diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d068f7c828..5954b0dca6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ thiserror = "1"
 unescape = "0.1.0" # for escaped-character-handling
 url = "2.4.1" # the non-existent std::web
 walkdir = "2" # directory recursion
+chrono = "0.4.35" # conversions to chrono data structures
 
 [profile.dev]
 # Only include line tables in debuginfo. This reduces the size of target/ (after
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2020148e41..34b4d0f00d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ ASCII nor UTF-8 (as Postgres will then accept but ignore non-ASCII bytes).
 For best results, always use PGRX with UTF-8, and set database encodings
 explicitly upon database creation.
 
+To easily convert `pgrx` temporal types (`pgrx::TimestampWithTimezone`, etc)
+to [`chrono`] compatible types, enable the `chrono` feature.
+
 ## Digging Deeper
 
  - [cargo-pgrx sub-command](cargo-pgrx/)
diff --git a/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml b/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml
index 405723d688..2ee19a97de 100644
--- a/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ pg_test = [ ]
 proptest = [ "dep:proptest" ]
 cshim = [ "pgrx/cshim" ]
 no-schema-generation = [ "pgrx/no-schema-generation", "pgrx-macros/no-schema-generation" ]
+chrono = [ "dep:chrono", "pgrx/chrono" ]
 nightly = [ "pgrx/nightly" ]
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ postgres = "0.19.7"
 proptest = { version = "1", optional = true }
 sysinfo = "0.29.10"
 rand = "0.8.5"
+chrono = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 [dependencies.pgrx] # Not unified in workspace due to default-features key
 path = "../pgrx"
diff --git a/pgrx-tests/src/tests/chrono_tests.rs b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/chrono_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7fe65ac61a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/chrono_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+//! Tests for the `chrono` features of `cargo-pgrx`
+//!
+#![cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+
+#[cfg(any(test, feature = "pg_test"))]
+#[pgrx::pg_schema]
+mod tests {
+    #[allow(unused_imports)]
+    use crate as pgrx_tests;
+
+    use std::result::Result;
+
+    use chrono::{Datelike as _, Timelike as _, Utc};
+
+    use pgrx::pg_test;
+    use pgrx::DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    // Utility class for errors
+    type DtcResult<T> = Result<T, DateTimeConversionError>;
+
+    /// Ensure simple conversion ([`pgrx::Date`] -> [`chrono::NaiveDate`]) works
+    #[pg_test]
+    fn chrono_simple_date_conversion() -> DtcResult<()> {
+        let original = pgrx::Date::new(1970, 1, 1)?;
+        let d = chrono::NaiveDate::try_from(original)?;
+        assert_eq!(d.year(), original.year(), "year matches");
+        assert_eq!(d.month(), 1, "month matches");
+        assert_eq!(d.day(), 1, "day matches");
+        let backwards = pgrx::Date::try_from(d)?;
+        assert_eq!(backwards, original);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Ensure simple conversion ([`pgrx::Time`] -> [`chrono::NaiveTime`]) works
+    #[pg_test]
+    fn chrono_simple_time_conversion() -> DtcResult<()> {
+        let original = pgrx::Time::new(12, 1, 59.0000001)?;
+        let d = chrono::NaiveTime::try_from(original)?;
+        assert_eq!(d.hour(), 12, "hours match");
+        assert_eq!(d.minute(), 1, "minutes match");
+        assert_eq!(d.second(), 59, "seconds match");
+        assert_eq!(d.nanosecond(), 0, "nanoseconds are zero (pg only supports microseconds)");
+        let backwards = pgrx::Time::try_from(d)?;
+        assert_eq!(backwards, original);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Ensure simple conversion ([`pgrx::Timestamp`] -> [`chrono::NaiveDateTime`]) works
+    #[pg_test]
+    fn chrono_simple_timestamp_conversion() -> DtcResult<()> {
+        let original = pgrx::Timestamp::new(1970, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.0)?;
