diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 8e53ca60..48174aef 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ include Changelog.rst
 include CONTRIBUTING.md
 include LICENSE
 include MANIFEST.in
-include README.rst
+include README.md
 include setup.py
 recursive-include elasticsearch* py.typed *.pyi
 recursive-include docs/sphinx *
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.md
similarity index 100%
rename from README.rst
rename to README.md
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3107dce4..f67f587f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ with open(join(base_dir, package_name, "_version.py")) as f:
         r"__versionstr__\s+=\s+[\"\']([^\"\']+)[\"\']", f.read()
     ).group(1)
 
-with open(join(base_dir, "README.rst")) as f:
+with open(join(base_dir, "README.md")) as f:
     long_description = f.read().strip()
 
 packages = [