diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index b0a2427732a6a..8eae98972de20 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 180
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        env_file: [actions-39.yaml, actions-310.yaml, actions-311.yaml]
+        env_file: [actions-39.yaml, actions-310.yaml, actions-311.yaml, actions-312.yaml]
         # Prevent the include jobs from overriding other jobs
         pattern: [""]
         include:
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ jobs:
             env_file: actions-311.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             pandas_copy_on_write: "1"
+          - name: "Copy-on-Write 3.12"
+            env_file: actions-312.yaml
+            pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
+            pandas_copy_on_write: "1"
           - name: "Pypy"
             env_file: actions-pypy-39.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
@@ -177,7 +181,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [macos-latest, windows-latest]
-        env_file: [actions-39.yaml, actions-310.yaml, actions-311.yaml]
+        env_file: [actions-39.yaml, actions-310.yaml, actions-311.yaml, actions-312.yaml]
       fail-fast: false
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     name: ${{ format('{0} {1}', matrix.os, matrix.env_file) }}
@@ -308,7 +312,7 @@ jobs:
     #    To freeze this file, uncomment out the ``if: false`` condition, and migrate the jobs
     #    to the corresponding posix/windows-macos/sdist etc. workflows.
     # Feel free to modify this comment as necessary.
-    #if: false # Uncomment this to freeze the workflow, comment it to unfreeze
+    if: false # Uncomment this to freeze the workflow, comment it to unfreeze
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash -eou pipefail {0}
@@ -339,7 +343,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python Dev Version
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: '3.12-dev'
+          python-version: '3.13-dev'
 
       - name: Build Environment
         run: |
diff --git a/ci/deps/actions-311.yaml b/ci/deps/actions-311.yaml
index a28bc6d0f5395..c67c4555bb263 100644
--- a/ci/deps/actions-311.yaml
+++ b/ci/deps/actions-311.yaml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ dependencies:
   - pyarrow>=7.0.0
   - pymysql>=1.0.2
   - pyreadstat>=1.1.5
-  # - pytables>=3.7.0, 3.8.0 is first version that supports 3.11
+  - pytables>=3.7.0
   - python-calamine>=0.1.6
   - pyxlsb>=1.0.9
   - s3fs>=2022.05.0
diff --git a/ci/deps/actions-312.yaml b/ci/deps/actions-312.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..130e8728f12a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/deps/actions-312.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+name: pandas-dev
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
+dependencies:
+  - python=3.12
+
+  # build dependencies
+  - versioneer[toml]
+  - cython>=0.29.33, <3.0.3
+  - meson[ninja]=1.2.1
+  - meson-python=0.13.1
+
+  # test dependencies
+  - pytest>=7.3.2
+  - pytest-cov
+  - pytest-xdist>=2.2.0
+  - pytest-asyncio>=0.17.0
+  - pytest-localserver>=0.7.1
+  - boto3
+
+  # required dependencies
+  - python-dateutil
+  - numpy
+  - pytz
+
+  # optional dependencies
+  - beautifulsoup4>=4.11.1
+  - blosc>=1.21.0
+  - bottleneck>=1.3.4
+  - fastparquet>=0.8.1
+  - fsspec>=2022.05.0
+  - html5lib>=1.1
+  - hypothesis>=6.46.1
+  # This depends on aiohttp which doesn't support Python 3.12
+  # - gcsfs>=2022.05.0
+  - jinja2>=3.1.2
+  - lxml>=4.8.0
+  # Need to unpin matplotlib from < 3.8 to get 3.12 support
+  #- matplotlib>=3.6.1, <3.8
+  # No numba Python 3.12 support yet
+  #- numba>=0.55.2
+  - numexpr>=2.8.0
+  - odfpy>=1.4.1
+  - qtpy>=2.2.0
+  - openpyxl>=3.0.10
+  # Disable pandas-gbq since it pins pyarrow and other deps
+  # to a version that doesn't support Python 3.12
+  #- pandas-gbq>=0.17.5
+  # No psycopg2 Python 3.12 support yet
+  #- psycopg2>=2.9.3
+  - pyarrow>=7.0.0
+  - pymysql>=1.0.2
+  - pyreadstat>=1.1.5
+  - pytables>=3.7.0
+  # No calamine Python 3.12 support yet
+  #- python-calamine>=0.1.6
+  - pyxlsb>=1.0.9
+  # This depends on aiohttp which doesn't support Python 3.12
+  #- s3fs>=2022.05.0
+  - scipy>=1.8.1
+  - sqlalchemy>=1.4.36
+  - tabulate>=0.8.10
+  - xarray>=2022.03.0
+  - xlrd>=2.0.1
+  - xlsxwriter>=3.0.3
+  - zstandard>=0.17.0
+
+  - pip:
+    - pyqt5>=5.15.6
+    - tzdata>=2022.1