+        let d = chrono::NaiveDateTime::try_from(original)?;
+        assert_eq!(d.hour(), 1, "hours match");
+        assert_eq!(d.minute(), 1, "minutes match");
+        assert_eq!(d.second(), 1, "seconds match");
+        assert_eq!(d.nanosecond(), 0, "nanoseconds are zero (pg only supports microseconds)");
+        let backwards = pgrx::Timestamp::try_from(d)?;
+        assert_eq!(backwards, original, "NaiveDateTime -> Timestamp return conversion failed");
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Ensure simple conversion ([`pgrx::TimestampWithTimeZone`] -> [`chrono::DateTime<Utc>`]) works
+    #[pg_test]
+    fn chrono_simple_datetime_with_time_zone_conversion() -> DtcResult<()> {
+        let original = pgrx::TimestampWithTimeZone::with_timezone(1970, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.0, "utc")?;
+        let d = chrono::DateTime::<Utc>::try_from(original)?;
+        assert_eq!(d.hour(), 1, "hours match");
+        assert_eq!(d.minute(), 1, "minutes match");
+        assert_eq!(d.second(), 1, "seconds match");
+        assert_eq!(d.nanosecond(), 0, "nanoseconds are zero (pg only supports microseconds)");
+        let backwards = pgrx::TimestampWithTimeZone::try_from(d)?;
+        assert_eq!(backwards, original);
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs
index f433f217c2..b3c12671b8 100644
--- a/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs
+++ b/pgrx-tests/src/tests/mod.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ mod attributes_tests;
 mod bgworker_tests;
 mod bytea_tests;
 mod cfg_tests;
+#[cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+mod chrono_tests;
 mod composite_type_tests;
 mod datetime_tests;
 mod default_arg_value_tests;
diff --git a/pgrx/Cargo.toml b/pgrx/Cargo.toml
index fb1ed66035..ec017445be 100644
--- a/pgrx/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pgrx/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,15 +28,16 @@ crate-type = [ "rlib" ]
 
 [features]
 default = [ "cshim" ]
+chrono = [ "dep:chrono" ]
 cshim = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/cshim" ]
 pg12 = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/pg12" ]
 pg13 = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/pg13" ]
 pg14 = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/pg14" ]
 pg15 = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/pg15" ]
 pg16 = [ "pgrx-pg-sys/pg16" ]
+nightly = []    # For features and functionality which require nightly Rust - for example, std::mem::allocator.
 no-schema-generation = ["pgrx-macros/no-schema-generation", "pgrx-sql-entity-graph/no-schema-generation"]
 unsafe-postgres = []     # when trying to compile against something that looks like Postgres but claims to be different
-nightly = []    # For features and functionality which require nightly Rust - for example, std::mem::allocator.
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 features = ["pg14", "cshim"]
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ enum-map = "2.6.3"
 atomic-traits = "0.3.0" # PgAtomic and shmem init
 bitflags = "2.4.0" # BackgroundWorker
 bitvec = "1.0" # processing array nullbitmaps
+chrono = { workspace = true, optional = true } # Conversions to chrono date time types 
 heapless = "0.8" # shmem and PgLwLock
 libc.workspace = true # FFI type compat
 seahash = "4.1.0" # derive(PostgresHash)
diff --git a/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/chrono.rs b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/chrono.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2104ada8b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/chrono.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+//! This module contains implementations and functionality that enables [`pgrx`] types (ex. [`pgrx::datum::Date`])
+//! to be converted to [`chrono`] data types (ex. [`chrono::Date`])
+//!
+//! Note that `chrono` has no reasonable analog for the `time with timezone` (i.e. [`pgrx::TimeWithTimeZone`]), so there are no added conversions for that type outside of the ones already implemented.
