diff --git a/r/R/dplyr-funcs-datetime.R b/r/R/dplyr-funcs-datetime.R
index 5a22c970965..2904abb30fe 100644
--- a/r/R/dplyr-funcs-datetime.R
+++ b/r/R/dplyr-funcs-datetime.R
@@ -168,3 +168,23 @@ register_bindings_datetime <- function() {
     build_expr("cast", x, options = list(to_type = date32()))
   })
 }
+
+binding_format_datetime <- function(x, format = "", tz = "", usetz = FALSE) {
+  if (usetz) {
+    format <- paste(format, "%Z")
+  }
+
+  if (call_binding("is.POSIXct", x)) {
+    # the casting part might not be required once
+    # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14442 is solved
+    # TODO revisit the steps below once the PR for that issue is merged
+    if (tz == "" && x$type()$timezone() != "") {
+      tz <- x$type()$timezone()
+    } else if (tz == "") {
+      tz <- Sys.timezone()
+    }
+    x <- build_expr("cast", x, options = cast_options(to_type = timestamp(x$type()$unit(), tz)))
+  }
+
+  build_expr("strftime", x, options = list(format = format, locale = Sys.getlocale("LC_TIME")))
+}
diff --git a/r/R/dplyr-funcs-type.R b/r/R/dplyr-funcs-type.R
index fa839269abe..52a8eeabaf3 100644
--- a/r/R/dplyr-funcs-type.R
+++ b/r/R/dplyr-funcs-type.R
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ register_bindings_type <- function() {
   register_bindings_type_cast()
   register_bindings_type_inspect()
   register_bindings_type_elementwise()
+  register_bindings_type_format()
 }
 
 register_bindings_type_cast <- function() {
@@ -292,3 +293,20 @@ register_bindings_type_elementwise <- function() {
     is_inf & !call_binding("is.na", is_inf)
   })
 }
+
+register_bindings_type_format <- function() {
+  register_binding("format", function(x, ...) {
+    # We use R's format if we get a single R object here since we don't (yet)
+    # support all of the possible options for casting to string
+    if (!inherits(x, "Expression")) {
+      return(format(x, ...))
+    }
+
+    if (inherits(x, "Expression") &&
+        x$type_id() %in% Type[c("TIMESTAMP", "DATE32", "DATE64")]) {
+      binding_format_datetime(x, ...)
+    } else {
+      build_expr("cast", x, options = cast_options(to_type = string()))
+    }
+  })
+}
diff --git a/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-funcs-type.R b/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-funcs-type.R
index 043a36a951a..5cbe77763af 100644
--- a/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-funcs-type.R
+++ b/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-funcs-type.R
@@ -843,3 +843,105 @@ test_that("as.Date() converts successfully from date, timestamp, integer, char a
     test_df
   )
 })
+
+test_that("format date/time", {
+  skip_on_os("windows") # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13168
+
+  times <- tibble(
+    datetime = c(lubridate::ymd_hms("2018-10-07 19:04:05", tz = "Pacific/Marquesas"), NA),
+    date = c(as.Date("2021-01-01"), NA)
+  )
+  formats <- "%a %A %w %d %b %B %m %y %Y %H %I %p %M %z %Z %j %U %W %x %X %% %G %V %u"
+  formats_date <- "%a %A %w %d %b %B %m %y %Y %H %I %p %M %j %U %W %x %X %% %G %V %u"
+
+  compare_dplyr_binding(
+    .input %>%
+      mutate(x = format(datetime, format = formats)) %>%
+      collect(),
+    times
+  )
+
+  compare_dplyr_binding(
+    .input %>%
+      mutate(x = format(date, format = formats_date)) %>%
+      collect(),
+    times
+  )
+
+  compare_dplyr_binding(
+    .input %>%
+      mutate(x = format(datetime, format = formats, tz = "Europe/Bucharest")) %>%
+      collect(),
+    times
+  )
+
+  compare_dplyr_binding(
+    .input %>%
+      mutate(x = format(datetime, format = formats, tz = "EST", usetz = TRUE)) %>%
+      collect(),
+    times
+  )
+
+  compare_dplyr_binding(
+    .input %>%
+      mutate(x = format(1),
+             y = format(13.7, nsmall = 3)) %>%
+      collect(),
+    times
+  )
+
+  compare_dplyr_binding(
+    .input %>%
+      mutate(start_date = format(as.POSIXct("2022-01-01 01:01:00"))) %>%
+      collect(),
+    times
+  )
+
+  withr::with_timezone(
+    "Pacific/Marquesas",
+    {
+      compare_dplyr_binding(
+        .input %>%
+          mutate(
+            x = format(datetime, format = formats, tz = "EST"),
+            x_date = format(date, format = formats_date, tz = "EST")
+          ) %>%
+          collect(),
+        times
+      )
+
+      compare_dplyr_binding(
+        .input %>%
+          mutate(
+            x = format(datetime, format = formats),
+            x_date = format(date, format = formats_date)
+          ) %>%
+          collect(),
+        times
+      )
+    }
+  )
+})
+
+test_that("format() for unsupported types returns the input as string", {
+  expect_equal(
+    example_data %>%
+      record_batch() %>%
+      mutate(x = format(int)) %>%
+      collect(),
+    example_data %>%
+      record_batch() %>%
+      mutate(x = as.character(int)) %>%
+      collect()
+  )
+  expect_equal(
+    example_data %>%
+      arrow_table() %>%
+      mutate(y = format(dbl)) %>%
+      collect(),
+    example_data %>%
+      arrow_table() %>%
+      mutate(y = as.character(dbl)) %>%
+      collect()
+  )
+})