diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6ad2e0d0..985ec8c5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ to maintain.
   * [`toHaveAttribute`](#tohaveattribute)
   * [`toHaveClass`](#tohaveclass)
   * [`toHaveStyle`](#tohavestyle)
+  * [`toBeVisible`](#tobevisible)
 * [Inspiration](#inspiration)
 * [Other Solutions](#other-solutions)
 * [Guiding Principles](#guiding-principles)
@@ -194,6 +195,35 @@ This also works with rules that are applied to the element via a class name for
 which some rules are defined in a stylesheet currently active in the document.
 The usual rules of css precedence apply.
 
+### `toBeVisible`
+
+This allows you to check if an element is currently visible to the user.
+
+An element is visible if **all** the following conditions are met:
+
+* it does not have its css property `display` set to `none`
+* it does not have its css property `visibility` set to either `hidden` or
+  `collapse`
+* it does not have its css property `opacity` set to `0`
+* its parent element is also visible (and so on up to the top of the DOM tree)
+
+```javascript
+// add the custom expect matchers once
+import 'jest-dom/extend-expect'
+
+// ...
+// <header>
+//   <h1 style="display: none">Page title</h1>
+// </header>
+// <section>
+//   <p style="visibility: hidden">Hello <strong>World</strong></h1>
+// </section>
+expect(container.querySelector('header')).toBeVisible()
+expect(container.querySelector('h1')).not.toBeVisible()
+expect(container.querySelector('strong')).not.toBeVisible()
+// ...
+```
+
 ## Inspiration
 
 This whole library was extracted out of Kent C. Dodds' [dom-testing-library][],
diff --git a/src/__tests__/index.js b/src/__tests__/index.js
index 3b330653..dc3e42ce 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/index.js
+++ b/src/__tests__/index.js
@@ -167,3 +167,35 @@ test('.toHaveStyle', () => {
   document.body.removeChild(style)
   document.body.removeChild(container)
 })
+
+test('.toBeVisible', () => {
+  const {container} = render(`
+    <div>
+      <header>
+        <h1 style="display: none">Main title</h1>
+        <h2 style="visibility: hidden">Secondary title</h2>
+        <h3 style="visibility: collapse">Secondary title</h3>
+        <h4 style="opacity: 0">Secondary title</h4>
+        <h5 style="opacity: 0.1">Secondary title</h5>
+      </header>
+      <section style="display: block; visibility: hidden">
+        <p>Hello <strong>World</strong></p>
+      </section>
+    </div>
+  `)
+
+  expect(container.querySelector('header')).toBeVisible()
+  expect(container.querySelector('h1')).not.toBeVisible()
+  expect(container.querySelector('h2')).not.toBeVisible()
+  expect(container.querySelector('h3')).not.toBeVisible()
+  expect(container.querySelector('h4')).not.toBeVisible()
+  expect(container.querySelector('h5')).toBeVisible()
+  expect(container.querySelector('strong')).not.toBeVisible()
+
+  expect(() =>
+    expect(container.querySelector('header')).not.toBeVisible(),
+  ).toThrowError()
+  expect(() =>
+    expect(container.querySelector('p')).toBeVisible(),
+  ).toThrowError()
+})
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 386c19e0..6750ac4d 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import {toHaveTextContent} from './to-have-text-content'
 import {toHaveAttribute} from './to-have-attribute'
 import {toHaveClass} from './to-have-class'
 import {toHaveStyle} from './to-have-style'
+import {toBeVisible} from './to-be-visible'
 
 export {
   toBeInTheDOM,
@@ -10,4 +11,5 @@ export {
   toHaveAttribute,
   toHaveClass,
   toHaveStyle,
+  toBeVisible,
 }
diff --git a/src/to-be-visible.js b/src/to-be-visible.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38b67321
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/to-be-visible.js
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import {matcherHint} from 'jest-matcher-utils'
+import {checkHtmlElement, getMessage} from './utils'
+
+function isStyleVisible(element) {
+  const {display, visibility, opacity} = getComputedStyle(element)
+  return (
+    display !== 'none' &&
+    visibility !== 'hidden' &&
+    visibility !== 'collapse' &&
+    opacity !== '0' &&
+    opacity !== 0
+  )
+}
+
+function isElementVisible(element) {
+  return (
+    isStyleVisible(element) &&
+    (!element.parentElement || isElementVisible(element.parentElement))
+  )
+}
+
+export function toBeVisible(element) {
+  checkHtmlElement(element)
+  const isVisible = isElementVisible(element)
+  return {
+    pass: isVisible,
+    message: () => {
+      const to = this.isNot ? 'not to' : 'to'
+      const is = isVisible ? 'is' : 'is not'
+      return getMessage(
+        matcherHint(`${this.isNot ? '.not' : ''}.toBeVisible`, 'element', ''),
+        'Expected',
+        `element ${to} be visible`,
+        'Received',
+        `element ${is} visible`,
+      )
+    },
+  }
+}