diff --git a/airflow/serialization/serializers/timezone.py b/airflow/serialization/serializers/timezone.py
index b55b51610b41b..5d3b940cd78f4 100644
--- a/airflow/serialization/serializers/timezone.py
+++ b/airflow/serialization/serializers/timezone.py
@@ -17,17 +17,22 @@
 # under the License.
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+import datetime
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, cast
 
 from airflow.utils.module_loading import qualname
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from pendulum.tz.timezone import Timezone
-
     from airflow.serialization.serde import U
 
 
-serializers = ["pendulum.tz.timezone.FixedTimezone", "pendulum.tz.timezone.Timezone"]
+serializers = [
+    "pendulum.tz.timezone.FixedTimezone",
+    "pendulum.tz.timezone.Timezone",
+    "zoneinfo.ZoneInfo",
+    "backports.zoneinfo.ZoneInfo",
+]
+
 deserializers = serializers
 
 __version__ = 1
@@ -43,21 +48,26 @@ def serialize(o: object) -> tuple[U, str, int, bool]:
     0 without the special case), but passing 0 into ``pendulum.timezone`` does
     not give us UTC (but ``+00:00``).
     """
-    from pendulum.tz.timezone import FixedTimezone, Timezone
+    from pendulum.tz.timezone import FixedTimezone
 
     name = qualname(o)
+
     if isinstance(o, FixedTimezone):
         if o.offset == 0:
             return "UTC", name, __version__, True
         return o.offset, name, __version__, True
 
-    if isinstance(o, Timezone):
-        return o.name, name, __version__, True
+    tz_name = _get_tzinfo_name(cast(datetime.tzinfo, o))
+    if tz_name is not None:
+        return tz_name, name, __version__, True
+
+    if cast(datetime.tzinfo, o).utcoffset(None) == datetime.timedelta(0):
+        return "UTC", qualname(FixedTimezone), __version__, True
 
     return "", "", 0, False
 
 
-def deserialize(classname: str, version: int, data: object) -> Timezone:
+def deserialize(classname: str, version: int, data: object) -> Any:
     from pendulum.tz import fixed_timezone, timezone
 
     if not isinstance(data, (str, int)):
@@ -69,4 +79,36 @@ def deserialize(classname: str, version: int, data: object) -> Timezone:
     if isinstance(data, int):
         return fixed_timezone(data)
 
+    if classname == "zoneinfo.ZoneInfo":
+        from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
+
+        return ZoneInfo(data)
+
+    if classname == "backports.zoneinfo.ZoneInfo":
+        # python version might have been upgraded, so we need to check
+        try:
+            from backports.zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
+        except ImportError:
+            from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
+
+        return ZoneInfo(data)
+
     return timezone(data)
+
+
+# ported from pendulum.tz.timezone._get_tzinfo_name
+def _get_tzinfo_name(tzinfo: datetime.tzinfo | None) -> str | None:
+    if tzinfo is None:
+        return None
+
+    if hasattr(tzinfo, "key"):
+        # zoneinfo timezone
+        return tzinfo.key
+    elif hasattr(tzinfo, "name"):
+        # Pendulum timezone
+        return tzinfo.name
+    elif hasattr(tzinfo, "zone"):
+        # pytz timezone
+        return tzinfo.zone  # type: ignore[no-any-return]
+
+    return None
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d5b8c333d0c93..c69fffc7ae89f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ def write_version(filename: str = str(AIRFLOW_SOURCES_ROOT / "airflow" / "git_ve
 
 _devel_only_tests = [
     "aioresponses",
+    "backports.zoneinfo>=0.2.1;python_version<'3.9'",
     "beautifulsoup4>=4.7.1",
     "coverage>=7.2",
     "pytest",
diff --git a/tests/serialization/serializers/test_serializers.py b/tests/serialization/serializers/test_serializers.py
index 26e4ecea0eac1..2c9c94e5c81cb 100644
--- a/tests/serialization/serializers/test_serializers.py
+++ b/tests/serialization/serializers/test_serializers.py
@@ -22,11 +22,18 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pendulum.tz
 import pytest
+from dateutil.tz import tzutc
 from pendulum import DateTime
 
+from airflow import PY39
 from airflow.models.param import Param, ParamsDict
 from airflow.serialization.serde import DATA, deserialize, serialize
 
+if PY39:
+    from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
+else:
+    from backports.zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
+
 
 class TestSerializers:
     def test_datetime(self):
@@ -62,8 +69,17 @@ def test_datetime(self):
         d = deserialize(s)
         assert i.timestamp() == d.timestamp()
 
-    def test_deserialize_datetime_v1(self):
+        i = DateTime(2022, 7, 10, tzinfo=tzutc())
+        s = serialize(i)
+        d = deserialize(s)
+        assert i.timestamp() == d.timestamp()
 
+        i = DateTime(2022, 7, 10, tzinfo=ZoneInfo("Europe/Paris"))
+        s = serialize(i)
+        d = deserialize(s)
+        assert i.timestamp() == d.timestamp()
+
+    def test_deserialize_datetime_v1(self):
         s = {
             "__classname__": "pendulum.datetime.DateTime",
             "__version__": 1,