pytz
+  - pip
+  - pip:
+    - moto
diff --git a/ci/run_tests.sh b/ci/run_tests.sh
index 8020680d617d7..2bbf79ae0c746 100755
--- a/ci/run_tests.sh
+++ b/ci/run_tests.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@
 # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1075
 export PYTHONHASHSEED=$(python -c 'import random; print(random.randint(1, 4294967295))')
 
+if [ -n "$LOCALE_OVERRIDE" ]; then
+    export LC_ALL="$LOCALE_OVERRIDE"
+    export LANG="$LOCALE_OVERRIDE"
+    PANDAS_LOCALE=`python -c 'import pandas; pandas.get_option("display.encoding")'`
+    if [[ "$LOCALE_OVERRIDE" != "$PANDAS_LOCALE" ]]; then
+        echo "pandas could not detect the locale. System locale: $LOCALE_OVERRIDE, pandas detected: $PANDAS_LOCALE"
+        # TODO Not really aborting the tests until https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/23923 is fixed
+        # exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
 if [[ "not network" == *"$PATTERN"* ]]; then
     export http_proxy=http://1.2.3.4 https_proxy=http://1.2.3.4;
 fi
@@ -19,14 +30,22 @@ PYTEST_CMD="pytest -m \"$PATTERN\" -n auto --dist=loadfile -s --strict --duratio
 # Travis does not have have an X server
 if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "linux" ]]; then
     DISPLAY=DISPLAY=:99.0
-    PYTEST_CMD="xvfb-run -e /dev/stdout $PYTEST_CMD"
+    if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+        PYTEST_CMD="xvfb-run -e /dev/stdout pytest -m \"$PATTERN\" -s --strict --durations=10 --junitxml=test-data.xml $TEST_ARGS $COVERAGE pandas"
+    else
+        PYTEST_CMD="xvfb-run -e /dev/stdout $PYTEST_CMD"
+    fi
 fi
 
 echo $PYTEST_CMD
-sh -c "$PYTEST_CMD"
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+   sudo sh -c "$PYTEST_CMD"
+else
+    sh -c "$PYTEST_CMD"
+fi
 
 if [[ "$COVERAGE" && $? == 0 && "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" == "master" ]]; then
     echo "uploading coverage"
-    echo "bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -Z -c -f $COVERAGE_FNAME"
-          bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -Z -c -f $COVERAGE_FNAME
+    echo "bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -Z -c -F $TYPE -f $COVERAGE_FNAME"
+          bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -Z -c -F $TYPE -f $COVERAGE_FNAME
 fi
diff --git a/ci/setup_env.sh b/ci/setup_env.sh
index db28eaea8956e..25f0603944173 100755
--- a/ci/setup_env.sh
+++ b/ci/setup_env.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
 
+IS_SUDO=""
+ARCHICONDA_PYTHON="python3.7"
 # edit the locale file if needed
 if [[ "$(uname)" == "Linux" && -n "$LC_ALL" ]]; then
     echo "Adding locale to the first line of pandas/__init__.py"
@@ -12,8 +14,13 @@ if [[ "$(uname)" == "Linux" && -n "$LC_ALL" ]]; then
     echo
 fi
 
-MINICONDA_DIR="$HOME/miniconda3"
 
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+   MINICONDA_DIR="$HOME/archiconda3"
+   IS_SUDO="sudo"
+else
+   MINICONDA_DIR="$HOME/miniconda3"
+fi
 
 if [ -d "$MINICONDA_DIR" ]; then
     echo
@@ -36,9 +43,24 @@ else
   exit 1
 fi
 
-wget -q "https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-$CONDA_OS.sh" -O miniconda.sh
-chmod +x miniconda.sh
-./miniconda.sh -b
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+   wget -q "https://github.com/Archiconda/build-tools/releases/download/0.2.3/Archiconda3-0.2.3-Linux-aarch64.sh" -O archiconda.sh
+   chmod +x archiconda.sh
+   $IS_SUDO apt-get install python-dev
+   $IS_SUDO apt-get install python3-pip
+   $IS_SUDO apt-get install lib$ARCHICONDA_PYTHON-dev
+   $IS_SUDO apt-get install xvfb
+   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/bin/python
+   ./archiconda.sh -b
+   echo "chmod MINICONDA_DIR"
+   $IS_SUDO chmod -R 777 $MINICONDA_DIR
+   $IS_SUDO cp $MINICONDA_DIR/bin/* /usr/bin/
+   $IS_SUDO rm /usr/bin/lsb_release
+else
+   wget -q "https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-$CONDA_OS.sh" -O miniconda.sh
+   chmod +x miniconda.sh
+   ./miniconda.sh -b
+fi
 