+#![cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+
+use core::convert::Infallible;
+use core::num::TryFromIntError;
+use std::convert::TryFrom;
+
+use chrono::{DateTime, Datelike, NaiveDate, NaiveDateTime, NaiveTime, Timelike, Utc};
+
+use crate::datum::datetime_support::DateTimeConversionError;
+use crate::datum::{Date, Time, Timestamp, TimestampWithTimeZone};
+
+/// Convenience type for [`Result`]s that fail with a [`DateTimeConversionError`]
+type DtcResult<T> = Result<T, DateTimeConversionError>;
+
+impl From<TryFromIntError> for DateTimeConversionError {
+    fn from(_tfie: TryFromIntError) -> Self {
+        DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<Infallible> for DateTimeConversionError {
+    fn from(_i: Infallible) -> Self {
+        DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow
+    }
+}
+
+impl TryFrom<Date> for NaiveDate {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(d: Date) -> DtcResult<NaiveDate> {
+        NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(d.year(), d.month().into(), d.day().into())
+            .ok_or_else(|| DateTimeConversionError::InvalidFormat)
+    }
+}
+
+impl TryFrom<NaiveDate> for Date {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(d: NaiveDate) -> DtcResult<Date> {
+        let month = u8::try_from(d.month())?;
+        let day = u8::try_from(d.day())?;
+        Date::new(d.year(), month, day)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Note: conversions from Postgres' `time` type [`pgrx::Time`] to [`chrono::NaiveTime`]
+/// incur a loss of precision as Postgres only exposes microseconds.
+impl TryFrom<Time> for NaiveTime {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(t: Time) -> DtcResult<NaiveTime> {
+        let (hour, minute, second, microseconds) = t.to_hms_micro();
+        let seconds_micro: u32 = Into::<u32>::into(second)
+            .checked_mul(1_000_000)
+            .ok_or(DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)?;
+        NaiveTime::from_hms_micro_opt(
+            hour.into(),
+            minute.into(),
+            second.into(),
+            // Since pgrx counts the fractional seconds (between 1_000_000 and 2_000_000),
+            // the microseconds value will be 1_000_000 * seconds + fractional.
+            //
+            // - at 12:01:01 => hour=12, minute=1, second=2, microseconds=2_000_000
+            // - at 12:01:59 => hour=12, minute=1, second=59, microseconds=59_000_000
+            // - at 12:01:59 => hour=12, minute=1, second=59, microseconds=59_000_000
+            //
+            // Since chrono *does* support leap seconds (representing them as 59 seconds & >1_000_000 microseconds)
+            // we can strip the microseconds in that case to zero and pretend they're not there,
+            // since Postgres does not support leap seconds
+            if second == 59 && microseconds > 1_000_000 { 0 } else { microseconds - seconds_micro },
+        )
+        .ok_or(DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)
+    }
+}
+
+impl TryFrom<NaiveTime> for Time {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(t: NaiveTime) -> DtcResult<Time> {
+        let hour = u8::try_from(t.hour())?;
+        let minute = u8::try_from(t.minute())?;
+        Time::new(hour, minute, convert_chrono_seconds_to_pgrx(t.second(), t.nanosecond())?)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Normally as seconds are represented by `f64` in pgrx, we must convert
+fn convert_chrono_seconds_to_pgrx(seconds: u32, nanos: u32) -> DtcResult<f64> {
+    let second_whole =
+        f64::try_from(seconds).map_err(|_| DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)?;
+    let second_nanos = f64::try_from(nanos).map_err(|_| DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)?;
+    Ok(second_whole + (second_nanos / 1_000_000_000.0))
+}
+
+/// Utility function for easy `f64` to `u32` conversion
+fn f64_to_u32(n: f64) -> DtcResult<u32> {
+    let truncated = n.trunc();
+    if truncated.is_nan()
+        || truncated.is_infinite()
+        || truncated < 0.0
+        || truncated > u32::MAX.into()
+    {
+        return Err(DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow);
+    }
+
+    Ok(truncated as u32)
+}
+
+/// Seconds are represented by `f64` in pgrx, with a maximum of microsecond precision
+fn convert_pgrx_seconds_to_chrono(orig: f64) -> DtcResult<(u32, u32, u32)> {
+    let seconds = f64_to_u32(orig)?;
+    let microseconds = f64_to_u32((orig * 1_000_000.0) % 1_000_000.0)?;
+    let nanoseconds = f64_to_u32((orig * 1_000_000_000.0) % 1_000_000_000.0)?;
+    Ok((seconds, microseconds, nanoseconds))
+}
+
+///////////////
+// Timestamp //
+///////////////
+
+/// Since [`pgrx::Timestamp`]s are tied to the Postgres instance's timezone,
+/// to figure out *which* timezone it's actually in, we convert to a [`pgrx::TimestampWithTimeZone`].
