diff --git a/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/ExampleSimple.jsx b/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/ExampleSimple.jsx
index 27bf7e9bda09fd..11750e34b036cb 100644
--- a/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/ExampleSimple.jsx
+++ b/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/ExampleSimple.jsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const DatePickerExampleSimple = () => (
   <div>
     <DatePicker hintText="Portrait Dialog" />
     <DatePicker hintText="Landscape Dialog" mode="landscape" />
+    <DatePicker hintText="Dialog Disabled" disabled={true} />
   </div>
 );
 
diff --git a/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/Page.jsx b/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/Page.jsx
index c6facbbf2fdd25..52dd9cc8a60ff2 100644
--- a/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/Page.jsx
+++ b/docs/src/app/components/pages/components/DatePicker/Page.jsx
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ import datePickerExampleInternationalCode from '!raw!./ExampleInternational';
 import datePickerReadmeText from './README';
 
 const descriptions = {
-  simple: 'The Date Picker defaults to a portrait dialog. The `mode` property can be set to `landscape`.',
+  simple: 'The Date Picker defaults to a portrait dialog. The `mode` property can be set to `landscape`. You can ' +
+  'also disable the Dialog passing `true` to the `disabled` property.',
   inline: 'Inline Date Pickers are displayed below the input, rather than as a modal dialog. ',
   ranged: 'This example allows you to set a date range, and to toggle `autoOk`, and `disableYearSelection`.',
   controlled: '`DatePicker` can be implemented as a controlled input, where `value` is handled by state in the ' +
diff --git a/src/date-picker/date-picker.jsx b/src/date-picker/date-picker.jsx
index 46562797562142..fd87a820d71af5 100644
--- a/src/date-picker/date-picker.jsx
+++ b/src/date-picker/date-picker.jsx
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ const DatePicker = React.createClass({
      */
     disableYearSelection: React.PropTypes.bool,
 
+    /**
+     * Disables the DatePicker.
+     */
+    disabled: React.PropTypes.bool,
+
     /**
      * Used to change the first day of week. It drastically varies from
      * Saturday to Monday (could even be Friday) between different locales.
@@ -165,6 +170,7 @@ const DatePicker = React.createClass({
       disableYearSelection: false,
       style: {},
       firstDayOfWeek: 0,
+      disabled: false,
     };
   },
 
@@ -248,9 +254,10 @@ const DatePicker = React.createClass({
   _handleInputTouchTap: function _handleInputTouchTap(event) {
     if (this.props.onTouchTap) this.props.onTouchTap(event);
 
-    setTimeout(() => {
-      this.openDialog();
-    }, 0);
+    if (!this.props.disabled)
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        this.openDialog();
+      }, 0);
   },
 
   _handleWindowKeyUp() {