diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/sdformat/13.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/sdformat/13.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..1aa932f3d53e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/sdformat/13.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+  callPackage,
+  gz-cmake_3,
+  gz-utils_2,
+  gz-math_7,
+}:
+
+(callPackage ./generic.nix {
+  gz-cmake = gz-cmake_3;
+  gz-utils = gz-utils_2;
+  gz-math = gz-math_7;
+})
+  {
+    version = "13.8.0";
+  }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/sdformat/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/sdformat/generic.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..88c17d74a252c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/sdformat/generic.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  cmake,
+  gz-cmake,
+  ruby,
+  gz-math,
+  gz-utils,
+  tinyxml-2,
+  tinyxml,
+  urdfdom,
+}:
+
+{
+  version,
+  hash ? lib.fakeHash,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "sdformat";
+  inherit version;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "gazebosim";
+    repo = "sdformat";
+    rev = "refs/tags/sdformat${lib.versions.major version}_${version}";
+    inherit hash;
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cmake
+    gz-cmake
+    ruby
+  ];
+  buildInputs = [
+    gz-math
+    gz-utils
+    urdfdom
+  ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    gz-math
+    (if lib.versionAtLeast version "10.0.0" then tinyxml-2 else tinyxml)
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://sdformat.org/";
+    description = "Simulation Description Format (SDF) parser and description files";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
+      pandapip1
+      lopsided98
+    ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index be2432db5ac777..0012dd9d206bbd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5287,6 +5287,8 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Security;
   };
 
+  sdformat_13 = callPackage ../development/libraries/sdformat/13.nix { };
+
   securefs = darwin.apple_sdk_11_0.callPackage ../tools/filesystems/securefs { };
 
   segger-jlink-headless = callPackage ../by-name/se/segger-jlink/package.nix { headless = true; };