diff --git a/tests/pkg_minmea/Makefile b/tests/pkg_minmea/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..59334a3d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pkg_minmea/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+APPLICATION = pkg_minmea
+include ../Makefile.tests_common
+
+USEPKG += minmea
+
+# The MSP-430 toolchain lacks mktime and NAN
+BOARD_BLACKLIST := chronos msb-430 msb-430h telosb wsn430-v1_3b wsn430-v1_4 z1
+
+include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include
diff --git a/tests/pkg_minmea/main.c b/tests/pkg_minmea/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e85cee042
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pkg_minmea/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ *
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+ * directory for more details.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @ingroup     test
+ * @{
+ *
+ * @file
+ * @brief       minmea GPS NMEA parser library package test application
+ *
+ * @author      Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
+ *
+ * @}
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include "minmea.h"
+
+static const char *_gll = "$GNGLL,5229.0178,N,01326.7605,E,114350.000,A,A*45";
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    struct minmea_sentence_gll frame;
+
+    int res = minmea_parse_gll(&frame, _gll);
+    if (!res) {
+        puts("error parsing GPS sentence");
+    }
+    else {
+        printf("parsed coordinates: lat=%f lon=%f\n",
+                minmea_tocoord(&frame.latitude),
+                minmea_tocoord(&frame.longitude));
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}