+///
+/// Once the offset is known, we can create and return a [`chrono::NaiveDateTime`]
+/// with the appropriate offset
+impl TryFrom<Timestamp> for NaiveDateTime {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(t: Timestamp) -> DtcResult<Self> {
+        let twtz: TimestampWithTimeZone = t.into();
+        let (seconds, _micros, _nanos) = convert_pgrx_seconds_to_chrono(twtz.second())?;
+        NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(twtz.year(), twtz.month().into(), twtz.day().into())
+            .ok_or(DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)?
+            .and_hms_opt(twtz.hour().into(), twtz.minute().into(), seconds)
+            .ok_or(DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)
+    }
+}
+
+impl TryFrom<NaiveDateTime> for Timestamp {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(ndt: NaiveDateTime) -> DtcResult<Self> {
+        let utc = ndt.and_utc();
+        let seconds = convert_chrono_seconds_to_pgrx(utc.second(), utc.nanosecond())?;
+        let twtz = TimestampWithTimeZone::with_timezone(
+            utc.year(),
+            utc.month().try_into()?,
+            utc.day().try_into()?,
+            utc.hour().try_into()?,
+            utc.minute().try_into()?,
+            seconds,
+            "utc",
+        )?;
+        Ok(twtz.to_utc())
+    }
+}
+
+///////////////////////////
+// TimestampWithTimeZone //
+///////////////////////////
+
+impl TryFrom<TimestampWithTimeZone> for DateTime<Utc> {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(twtz: TimestampWithTimeZone) -> DtcResult<Self> {
+        let twtz = twtz.to_utc();
+        let (seconds, _micros, _nanos) = convert_pgrx_seconds_to_chrono(twtz.second())?;
+        let datetime = NaiveDate::from_ymd_opt(twtz.year(), twtz.month().into(), twtz.day().into())
+            .ok_or(DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)?
+            .and_hms_opt(twtz.hour().into(), twtz.minute().into(), seconds)
+            .ok_or(DateTimeConversionError::FieldOverflow)?;
+        Ok(Self::from_naive_utc_and_offset(datetime, chrono::offset::Utc))
+    }
+}
+
+impl TryFrom<DateTime<Utc>> for TimestampWithTimeZone {
+    type Error = DateTimeConversionError;
+
+    fn try_from(ndt: DateTime<Utc>) -> DtcResult<Self> {
+        let seconds = convert_chrono_seconds_to_pgrx(ndt.second(), ndt.nanosecond())?;
+        Ok(Self::with_timezone(
+            ndt.year(),
+            ndt.month().try_into()?,
+            ndt.day().try_into()?,
+            ndt.hour().try_into()?,
+            ndt.minute().try_into()?,
+            seconds,
+            "utc",
+        )?)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs
index db83f9bbe8..598f0f9d64 100644
--- a/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs
+++ b/pgrx/src/datum/datetime_support/mod.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ use std::marker::PhantomData;
 mod ctor;
 mod ops;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "chrono")]
+mod chrono;
+
 pub use ctor::*;
 
 /// Tags to identify which "part" of a date or time-type value to extract or truncate to