diff --git a/Lib/test/pickletester.py b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
index 9a3a26a8400844..c5b3b27ba1acef 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pickletester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
@@ -2964,6 +2964,10 @@ def test_float(self):
                 got = self.loads(pickle)
                 self.assert_is_copy(value, got)
 
+    def test_float_whitespace(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.loads(b'F 1.2 \n.'), 1.2)
+        self.assertEqual(self.loads(b'F \t9 \n.'), 9)
+
     @run_with_locales('LC_ALL', 'de_DE', 'fr_FR', '')
     def test_float_format(self):
         # make sure that floats are formatted locale independent with proto 0
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-06-17-15-21-25.gh-issue-135580.kl7Eux.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-06-17-15-21-25.gh-issue-135580.kl7Eux.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4be11929acdba4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-06-17-15-21-25.gh-issue-135580.kl7Eux.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The :mod:`pickle` ``FLOAT`` opcode now tolerates trailing and leading whitespace in both C and Python implementations.
diff --git a/Modules/_pickle.c b/Modules/_pickle.c
index cf3ceb43fb3f3f..fed05036dea0b2 100644
--- a/Modules/_pickle.c
+++ b/Modules/_pickle.c
@@ -5445,25 +5445,18 @@ load_counted_long(PickleState *st, UnpicklerObject *self, int size)
 static int
 load_float(PickleState *state, UnpicklerObject *self)
 {
-    PyObject *value;
-    char *endptr, *s;
+    PyObject *value, *s_obj;
+    char *s;
     Py_ssize_t len;
-    double d;
 
     if ((len = _Unpickler_Readline(state, self, &s)) < 0)
         return -1;
     if (len < 2)
         return bad_readline(state);
 
-    errno = 0;
-    d = PyOS_string_to_double(s, &endptr, PyExc_OverflowError);
-    if (d == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred())
-        return -1;
-    if ((endptr[0] != '\n') && (endptr[0] != '\0')) {
-        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "could not convert string to float");
-        return -1;
-    }
-    value = PyFloat_FromDouble(d);
+    s_obj = PyUnicode_FromString(s);
+    value = PyFloat_FromString(s_obj);
+
     if (value == NULL)
         return -1;