diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp.py
index 81d8430d3af7..9ef900a26712 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import datetime
 import re
 import time
+import zoneinfo
 from typing import Optional
 from typing import Union
 from typing import overload
@@ -166,7 +167,8 @@ def from_utc_datetime(cls, dt: datetime.datetime) -> 'Timestamp':
           "dt has no timezone info " +
           "(https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html" +
           "#aware-and-naive-objects): %s" % dt)
-    if dt.tzinfo != pytz.utc and dt.tzinfo != datetime.timezone.utc:
+    if dt.tzinfo != pytz.utc and dt.tzinfo != datetime.timezone.utc and not (
+        isinstance(dt.tzinfo, zoneinfo.ZoneInfo) and dt.tzinfo.key == 'UTC'):
       raise ValueError('dt not in UTC: %s' % dt)
     duration = dt - cls._epoch_datetime_utc()
     # Avoid total_seconds(): its float result can be off by a microsecond.
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp_test.py
index ebdd42d37029..fd004233398b 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils/timestamp_test.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 import datetime
 import unittest
+import zoneinfo
 
 import pytz
 from google.protobuf import duration_pb2
@@ -86,6 +87,10 @@ def test_from_utc_datetime(self):
         Timestamp.from_utc_datetime(
             datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=pytz.utc)),
         Timestamp(0))
+    self.assertEqual(
+        Timestamp.from_utc_datetime(
+            datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=zoneinfo.ZoneInfo("UTC"))),
+        Timestamp(0))
     with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, r'UTC'):
       Timestamp.from_utc_datetime(
           datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')))