diff --git a/asv_bench/benchmarks/benchmarks.py b/asv_bench/benchmarks/benchmarks.py
index 5403c3bad48..8df8db3a68b 100644
--- a/asv_bench/benchmarks/benchmarks.py
+++ b/asv_bench/benchmarks/benchmarks.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 
 def execute(df):
     "Make sure the calculations are done."
-    return df.shape
+    return df.shape, df.dtypes
 
 
 class BaseTimeGroupBy:
@@ -487,3 +487,24 @@ def setup(self, shape, bins):
 
     def time_value_counts(self, shape, bins):
         execute(self.df.value_counts(bins=bins))
+
+
+class TimeAstype:
+    param_names = ["shape", "dtype", "astype_ncolumns"]
+    params = [
+        UNARY_OP_DATA_SIZE[ASV_DATASET_SIZE],
+        ["float64", "category"],
+        ["one", "all"],
+    ]
+
+    def setup(self, shape, dtype, astype_ncolumns):
+        self.df = generate_dataframe(ASV_USE_IMPL, "int", *shape, RAND_LOW, RAND_HIGH)
+        if astype_ncolumns == "all":
+            self.astype_arg = dtype
+        elif astype_ncolumns == "one":
+            self.astype_arg = {"col1": dtype}
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("astype_ncolumns: {astype_ncolumns} isn't supported")
+
+    def time_astype(self, shape, dtype, astype_ncolumns):
+        execute(self.df.astype(self.astype_arg))