diff --git a/base/path.jl b/base/path.jl
index 3b8124f34f174a..526a4bb2cd5e54 100644
--- a/base/path.jl
+++ b/base/path.jl
@@ -613,3 +613,53 @@ relpath(path::AbstractString, startpath::AbstractString) =
 for f in (:isdirpath, :splitdir, :splitdrive, :splitext, :normpath, :abspath)
     @eval $f(path::AbstractString) = $f(String(path))
 end
+
+"""
+    uripath(path::AbstractString)
+
+Encode `path` as a URI as per [RFC8089: The "file" URI
+Scheme](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8089), [RFC3986: Uniform Resource
+Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986), and
+the [Freedesktop File URI spec](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-uri-spec/).
+
+## Examples
+
+```julia-repl
+julia> uripath("/home/user/example file.jl") # On a unix machine
+"file://<hostname>/home/user/example%20file.jl"
+
+juila> uripath("C:\\Users\\user\\example file.jl") # On a windows machine
+"file:///C:/Users/user/example%20file.jl"
+```
+"""
+function uripath end
+
+@static if Sys.iswindows()
+    function uripath(path::String)
+        percent_escape(s) = # RFC3986 Section 2.1
+            '%' * join(map(b -> uppercase(string(b, base=16)), codeunits(s)), '%')
+        encode_uri_component(s) = # RFC3986 Section 2.3
+            replace(s, r"[^A-Za-z0-9\-_.~/]+" => percent_escape)
+        path = abspath(path)
+        if startswith(path, "\\\\") # UNC path, RFC8089 Appendix E.3
+            unixpath = join(eachsplit(path, path_separator_re, keepempty=false), '/')
+            string("file://", encode_uri_component(unixpath))
+        else
+            drive, localpath = splitdrive(path) # Assuming that non-UNC absolute paths on Windows always have a drive component
+            unixpath = join(eachsplit(localpath, path_separator_re, keepempty=false), '/')
+            encdrive = replace(encode_uri_component(drive), "%3A" => ':', "%7C" => '|') # RFC8089 Appendices D.2, E.2.1, and E.2.2
+            string("file:///", encdrive, '/', encode_uri_component(unixpath))
+        end
+    end
+else
+    function uripath(path::String)
+        percent_escape(s) = # RFC3986 Section 2.1
+            '%' * join(map(b -> uppercase(string(b, base=16)), codeunits(s)), '%')
+        encode_uri_component(s) = # RFC3986 Section 2.3
+            replace(s, r"[^A-Za-z0-9\-_.~/]+" => percent_escape)
+        localpath = join(eachsplit(abspath(path), path_separator_re, keepempty=false), '/')
+        string("file://", encode_uri_component(gethostname()), '/', encode_uri_component(localpath))
+    end
+end
+
+uripath(path::AbstractString) = uripath(String(path))
diff --git a/test/path.jl b/test/path.jl
index 2f4f2d0983a58e..405334e8398580 100644
--- a/test/path.jl
+++ b/test/path.jl
@@ -311,6 +311,19 @@
         test_relpath()
     end
 
+    @testset "uripath" begin
+        host = gethostname()
+        sysdrive, uridrive = if Sys.iswindows() "C:\\", "C:/" else "/", "" end
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath("$(sysdrive)some$(sep)file.txt") == "file://$host/$(uridrive)some/file.txt"
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath("$(sysdrive)another$(sep)$(sep)folder$(sep)file.md") == "file://$host/$(uridrive)another/folder/file.md"
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath("$(sysdrive)some file with ^odd% chars") == "file://$host/$(uridrive)some%20file%20with%20%5eodd%25%20chars"
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath("$(sysdrive)weird chars like @#&()[]{}") == "file://$host/$(uridrive)weird%20chars%20like%20%40%23%26%28%29%5b%5d%7b%7d"
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath("$sysdrive") == "file://$host/$uridrive"
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath(".") == Base.Filesystem.uripath(pwd())
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath("$(sysdrive)unicode$(sep)Δεδομένα") == "file://$host/$(uridrive)unicode/%ce%94%ce%b5%ce%b4%ce%bf%ce%bc%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%b1"
+        @test Base.Filesystem.uripath("$(sysdrive)unicode$(sep)🧮🐛🔨") == "file://$host/$(uridrive)unicode/%f0%9f%a7%ae%f0%9f%90%9b%f0%9f%94%a8"
+    end
+
     if Sys.iswindows()
         @testset "issue #23646" begin
             @test lowercase(relpath("E:\\a\\b", "C:\\c")) == "e:\\a\\b"