diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index 899b49cc4eff5..e0fa7f7421f13 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ defaults:
 
 jobs:
   ubuntu:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
     timeout-minutes: 90
     strategy:
       matrix:
+        platform: [ubuntu-22.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm]
         env_file: [actions-310.yaml, actions-311.yaml, actions-312.yaml]
         # Prevent the include jobs from overriding other jobs
         pattern: [""]
@@ -35,9 +36,11 @@ jobs:
             env_file: actions-311-downstream_compat.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             pytest_target: "pandas/tests/test_downstream.py"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Minimum Versions"
             env_file: actions-310-minimum_versions.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Locale: it_IT"
             env_file: actions-311.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
@@ -48,6 +51,7 @@ jobs:
             # Also install it_IT (its encoding is ISO8859-1) but do not activate it.
             # It will be temporarily activated during tests with locale.setlocale
             extra_loc: "it_IT"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Locale: zh_CN"
             env_file: actions-311.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
@@ -58,25 +62,31 @@ jobs:
             # Also install zh_CN (its encoding is gb2312) but do not activate it.
             # It will be temporarily activated during tests with locale.setlocale
             extra_loc: "zh_CN"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Future infer strings"
             env_file: actions-312.yaml
             pandas_future_infer_string: "1"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Future infer strings (without pyarrow)"
             env_file: actions-311.yaml
             pandas_future_infer_string: "1"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Pypy"
             env_file: actions-pypy-39.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             test_args: "--max-worker-restart 0"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Numpy Dev"
             env_file: actions-311-numpydev.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             test_args: "-W error::DeprecationWarning -W error::FutureWarning"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
           - name: "Pyarrow Nightly"
             env_file: actions-311-pyarrownightly.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
+            platform: ubuntu-22.04
       fail-fast: false
-    name: ${{ matrix.name || format('ubuntu-latest {0}', matrix.env_file) }}
+    name: ${{ matrix.name || format('ubuntu-latest {0}', matrix.env_file) }}-${{ matrix.platform }}
     env:
       PATTERN: ${{ matrix.pattern }}
       LANG: ${{ matrix.lang || 'C.UTF-8' }}
@@ -91,7 +101,7 @@ jobs:
       REMOVE_PYARROW: ${{ matrix.name == 'Future infer strings (without pyarrow)' && '1' || '0' }}
     concurrency:
       # https://github.community/t/concurrecy-not-work-for-push/183068/7
-      group: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.run_number || github.ref }}-${{ matrix.env_file }}-${{ matrix.pattern }}-${{ matrix.extra_apt || '' }}-${{ matrix.pandas_future_infer_string }}
+      group: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.run_number || github.ref }}-${{ matrix.env_file }}-${{ matrix.pattern }}-${{ matrix.extra_apt || '' }}-${{ matrix.pandas_future_infer_string }}-${{ matrix.platform }}
       cancel-in-progress: true
 
     services:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
index 3314e645509d1..a4c2a732f9fc8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ jobs:
         buildplat:
         - [ubuntu-22.04, manylinux_x86_64]
         - [ubuntu-22.04, musllinux_x86_64]
+        - [ubuntu-24.04-arm, manylinux_aarch64]
         - [macos-13, macosx_x86_64]
         # Note: M1 images on Github Actions start from macOS 14
         - [macos-14, macosx_arm64]