diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
index cfcf617cedf9c..d0eaafb787222 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """ test parquet compat """
 import datetime
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+import locale
 import os
 from warnings import catch_warnings
 
@@ -483,6 +484,11 @@ def test_categorical(self, pa):
             expected = df.astype(object)
             check_round_trip(df, pa, expected=expected)
 
+    # GH#33077 2020-03-27
+    @pytest.mark.xfail(
+        locale.getlocale()[0] == "zh_CN",
+        reason="dateutil cannot parse e.g. '五, 27 3月 2020 21:45:38 GMT'",
+    )
     def test_s3_roundtrip(self, df_compat, s3_resource, pa):
         # GH #19134
         check_round_trip(df_compat, pa, path="s3://pandas-test/pyarrow.parquet")