diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd.yml b/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
index fcec0ad..8bedf36 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
@@ -49,9 +49,16 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with: {python-version: "${{ matrix.python-version }}", cache: pip, cache-dependency-path: 'requirements/*.txt'}
     - name: install tests dependencies
-      run: pip install -r requirements/test.txt -r requirements/lint.txt -r requirements/tox.txt 
+      run: pip install -r requirements/test.txt -r requirements/lint.txt -r requirements/tox.txt
     - name: run lint
       run: tox --current-env -e lint
+    - name: run format
+      if: matrix.python-version == '3.13'
+      # requirements/format.txt is not installed in the `install tests
+      # dependencies` step since in older python versions there are conflicts.
+      run: |
+        pip install -r requirements/format.txt
+        tox --current-env -e check-format
     - name: run tests with coverage
       run: tox --current-env -e cov
 
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 6877cfd..c72bf4f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -340,8 +340,9 @@ Develop this package
     git clone https://github.com/kiorky/croniter.git
     cd croniter
     virtualenv --no-site-packages venv3
-    venv3/bin/pip install --upgrade -r requirements/test.txt -r requirements/lint.txt -r requirements/tox.txt
+    venv3/bin/pip install --upgrade -r requirements/test.txt -r requirements/lint.txt -r requirements/format.txt -r requirements/tox.txt
     venv3/bin/tox --current-env -e lint,test
+    venv3/bin/black src/
 
 
 Testing under py2
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4049fb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[tool.black]
+line-length = 119
+target-version = [
+  # XXX: This project does still support 2.6, but black does not have a 2.6
+  # target. There should be very few (if any) syntax differences between the
+  # two versions however.
+  'py27',
+  'py34',
+  'py35',
+  'py36',
+  'py37',
+  'py38',
+  'py39',
+  'py310',
+  # Because we're using an old version of black to support older python, there
+  # is no explicit python version target past 3.10
+]
diff --git a/requirements/format.txt b/requirements/format.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1612774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/format.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# We lock to the version just before black 22, as this is when python 2 support
+# is dropped.
+black==21.11b1
+
+# Lock to an older version of click to fix
+# https://github.com/psf/black/issues/2964. This was fixed in a newever version
+# of black that we cannot use.
+click==8.0.2
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index cb9fb2f..d3fd641 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements/lint.txt
 changedir = src
 commands = flake8 croniter/croniter.py
 
+[testenv:check-format]
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements/format.txt
+changedir = src
+commands = black --check .