diff --git a/news/5908.feature b/news/5908.feature
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4e63748593f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/5908.feature
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Log the final filename and SHA256 of a ``.whl`` file when done building a
+wheel.
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/wheel.py b/src/pip/_internal/wheel.py
index 1bdbe93ab7e..6e4a3ee6f5b 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/wheel.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/wheel.py
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ def normpath(src, p):
     return os.path.relpath(src, p).replace(os.path.sep, '/')
 
 
-def rehash(path, blocksize=1 << 20):
-    # type: (str, int) -> Tuple[str, str]
+def hash_file(path, blocksize=1 << 20):
+    # type: (str, int) -> Tuple[Any, int]
     """Return (hash, length) for path using hashlib.sha256()"""
     h = hashlib.sha256()
     length = 0
@@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ def rehash(path, blocksize=1 << 20):
         for block in read_chunks(f, size=blocksize):
             length += len(block)
             h.update(block)
+    return (h, length)  # type: ignore
+
+
+def rehash(path, blocksize=1 << 20):
+    # type: (str, int) -> Tuple[str, str]
+    """Return (encoded_digest, length) for path using hashlib.sha256()"""
+    h, length = hash_file(path, blocksize)
     digest = 'sha256=' + urlsafe_b64encode(
         h.digest()
     ).decode('latin1').rstrip('=')
@@ -885,7 +892,12 @@ def _build_one_inside_env(self, req, output_dir, python_tag=None):
                 wheel_name = os.path.basename(wheel_path)
                 dest_path = os.path.join(output_dir, wheel_name)
                 try:
+                    wheel_hash, length = hash_file(wheel_path)
                     shutil.move(wheel_path, dest_path)
+                    logger.info('Created wheel for %s: '
+                                'filename=%s size=%d sha256=%s',
+                                req.name, wheel_name, length,
+                                wheel_hash.hexdigest())
                     logger.info('Stored in directory: %s', output_dir)
                     return dest_path
                 except Exception:
diff --git a/tests/functional/test_wheel.py b/tests/functional/test_wheel.py
index f67720f165a..ee0b19e47a4 100644
--- a/tests/functional/test_wheel.py
+++ b/tests/functional/test_wheel.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """'pip wheel' tests"""
 import os
+import re
 from os.path import exists
 
 import pytest
@@ -48,6 +49,12 @@ def test_pip_wheel_success(script, data):
     )
     wheel_file_name = 'simple-3.0-py%s-none-any.whl' % pyversion[0]
     wheel_file_path = script.scratch / wheel_file_name
+    assert re.search(
+        r"Created wheel for simple: "
+        r"filename=%s size=\d+ sha256=[A-Fa-f0-9]{64}"
+        % re.escape(wheel_file_name), result.stdout)
+    assert re.search(
+        r"^\s+Stored in directory: ", result.stdout, re.M)
     assert wheel_file_path in result.files_created, result.stdout
     assert "Successfully built simple" in result.stdout, result.stdout
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_wheel.py b/tests/unit/test_wheel.py
index 19a3259ede4..74ecc4f607d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_wheel.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_wheel.py
@@ -763,3 +763,29 @@ def test_missing_PATH_env_treated_as_empty_PATH_env(self):
             retval_empty = wheel.message_about_scripts_not_on_PATH(scripts)
 
         assert retval_missing == retval_empty
+
+
+class TestWheelHashCalculators(object):
+
+    def prep(self, tmpdir):
+        self.test_file = tmpdir.join("hash.file")
+        # Want this big enough to trigger the internal read loops.
+        self.test_file_len = 2 * 1024 * 1024
+        with open(str(self.test_file), "w") as fp:
+            fp.truncate(self.test_file_len)
+        self.test_file_hash = \
+            '5647f05ec18958947d32874eeb788fa396a05d0bab7c1b71f112ceb7e9b31eee'
+        self.test_file_hash_encoded = \
+            'sha256=VkfwXsGJWJR9ModO63iPo5agXQurfBtx8RLOt-mzHu4'
+
+    def test_hash_file(self, tmpdir):
+        self.prep(tmpdir)
+        h, length = wheel.hash_file(self.test_file)
+        assert length == self.test_file_len
+        assert h.hexdigest() == self.test_file_hash
+
+    def test_rehash(self, tmpdir):
+        self.prep(tmpdir)
+        h, length = wheel.rehash(self.test_file)
+        assert length == str(self.test_file_len)
+        assert h == self.test_file_hash_encoded