diff --git a/src/borg/archiver/create_cmd.py b/src/borg/archiver/create_cmd.py
index 2843a5821..ecc356e62 100644
--- a/src/borg/archiver/create_cmd.py
+++ b/src/borg/archiver/create_cmd.py
@@ -211,6 +211,14 @@ class CreateMixIn:
                     # do not save the archive if the user ctrl-c-ed.
                     raise Error("Got Ctrl-C / SIGINT.")
                 else:
+                    # deal with tags
+                    if args.tags is not None:
+                        tags = {tag for tag in args.tags if tag}
+                        special = {tag for tag in tags if tag.startswith("@")}
+                        if not special.issubset(SPECIAL_TAGS):
+                            raise Error("Unknown special tags given.")
+                        archive.tags = tags
+
                     archive.save(comment=args.comment, timestamp=args.timestamp)
                     args.stats |= args.json
                     if args.stats:
@@ -595,6 +603,8 @@ class CreateMixIn:
         The archive will consume almost no disk space for files or parts of files that
         have already been stored in other archives.
 
+        The ``--tags`` option can be used to add a list of tags to the new archive.
+
         The archive name does not need to be unique; you can and should use the same
         name for a series of archives. The unique archive identifier is its ID (hash),
         and you can abbreviate the ID as long as it is unique.
@@ -995,6 +1005,14 @@ class CreateMixIn:
             action=Highlander,
             help="explicitly set username for the archive",
         )
+        archive_group.add_argument(
+            "--tags",
+            metavar="TAG",
+            dest="tags",
+            type=helpers.tag_validator,
+            nargs="+",
+            help="add tags to archive (comma-separated or multiple arguments)",
+        )
 
         subparser.add_argument("name", metavar="NAME", type=archivename_validator, help="specify the archive name")
         subparser.add_argument(
diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/create_cmd_test.py b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/create_cmd_test.py
index 1622b834e..7031632e7 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/create_cmd_test.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver/create_cmd_test.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from ...constants import zeros
 from ...manifest import Manifest
 from ...platform import is_win32
 from ...repository import Repository
-from ...helpers import CommandError, BackupPermissionError
+from ...helpers import CommandError, BackupPermissionError, Error
 from .. import has_lchflags, has_mknod
 from .. import changedir
 from .. import (
@@ -682,6 +682,28 @@ def test_file_status(archivers, request):
     assert "A input/file2" in output
 
 
+def test_create_tags(archivers, request):
+    archiver = request.getfixturevalue(archivers)
+    create_test_files(archiver.input_path)
+    cmd(archiver, "repo-create", RK_ENCRYPTION)
+    cmd(archiver, "create", "--tags", "foo", "bar", "baz", "--", "test", "input")
+    info = cmd(archiver, "info", "--json", "test")
+    info = json.loads(info)
+    assert sorted(info["archives"][0]["tags"]) == ["bar", "baz", "foo"]
+
+
+def test_create_invalid_tags(archivers, request):
+    archiver = request.getfixturevalue(archivers)
+    create_test_files(archiver.input_path)
+    cmd(archiver, "repo-create", RK_ENCRYPTION)
+    if archiver.FORK_DEFAULT:
+        output = cmd(archiver, "create", "--tags", "@INVALID", "--", "test", "input", exit_code=EXIT_ERROR)
+        assert "Unknown special tags given" in output
+    else:
+        with pytest.raises(Error):
+            cmd(archiver, "create", "--tags", "@INVALID", "--", "test", "input")
+
+
 @pytest.mark.skipif(
     is_win32, reason="ctime attribute is file creation time on Windows"
 )  # see https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.stat_result.st_ctime