diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index e16e0e9fd7b..912add23e0a 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -234,6 +234,21 @@ jobs:
       - test_optional:
           py: "39_pandas_2"
 
+  # No numpy
+  python_312_no_numpy:
+    docker:
+      - image: cimg/python:3.12-browsers
+    steps:
+      - run:
+          name: Check that numpy is not installed
+          command: |
+            if pip list | grep numpy > /dev/null 2>&1
+            then exit 1
+            else exit 0
+            fi
+      - test_optional:
+          py: "312_no_numpy"
+
   # Orca
   python_38_orca:
     docker:
@@ -598,5 +613,6 @@ workflows:
       - python_39_pandas_2_optional
       - python_38_orca
       - python_39_percy
+      - python_312_no_numpy
       - build-doc
 
diff --git a/packages/python/plotly/test_requirements/requirements_312_no_numpy_optional.txt b/packages/python/plotly/test_requirements/requirements_312_no_numpy_optional.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dbf02f2bea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/plotly/test_requirements/requirements_312_no_numpy_optional.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+requests==2.31.0
+tenacity==8.2.3
+pandas
+xarray==2023.12.0
+statsmodels
+Pillow==10.2.0
+pytest==7.4.4
+pytz==2023.3.post1
+ipython[all]==7.22.0
+ipywidgets<8
+ipykernel==5.5.3
+jupyter==1.0.0
+scipy==1.11.4
+Shapely==2.0.2
+geopandas==0.14.2
+pyshp==2.3.1
+matplotlib==3.8.2
+scikit-image==0.22.0
+psutil==5.9.7
+kaleido
+orjson==3.9.10
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