diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4c7b0f5ef..5db50f8f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ shares the same argument scope as `eval` rather than being executed in a new sco
 - The `path_helper` on macOS now only runs in login shells, matching the bash implementation.
 - The `forward-bigword` binding now interacts correctly with autosuggestions (#5336)
 - Fish now tries to guess if the system supports Unicode 9 (and displays emoji as wide), hopefully making setting $fish_emoji_width superfluous in most cases (#5722).
+- The locale is now reloaded when the `LOCPATH` variable is changed (#5815).
 - Lots of improvements to completions.
 - Added completions for
   - `cf`
diff --git a/src/env_dispatch.cpp b/src/env_dispatch.cpp
index ff0e6ff93..bc1bd4576 100644
--- a/src/env_dispatch.cpp
+++ b/src/env_dispatch.cpp
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static const wcstring_list_t locale_variables({L"LANG", L"LANGUAGE", L"LC_ALL",
                                                L"LC_COLLATE", L"LC_CTYPE", L"LC_IDENTIFICATION",
                                                L"LC_MEASUREMENT", L"LC_MESSAGES", L"LC_MONETARY",
                                                L"LC_NAME", L"LC_NUMERIC", L"LC_PAPER",
-                                               L"LC_TELEPHONE", L"LC_TIME"});
+                                               L"LC_TELEPHONE", L"LC_TIME", L"LOCPATH"});
 
 /// List of all curses environment variable names that might trigger (re)initializing the curses
 /// subsystem.