diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix
index d90d4ff20416e..0e1db82e8af0f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/sip/4.x.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
-{ lib, fetchurl, buildPythonPackage, python, isPyPy, pythonAtLeast, sip-module ? "sip" }:
+{ lib, fetchurl, fetchpatch, buildPythonPackage, python, isPyPy, pythonAtLeast, sip-module ? "sip" }:
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = sip-module;
   version = "4.19.25";
   format = "other";
 
-  disabled = isPyPy || pythonAtLeast "3.11";
+  disabled = isPyPy;
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip/${version}/sip-${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "04a23cgsnx150xq86w1z44b6vr2zyazysy9mqax0fy346zlr77dk";
   };
 
+  patches = lib.optionals (pythonAtLeast "3.11") [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "sip-4-python3-11.patch";
+      url = "https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/python3-11.patch?h=sip4&id=67b5907227e68845cdfafcf050fedb89ed653585";
+      sha256 = "sha256-cmuz2y5+T8EM/h03G2oboSnnOwrUjVKt2TUQaC9YAdE=";
+    })
+  ];
+
   configurePhase = ''
     ${python.executable} ./configure.py \
       --sip-module ${sip-module} \