diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix
index d82adaeea28..a02e7ee4c5f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, fetchPypi, python, buildPythonPackage, gfortran, pytest, blas, writeTextFile }:
+{ lib, fetchPypi, python, buildPythonPackage, gfortran, pytest, blas, writeTextFile, isPyPy }:
 
 let
   blasImplementation = lib.nameFromURL blas.name "-";
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ in buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = !isPyPy; # numpy 1.16+ hits a bug in pypy's ctypes, using either numpy or pypy HEAD fixes this (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/13807)
+
   checkPhase = ''
     runHook preCheck
     pushd dist