diff --git a/src/traces/sankey/attributes.js b/src/traces/sankey/attributes.js
index b9144ad0e4c..ccd3a6867d6 100644
--- a/src/traces/sankey/attributes.js
+++ b/src/traces/sankey/attributes.js
@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ var attrs = module.exports = overrideAll({
                 ].join(' ')
             }
         },
+        align: {
+            valType: 'enumerated',
+            values: ['justify', 'left', 'right', 'center'],
+            dflt: 'justify',
+            role: 'calc',
+            description: [
+                'Sets the alignment method used to position the nodes along the horizontal axis.'
+            ].join(' ')
+        },
         pad: {
             valType: 'number',
             arrayOk: false,
diff --git a/src/traces/sankey/defaults.js b/src/traces/sankey/defaults.js
index c5283910ade..362f6031d71 100644
--- a/src/traces/sankey/defaults.js
+++ b/src/traces/sankey/defaults.js
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ module.exports = function supplyDefaults(traceIn, traceOut, defaultColor, layout
     coerceNode('hoverinfo', traceIn.hoverinfo);
     handleHoverLabelDefaults(nodeIn, nodeOut, coerceNode, hoverlabelDefault);
     coerceNode('hovertemplate');
+    coerceNode('align');
 
     var colors = layout.colorway;
 
diff --git a/src/traces/sankey/render.js b/src/traces/sankey/render.js
index 88b27dbdafc..097a7273164 100644
--- a/src/traces/sankey/render.js
+++ b/src/traces/sankey/render.js
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ function sankeyModel(layout, d, traceIndex) {
     var horizontal = trace.orientation === 'h';
     var nodePad = trace.node.pad;
     var nodeThickness = trace.node.thickness;
+    var nodeAlign = {
+        'justify': d3Sankey.sankeyJustify,
+        'left': d3Sankey.sankeyLeft,
+        'right': d3Sankey.sankeyRight,
+        'center': d3Sankey.sankeyCenter
+    }[trace.node.align];
 
     var width = layout.width * (domain.x[1] - domain.x[0]);
     var height = layout.height * (domain.y[1] - domain.y[0]);
@@ -58,6 +64,7 @@ function sankeyModel(layout, d, traceIndex) {
       .size(horizontal ? [width, height] : [height, width])
       .nodeWidth(nodeThickness)
       .nodePadding(nodePad)
+      .nodeAlign(nodeAlign)
       .nodes(nodes)
       .links(links);
 
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/sankey_circular_align_right.png b/test/image/baselines/sankey_circular_align_right.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..052687e782d
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/image/baselines/sankey_circular_align_right.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/mocks/sankey_circular_align_right.json b/test/image/mocks/sankey_circular_align_right.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b9a93b44ae4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image/mocks/sankey_circular_align_right.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+    "data": [
+        {
+            "type": "sankey",
+            "node": {
+                "pad": 5,
+                "align": "right",
+                "label": ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6"]
+            },
+            "link": {
+                "source": [
+                    0, 0, 1, 2, 5, 4, 3
+                ],
+                "target": [
+                    5, 3, 4, 3, 0, 2, 2
+                ],
+                "value": [
+                    1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
+                ]
+            }
+        }],
+    "layout": {
+        "title": "Sankey with circular data, aligned right",
+        "width": 800,
+        "height": 800
+    }
+}