diff --git a/src/Utilities/Locale.php b/src/Utilities/Locale.php
index ee391a2..bb89a73 100644
--- a/src/Utilities/Locale.php
+++ b/src/Utilities/Locale.php
@@ -61,6 +61,27 @@ class Locale
         return setlocale($category, $localeLongForm);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns locale for given category
+     *
+     * @param int $category Named constant specifying the category of the functions affected by the locale setting.
+     *                      It's the same constant as required by setlocale() function.
+     * @return string
+     *
+     * Available categories (values of $category argument):
+     * - LC_ALL for all of the below
+     * - LC_COLLATE for string comparison, see strcoll()
+     * - LC_CTYPE for character classification and conversion, for example strtoupper()
+     * - LC_MONETARY for localeconv()
+     * - LC_NUMERIC for decimal separator (See also localeconv())
+     * - LC_TIME for date and time formatting with strftime()
+     * - LC_MESSAGES for system responses (available if PHP was compiled with libintl)
+     */
+    public static function getLocale($category)
+    {
+        return setlocale($category, '0');
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns long form of the locale
      *
diff --git a/tests/Utilities/LocaleTest.php b/tests/Utilities/LocaleTest.php
index c990235..b695469 100644
--- a/tests/Utilities/LocaleTest.php
+++ b/tests/Utilities/LocaleTest.php
@@ -75,6 +75,21 @@ class LocaleTest extends BaseTestCase
         self::assertEquals($expectedLocale, Locale::setLocale($category, $languageCode, $countryCode));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param int    $category       Named constant specifying the category of the functions affected by the locale setting.
+     *                               It's the same constant as required by setlocale() function.
+     * @param string $languageCode   Language code, in ISO 639-1 format. Short form of the locale, e.g. "fr".
+     * @param string $countryCode    Country code, in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format, e.g. "FR"
+     * @param string $expectedLocale Expected locale
+     *
+     * @dataProvider provideCategoryLanguageCodeAndExpectedLocale
+     */
+    public function testGetLocale($category, $languageCode, $countryCode, $expectedLocale)
+    {
+        Locale::setLocale($category, $languageCode, $countryCode);
+        self::assertEquals($expectedLocale, Locale::getLocale($category));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Provides language, encoding and country code
      *