diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 017201767..e4fb2189e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Bug fixes / Maintenance
 - perform distributed testing related reporting in the xdist-plugin 
   rather than having dist-related code in the generic py.test 
   distribution
+- fix homedir detection on Windows 
 
 Changes between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1
 ==================================================
diff --git a/py/_path/local.py b/py/_path/local.py
index 760575aea..156a88934 100644
--- a/py/_path/local.py
+++ b/py/_path/local.py
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ class LocalPath(FSBase):
         try:
             x = os.environ['HOME']
         except KeyError:
-            x = os.environ['HOMEPATH']
+            x = os.environ["HOMEDRIVE"] + os.environ['HOMEPATH']
         return cls(x)
     _gethomedir = classmethod(_gethomedir)