diff --git a/airflow/providers/postgres/hooks/postgres.py b/airflow/providers/postgres/hooks/postgres.py
index 93688d74cd67c..22bd76babb3fd 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/postgres/hooks/postgres.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/postgres/hooks/postgres.py
@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ def copy_expert(self, sql: str, filename: str) -> None:
                     file.truncate(file.tell())
                     conn.commit()
 
+    def get_uri(self) -> str:
+        conn = self.get_connection(getattr(self, self.conn_name_attr))
+        uri = super().get_uri()
+        if conn.extra_dejson.get('client_encoding', False):
+            charset = conn.extra_dejson["client_encoding"]
+            return f"{uri}?client_encoding={charset}"
+        return uri
+
     def bulk_load(self, table: str, tmp_file: str) -> None:
         """Loads a tab-delimited file into a database table"""
         self.copy_expert(f"COPY {table} FROM STDIN", tmp_file)
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-postgres/connections/postgres.rst b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-postgres/connections/postgres.rst
index 11e469d8a4cbc..f777c851dd716 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-postgres/connections/postgres.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-postgres/connections/postgres.rst
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ Extra (optional)
       configuration parameter.
     * ``keepalives_idle`` - Controls the number of seconds of inactivity after which TCP
       should send a keepalive message to the server.
+    * ``client_encoding``: specifies client encoding(character set) of the client connection.
+      Refer to `Postgres supported character sets <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/multibyte.html>`_
 
     More details on all Postgres parameters supported can be found in
     `Postgres documentation <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING>`_.
diff --git a/tests/providers/postgres/hooks/test_postgres.py b/tests/providers/postgres/hooks/test_postgres.py
index c22a7223cefe1..56f8288518828 100644
--- a/tests/providers/postgres/hooks/test_postgres.py
+++ b/tests/providers/postgres/hooks/test_postgres.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 #
-
+import json
 import unittest
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from unittest import mock
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ def test_get_conn(self, mock_connect):
             user='login', password='password', host='host', dbname='schema', port=None
         )
 
+    @mock.patch('airflow.providers.postgres.hooks.postgres.psycopg2.connect')
+    def test_get_uri(self, mock_connect):
+        self.connection.extra = json.dumps({'client_encoding': 'utf-8'})
+        self.connection.conn_type = 'postgres'
+        self.db_hook.get_conn()
+        assert mock_connect.call_count == 1
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.db_hook.get_uri(), "postgres://login:password@host/schema?client_encoding=utf-8"
+        )
+
     @mock.patch('airflow.providers.postgres.hooks.postgres.psycopg2.connect')
     def test_get_conn_cursor(self, mock_connect):
         self.connection.extra = '{"cursor": "dictcursor"}'