diff --git a/cpp/purify/h5reader.h b/cpp/purify/h5reader.h
index 965a636b9..be56357f3 100644
--- a/cpp/purify/h5reader.h
+++ b/cpp/purify/h5reader.h
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ class H5Handler {
   size_t _datalen, _slicepos, _slicelen, _batchpos;
 };
 
-/// @brief Reads an HDF5 file with u,v visibilities, constructs a vis_params objects and returns it.
+/// @brief Reads an HDF5 file with u,v visibilities, constructs a vis_params object and returns it.
 ///
 /// @note vis_name: name of input HDF5 file containing [u, v, real(V), imag(V)].
 utilities::vis_params read_visibility(const std::string& vis_name, const bool w_term) {
@@ -240,6 +240,50 @@ utilities::vis_params stochread_visibility(H5Handler& file, const size_t N, cons
   return uv_vis;
 }
 
+/// @brief Write an HDF5 file with u,v visibilities from a vis_params object.
+void write_visibility(const utilities::vis_params& uv_vis, const std::string& h5name,
+                      const bool w_term, const size_t chunksize = 0) {
+  // Set up HDF5 file
+  HighFive::File h5file(h5name, HighFive::File::OpenOrCreate | HighFive::File::Truncate);
+  // Set up file properties, such as chunking and compression
+  // Note: the I/O is minimised if compression is disabled (obvs)
+  // If using decompressed data is not an option, then the
+  // I/O performance can be optimised by chunking the dataset
+  // in such a way that each MPI rank only has to decompress
+  // its allocated segment (or a subset thereof)
+  HighFive::DataSetCreateProps props;
+  if (uv_vis.u.size()) {
+    if (chunksize > 0) {
+      props.add(HighFive::Chunking(std::vector<hsize_t>{chunksize}));
+    } else {
+      props.add(HighFive::Chunking(std::vector<hsize_t>{static_cast<hsize_t>(uv_vis.u.size())}));
+    }
+    props.add(HighFive::Deflate(9));  // maximal compression
+  }
+  // Create the H5 datasets
+  h5file.createDataSet("u", std::vector<t_real>(uv_vis.u.data(), uv_vis.u.data() + uv_vis.u.size()),
+                       props);
+  h5file.createDataSet("v", std::vector<t_real>(uv_vis.v.data(), uv_vis.v.data() + uv_vis.v.size()),
+                       props);
+  if (w_term) {
+    h5file.createDataSet(
+        "w", std::vector<t_real>(uv_vis.w.data(), uv_vis.w.data() + uv_vis.w.size()), props);
+  }
+
+  std::vector<t_real> redata, imdata, sigma;
+  redata.reserve(uv_vis.vis.size());
+  imdata.reserve(uv_vis.vis.size());
+  sigma.reserve(uv_vis.weights.size());
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < uv_vis.vis.size(); ++i) {
+    redata.push_back(uv_vis.vis(i).real());
+    imdata.push_back(uv_vis.vis(i).imag());
+    sigma.push_back(1.0 / uv_vis.weights(i).real());
+  }
+  h5file.createDataSet("re", std::move(redata), props);
+  h5file.createDataSet("im", std::move(imdata), props);
+  h5file.createDataSet("sigma", std::move(imdata), props);
+}
+
 }  // namespace purify::H5
 
 #endif
diff --git a/cpp/tests/purify_h5.cc b/cpp/tests/purify_h5.cc
index 50bd42e01..fd0bed453 100644
--- a/cpp/tests/purify_h5.cc
+++ b/cpp/tests/purify_h5.cc
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include "purify/config.h"
 #include "purify/types.h"
 #include "purify/logging.h"
+#include "purify/read_measurements.h"
 
 #include "purify/directories.h"
 #include "purify/h5reader.h"
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@
 
 using namespace purify;
 
-TEST_CASE("Purify H5", "[HDF5]") {
+TEST_CASE("Purify H5 reader", "[HDF5]") {
   H5::H5Handler f(atca_filename("0332-391.h5"));
 
   const std::vector<double> u = f.read("u");
@@ -32,3 +33,31 @@ TEST_CASE("Purify H5", "[HDF5]") {
                     u.size() == re.size() && u.size() == im.size() && u.size() == sigma.size();
   CHECK(pass);
 }
+
+TEST_CASE("Purify H5 writer", "[HDF5]") {
+  const auto uvfits = read_measurements::read_measurements(atca_filename("0332-391.uvfits"));
+
+  H5::write_visibility(uvfits, "test-h5.h5", false);
+
+  H5::H5Handler f("test-h5.h5");
+
+  const std::vector<double> u = f.read("u");
+  const std::vector<double> v = f.read("v");
+  // const std::vector<double> w = f.read("w");
+  const std::vector<double> re = f.read("re");
+  const std::vector<double> im = f.read("im");
+  const std::vector<double> sigma = f.read("sigma");
+
+  CAPTURE(u.size());
+  CAPTURE(v.size());
+  // CAPTURE(w.size());
+  CAPTURE(re.size());
+  CAPTURE(im.size());
+  CAPTURE(sigma.size());
+
+  const bool pass = u.size() == uvfits.u.size() &&
+                    u.size() == v.size() && /*u.size() == w.size() &&*/
+                    u.size() == re.size() && u.size() == im.size() && u.size() == sigma.size();
+
+  CHECK(pass);
+}