diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index df6c9d175..5942caf97 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Validator                               | Description
 **isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])**          | check if the string is a mobile phone number,<br/><br/>(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['am-Am', 'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'cs-CZ', 'da-DK', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'de-CH', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-MO', 'en-IE', 'en-IN',  'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-PK', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-SL', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-ZW' , 'es-CL', 'es-CR', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fo-FO', 'fr-BE', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'kk-KZ', 'kl-GL', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-BR', 'pt-PT', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-MO', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).<br/><br/>`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
 **isMongoId(str)**                      | check if the string is a valid hex-encoded representation of a [MongoDB ObjectId][mongoid].
 **isMultibyte(str)**                    | check if the string contains one or more multibyte chars.
-**isNumeric(str [, options])**                      | check if the string contains only numbers.<br/><br/>`options` is an object which defaults to `{no_symbols: false}`. If `no_symbols` is true, the validator will reject numeric strings that feature a symbol (e.g. `+`, `-`, or `.`).
+**isNumeric(str [, options])**                      | check if the string contains only numbers.<br/><br/>`options` is an object which defaults to `{no_symbols: false}` it also has locale as an option. If `no_symbols` is true, the validator will reject numeric strings that feature a symbol (e.g. `+`, `-`, or `.`).<br/><br/>`locale` determine the decimal separator and is one of `['ar', 'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', 'ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-LB', 'ar-LY', 'ar-MA', 'ar-QA', 'ar-QM', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SD', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'ar-YE', 'bg-BG', 'cs-CZ', 'da-DK', 'de-DE', 'en-AU', 'en-GB', 'en-HK', 'en-IN', 'en-NZ', 'en-US', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'es-ES', 'fr-FR', 'hu-HU', 'it-IT', 'nb-NO', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-BR', 'pt-PT', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sr-RS', 'sr-RS@latin', 'sv-SE', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA']`.
 **isOctal(str)**                        | check if the string is a valid octal number.
 **isPassportNumber(str, countryCode)**    | check if the string is a valid passport number.<br/><br/>(countryCode is one of `[ 'AM', 'AR', 'AT', 'AU', 'BE', 'BG', 'CA', 'CH', 'CN', 'CY', 'CZ', 'DE', 'DK', 'DZ', 'EE', 'ES', 'FI', 'FR', 'GB', 'GR', 'HR', 'HU', 'IE' 'IN', 'IS', 'IT', 'JP', 'KR', 'LT', 'LU', 'LV', 'MT', 'NL', 'PO', 'PT', 'RO', 'SE', 'SL', 'SK', 'TR', 'UA', 'US' ]`.
 **isPort(str)**                         | check if the string is a valid port number.
diff --git a/src/lib/isNumeric.js b/src/lib/isNumeric.js
index 65649ae88..4cc7ea5b3 100644
--- a/src/lib/isNumeric.js
+++ b/src/lib/isNumeric.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import assertString from './util/assertString';
+import { decimal } from './alpha';
 
-const numeric = /^[+-]?([0-9]*[.])?[0-9]+$/;
 const numericNoSymbols = /^[0-9]+$/;
 
 export default function isNumeric(str, options) {
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ export default function isNumeric(str, options) {
   if (options && options.no_symbols) {
     return numericNoSymbols.test(str);
   }
-  return numeric.test(str);
+  return (new RegExp(`^[+-]?([0-9]*[${(options || {}).locale ? decimal[options.locale] : '.'}])?[0-9]+$`)).test(str);
 }
diff --git a/test/validators.js b/test/validators.js
index 699d27232..b0b37b117 100755
--- a/test/validators.js
+++ b/test/validators.js
@@ -1839,6 +1839,30 @@ describe('Validators', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('should validate numeric strings with locale', () => {
+    test({
+      validator: 'isNumeric',
+      args: [{
+        locale: 'fr-FR',
+      }],
+      valid: [
+        '123',
+        '00123',
+        '-00123',
+        '0',
+        '-0',
+        '+123',
+        '123,123',
+        '+000000',
+      ],
+      invalid: [
+        ' ',
+        '',
+        ',',
+      ],
+    });
+  });
+
   it('should validate ports', () => {
     test({
       validator: 'isPort',