diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/CHANGELOG.md b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/CHANGELOG.md
index 2248ea35c8..439b65b17c 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Released 2020-10-13
 
 - Changed span name extraction from request to comply semantic convention ([#992](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/992)) 
 - Added support for `OTEL_PYTHON_DJANGO_TRACED_REQUEST_ATTRS` ([#1154](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/1154))
+- Added capture of http.route ([#1226](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/1226))
 
 ## Version 0.13b0
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/django/middleware.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/django/middleware.py
index 11991413eb..e3cb78dbd8 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/django/middleware.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/django/middleware.py
@@ -125,6 +125,26 @@ def process_request(self, request):
         request.META[self._environ_span_key] = span
         request.META[self._environ_token] = token
 
+    # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+    def process_view(self, request, view_func, *args, **kwargs):
+        # Process view is executed before the view function, here we get the
+        # route template from request.resolver_match.  It is not set yet in process_request
+        if self._excluded_urls.url_disabled(request.build_absolute_uri("?")):
+            return
+
+        if (
+            self._environ_activation_key in request.META.keys()
+            and self._environ_span_key in request.META.keys()
+        ):
+            span = request.META[self._environ_span_key]
+
+            if span.is_recording():
+                match = getattr(request, "resolver_match")
+                if match:
+                    route = getattr(match, "route")
+                    if route:
+                        span.set_attribute("http.route", route)
+
     def process_exception(self, request, exception):
         # Django can call this method and process_response later. In order
         # to avoid __exit__ and detach from being called twice then, the
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/test_middleware.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/test_middleware.py
index 4db6c485de..6e3196e3ef 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/test_middleware.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/test_middleware.py
@@ -36,12 +36,14 @@
     excluded_noarg2,
     route_span_name,
     traced,
+    traced_template,
 )
 
 DJANGO_2_2 = VERSION >= (2, 2)
 
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r"^traced/", traced),
+    url(r"^route/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/template/$", traced_template),
     url(r"^error/", error),
     url(r"^excluded_arg/", excluded),
     url(r"^excluded_noarg/", excluded_noarg),
@@ -68,6 +70,35 @@ def tearDown(self):
         teardown_test_environment()
         _django_instrumentor.uninstrument()
 
+    def test_templated_route_get(self):
+        Client().get("/route/2020/template/")
+
+        spans = self.memory_exporter.get_finished_spans()
+        self.assertEqual(len(spans), 1)
+
+        span = spans[0]
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            span.name,
+            "^route/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/template/$"
+            if DJANGO_2_2
+            else "tests.views.traced",
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(span.kind, SpanKind.SERVER)
+        self.assertEqual(span.status.canonical_code, StatusCanonicalCode.OK)
+        self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.method"], "GET")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            span.attributes["http.url"],
+            "http://testserver/route/2020/template/",
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            span.attributes["http.route"],
+            "^route/(?P<year>[0-9]{4})/template/$",
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.scheme"], "http")
+        self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.status_code"], 200)
+        self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.status_text"], "OK")
+
     def test_traced_get(self):
         Client().get("/traced/")
 
@@ -85,6 +116,7 @@ def test_traced_get(self):
         self.assertEqual(
             span.attributes["http.url"], "http://testserver/traced/"
         )
+        self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.route"], "^traced/")
         self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.scheme"], "http")
         self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.status_code"], 200)
         self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.status_text"], "OK")
@@ -121,6 +153,7 @@ def test_traced_post(self):
         self.assertEqual(
             span.attributes["http.url"], "http://testserver/traced/"
         )
+        self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.route"], "^traced/")
         self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.scheme"], "http")
         self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.status_code"], 200)
         self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.status_text"], "OK")
@@ -145,6 +178,7 @@ def test_error(self):
         self.assertEqual(
             span.attributes["http.url"], "http://testserver/error/"
         )
+        self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.route"], "^error/")
         self.assertEqual(span.attributes["http.scheme"], "http")
 
     @patch(
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/views.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/views.py
index e286841011..872222a842 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/views.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-django/tests/views.py
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ def traced(request):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
     return HttpResponse()
 
 
+def traced_template(request, year):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+    return HttpResponse()
+
+
 def error(request):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
     raise ValueError("error")