diff --git a/mypyc/doc/str_operations.rst b/mypyc/doc/str_operations.rst
index 64ebbdcfa0bb..c36574ed7864 100644
--- a/mypyc/doc/str_operations.rst
+++ b/mypyc/doc/str_operations.rst
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ Methods
 * ``s1.find(s2: str)``
 * ``s1.find(s2: str, start: int)``
 * ``s1.find(s2: str, start: int, end: int)``
-* ``s.isspace()``
 * ``s.isalnum()``
+* ``s.isdigit()``
+* ``s.isspace()``
 * ``s.join(x: Iterable)``
 * ``s.lstrip()``
 * ``s.lstrip(chars: str)``
diff --git a/mypyc/lib-rt/CPy.h b/mypyc/lib-rt/CPy.h
index ee5f5932f849..6e4f9a729ab1 100644
--- a/mypyc/lib-rt/CPy.h
+++ b/mypyc/lib-rt/CPy.h
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ CPyTagged CPyStr_Ord(PyObject *obj);
 PyObject *CPyStr_Multiply(PyObject *str, CPyTagged count);
 bool CPyStr_IsSpace(PyObject *str);
 bool CPyStr_IsAlnum(PyObject *str);
+bool CPyStr_IsDigit(PyObject *str);
 
 // Bytes operations
 
diff --git a/mypyc/lib-rt/str_ops.c b/mypyc/lib-rt/str_ops.c
index 6530472e42e4..fba0bb39395c 100644
--- a/mypyc/lib-rt/str_ops.c
+++ b/mypyc/lib-rt/str_ops.c
@@ -677,3 +677,40 @@ bool CPyStr_IsAlnum(PyObject *str) {
     }
     return true;
 }
+
+bool CPyStr_IsDigit(PyObject *str) {
+    Py_ssize_t len = PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(str);
+    if (len == 0) return false;
+
+#define CHECK_ISDIGIT(TYPE, DATA, CHECK)              \
+    {                                                 \
+        const TYPE *data = (const TYPE *)(DATA);      \
+        for (Py_ssize_t i = 0; i < len; i++) {        \
+            if (!CHECK(data[i]))                      \
+                return false;                         \
+        }                                             \
+    }
+
+    // ASCII fast path
+    if (PyUnicode_IS_ASCII(str)) {
+        CHECK_ISDIGIT(Py_UCS1, PyUnicode_1BYTE_DATA(str), Py_ISDIGIT);
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    switch (PyUnicode_KIND(str)) {
+    case PyUnicode_1BYTE_KIND:
+        CHECK_ISDIGIT(Py_UCS1, PyUnicode_1BYTE_DATA(str), Py_UNICODE_ISDIGIT);
+        break;
+    case PyUnicode_2BYTE_KIND:
+        CHECK_ISDIGIT(Py_UCS2, PyUnicode_2BYTE_DATA(str), Py_UNICODE_ISDIGIT);
+        break;
+    case PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND:
+        CHECK_ISDIGIT(Py_UCS4, PyUnicode_4BYTE_DATA(str), Py_UNICODE_ISDIGIT);
+        break;
+    default:
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
+    }
+    return true;
+
+#undef CHECK_ISDIGIT
+}
diff --git a/mypyc/primitives/str_ops.py b/mypyc/primitives/str_ops.py
index 86559f162f90..374654b32df2 100644
--- a/mypyc/primitives/str_ops.py
+++ b/mypyc/primitives/str_ops.py
@@ -413,6 +413,14 @@
     error_kind=ERR_NEVER,
 )
 
+method_op(
+    name="isdigit",
+    arg_types=[str_rprimitive],
+    return_type=bool_rprimitive,
+    c_function_name="CPyStr_IsDigit",
+    error_kind=ERR_NEVER,
+)
+
 
 # obj.decode()
 method_op(
diff --git a/mypyc/test-data/fixtures/ir.py b/mypyc/test-data/fixtures/ir.py
index 633a3fdc32e3..f2d4e77addec 100644
--- a/mypyc/test-data/fixtures/ir.py
+++ b/mypyc/test-data/fixtures/ir.py
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ def islower(self) -> bool: ...
     def count(self, substr: str, start: Optional[int] = None, end: Optional[int] = None) -> int: pass
     def isspace(self) -> bool: ...
     def isalnum(self) -> bool: ...
+    def isdigit(self) -> bool: ...
 
 class float:
     def __init__(self, x: object) -> None: pass
diff --git a/mypyc/test-data/irbuild-str.test b/mypyc/test-data/irbuild-str.test
index ce2fbab6fad5..4245279937c4 100644
--- a/mypyc/test-data/irbuild-str.test
+++ b/mypyc/test-data/irbuild-str.test
@@ -994,3 +994,14 @@ def is_alnum(x):
 L0:
     r0 = CPyStr_IsAlnum(x)
     return r0
+
+[case testStrIsDigit]
+def is_digit(x: str) -> bool:
+    return x.isdigit()
+[out]
+def is_digit(x):
+    x :: str
+    r0 :: bool
+L0:
+    r0 = CPyStr_IsDigit(x)
+    return r0
diff --git a/mypyc/test-data/run-strings.test b/mypyc/test-data/run-strings.test
index 1f9651e13c69..df6d7363a5b1 100644
--- a/mypyc/test-data/run-strings.test
+++ b/mypyc/test-data/run-strings.test
@@ -1299,3 +1299,37 @@ def test_isalnum_unicode() -> None:
     # Unicode letter/digit mixed with punctuation — not alnum
     assert not "\u00E9!".isalnum()
     assert not "\u4E2D\u2000".isalnum()     # CJK + whitespace
+
+[case testIsDigit]
+from typing import Any
+
+def test_isdigit() -> None:
+    for i in range(0x110000):
+        c = chr(i)
+        a: Any = c
+        assert c.isdigit() == a.isdigit()
+
+def test_isdigit_strings() -> None:
+    # ASCII digits
+    assert "0123456789".isdigit()
+    assert not "".isdigit()
+    assert not " ".isdigit()
+    assert not "a".isdigit()
+    assert not "abc".isdigit()
+    assert not "!@#".isdigit()
+
+    # Mixed ASCII
+    assert not "123abc".isdigit()
+    assert not "abc123".isdigit()
+    assert not "12 34".isdigit()
+    assert not "123!".isdigit()
+
+    # Unicode digits
+    assert "\u0660\u0661\u0662".isdigit()
+    assert "\u00b2\u00b3".isdigit()
+    assert "123\U0001d7ce\U0001d7cf\U0001d7d0".isdigit()
+
+    # Mixed digits and Unicode non-digits
+    assert not "\u00e9\u00e8".isdigit()
+    assert not "123\u00e9".isdigit()
+    assert not "\U0001d7ce!".isdigit()