 export PATH=$MINICONDA_DIR/bin:$PATH
 
@@ -50,8 +72,8 @@ echo
 echo "update conda"
 conda config --set ssl_verify false
 conda config --set quiet true --set always_yes true --set changeps1 false
-conda install pip  # create conda to create a historical artifact for pip & setuptools
-conda update -n base conda
+$IS_SUDO conda install pip  # create conda to create a historical artifact for pip & setuptools
+$IS_SUDO conda update -n base conda
 
 echo "conda info -a"
 conda info -a
@@ -91,8 +113,18 @@ conda list
 conda remove --all -q -y -n pandas-dev
 
 echo
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+    $IS_SUDO chmod -R 777 $MINICONDA_DIR
+    $IS_SUDO conda install botocore
+    $IS_SUDO conda install numpy
+    $IS_SUDO conda install python-dateutil=2.8.0
+    $IS_SUDO conda install hypothesis
+    $IS_SUDO conda install pytz
+    $IS_SUDO chmod -R 777 $MINICONDA_DIR
+fi
+
 echo "conda env create -q --file=${ENV_FILE}"
-time conda env create -q --file="${ENV_FILE}"
+time $IS_SUDO conda env create -q --file="${ENV_FILE}"
 
 
 if [[ "$BITS32" == "yes" ]]; then
@@ -106,13 +138,17 @@ source activate pandas-dev
 echo
 echo "remove any installed pandas package"
 echo "w/o removing anything else"
-conda remove pandas -y --force || true
-pip uninstall -y pandas || true
+$IS_SUDO conda remove pandas -y --force || true
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+    $IS_SUDO $ARCHICONDA_PYTHON -m pip uninstall -y pandas || true
+else
+    pip uninstall -y pandas || true
+fi
 
 echo
 echo "remove postgres if has been installed with conda"
 echo "we use the one from the CI"
-conda remove postgresql -y --force || true
+$IS_SUDO conda remove postgresql -y --force || true
 
 echo
 echo "conda list pandas"
@@ -121,7 +157,10 @@ conda list pandas
 # Make sure any error below is reported as such
 
 echo "[Build extensions]"
-python setup.py build_ext -q -i -j2
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+    sudo chmod -R 777 /home/travis/.ccache
+fi
+python setup.py build_ext -q -i
 
 # XXX: Some of our environments end up with old versions of pip (10.x)
 # Adding a new enough version of pip to the requirements explodes the
@@ -130,21 +169,40 @@ python setup.py build_ext -q -i -j2
 # - py35_compat
 # - py36_32bit
 echo "[Updating pip]"
-python -m pip install --no-deps -U pip wheel setuptools
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+    sudo chmod -R 777 /home/travis/archiconda3/envs/pandas-dev/lib/$ARCHICONDA_PYTHON/site-packages
+    $IS_SUDO $ARCHICONDA_PYTHON -m pip install pytest-forked
+    $IS_SUDO $ARCHICONDA_PYTHON -m pip install pytest-xdist
+    $IS_SUDO $ARCHICONDA_PYTHON -m pip install --no-deps -U pip wheel setuptools
+    sudo chmod -R 777 $MINICONDA_DIR
+else
+    python -m pip install --no-deps -U pip wheel setuptools
+fi
 
 echo "[Install pandas]"
-python -m pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
+if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+    $IS_SUDO chmod -R 777 $MINICONDA_DIR
+    $IS_SUDO $ARCHICONDA_PYTHON -m pip install numpy
+    $IS_SUDO $ARCHICONDA_PYTHON -m pip install hypothesis
+    $IS_SUDO chmod -R 777 /home/travis/.cache/
+    $IS_SUDO $ARCHICONDA_PYTHON -m pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
+else
+    python -m pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
+fi
 
 echo
 echo "conda list"
 conda list
 
 # Install DB for Linux
-
 if [[ -n ${SQL:0} ]]; then
   echo "installing dbs"
+  if [ `uname -m` = 'aarch64' ]; then
+    sudo systemctl start mysql
+  else
+    psql -c 'create database pandas_nosetest;' -U postgres
+  fi
   mysql -e 'create database pandas_nosetest;'
-  psql -c 'create database pandas_nosetest;' -U postgres
 else
    echo "not using dbs on non-linux Travis builds or Azure Pipelines"
 fi