diff --git a/doc/api/index.rst b/doc/api/index.rst
index 0426f79385d..e08f1c0aacb 100644
--- a/doc/api/index.rst
+++ b/doc/api/index.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Operations on tabular data:
 
     blockmean
     blockmedian
+    blockmode
     surface
 
 Operations on grids:
diff --git a/pygmt/__init__.py b/pygmt/__init__.py
index 4963c21a163..554f8646e4d 100644
--- a/pygmt/__init__.py
+++ b/pygmt/__init__.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 from pygmt.src import (
     blockmean,
     blockmedian,
+    blockmode,
     config,
     grd2cpt,
     grdclip,
diff --git a/pygmt/src/__init__.py b/pygmt/src/__init__.py
index e70e74367b6..a7f1e1c74ef 100644
--- a/pygmt/src/__init__.py
+++ b/pygmt/src/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
 
 from pygmt.src.basemap import basemap
-from pygmt.src.blockm import blockmean, blockmedian
+from pygmt.src.blockm import blockmean, blockmedian, blockmode
 from pygmt.src.coast import coast
 from pygmt.src.colorbar import colorbar
 from pygmt.src.config import config
diff --git a/pygmt/src/blockm.py b/pygmt/src/blockm.py
index b835d174d8a..a0484cfae97 100644
--- a/pygmt/src/blockm.py
+++ b/pygmt/src/blockm.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-blockm - Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean or median estimation.
+blockm - Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean, median, or mode estimation.
 """
 import pandas as pd
 from pygmt.clib import Session
@@ -14,18 +14,19 @@
 
 def _blockm(block_method, table, outfile, x, y, z, **kwargs):
     r"""
-    Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean or median estimation.
+    Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mean, median, or mode estimation.
 
     Reads arbitrarily located (x,y,z) triples [or optionally weighted
-    quadruples (x,y,z,w)] from a table and writes to the output a mean or
-    median (depending on ``block_method``) position and value for every
-    non-empty block in a grid region defined by the ``region`` and ``spacing``
-    parameters.
+    quadruples (x,y,z,w)] from a table and writes to the output a mean,
+    median, or mode (depending on ``block_method``) position and value for
+    every non-empty block in a grid region defined by the ``region`` and
+    ``spacing`` parameters.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
     block_method : str
-        Name of the GMT module to call. Must be "blockmean" or "blockmedian".
+        Name of the GMT module to call. Must be "blockmean", "blockmedian" or
+        "blockmode".
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -226,3 +227,82 @@ def blockmedian(table=None, outfile=None, *, x=None, y=None, z=None, **kwargs):
         z=z,
         **kwargs
     )
+
+
+@fmt_docstring
+@use_alias(
+    I="spacing",
+    R="region",
+    V="verbose",
+    a="aspatial",
+    b="binary",
+    d="data",
+    e="find",
+    f="coltypes",
+    h="header",
+    i="incols",
+    o="outcols",
+    r="registration",
+    s="skiprows",
+    w="wrap",
+)
+@kwargs_to_strings(R="sequence", i="sequence_comma")
+def blockmode(table=None, outfile=None, *, x=None, y=None, z=None, **kwargs):
+    r"""
+    Block average (x,y,z) data tables by mode estimation.
+
+    Reads arbitrarily located (x,y,z) triples [or optionally weighted
+    quadruples (x,y,z,w)] and writes to the output a mode position and value
+    for every non-empty block in a grid region defined by the ``region`` and
+    ``spacing`` parameters.
+
+    Takes a matrix, xyz triplets, or a file name as input.
+
+    Must provide either ``table`` or ``x``, ``y``, and ``z``.
+
+    Full option list at :gmt-docs:`blockmode.html`
+
+    {aliases}
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    table : str or {table-like}
+        Pass in (x, y, z) or (longitude, latitude, elevation) values by
+        providing a file name to an ASCII data table, a 2D
+        {table-classes}.
+    x/y/z : 1d arrays
+        Arrays of x and y coordinates and values z of the data points.
+
+    {I}
+
+    {R}
+
+    outfile : str
+        The file name for the output ASCII file.
+
+    {V}
+    {a}
+    {b}
+    {d}
+    {e}
+    {f}
+    {h}
+    {i}
+    {o}
+    {r}
+    {s}
+    {w}
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    output : pandas.DataFrame or None
+        Return type depends on whether the ``outfile`` parameter is set:
+
+        - :class:`pandas.DataFrame` table with (x, y, z) columns if ``outfile``
+          is not set.
+        - None if ``outfile`` is set (filtered output will be stored in file
+          set by ``outfile``).
+    """
+    return _blockm(
+        block_method="blockmode", table=table, outfile=outfile, x=x, y=y, z=z, **kwargs
+    )
diff --git a/pygmt/tests/test_blockmean.py b/pygmt/tests/test_blockm.py
similarity index 86%
rename from pygmt/tests/test_blockmean.py
rename to pygmt/tests/test_blockm.py
index 67f232a6c6e..39a0e315f7f 100644
--- a/pygmt/tests/test_blockmean.py
+++ b/pygmt/tests/test_blockm.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 """
-Tests for blockmean.
+Tests for blockmean and blockmode.
 """
 import os
 
 import numpy.testing as npt
 import pandas as pd
 import pytest
-from pygmt import blockmean
+from pygmt import blockmean, blockmode
 from pygmt.datasets import load_sample_bathymetry
 from pygmt.exceptions import GMTInvalidInput
 from pygmt.helpers import GMTTempFile, data_kind
@@ -96,3 +96,14 @@ def test_blockmean_without_outfile_setting():
     assert isinstance(output, pd.DataFrame)
     assert output.shape == (5849, 3)
     npt.assert_allclose(output.iloc[0], [245.888877, 29.978707, -384.0])
+
+
+def test_blockmode_input_dataframe(dataframe):
+    """
+    Run blockmode by passing in a pandas.DataFrame as input.
+    """
+    output = blockmode(table=dataframe, spacing="5m", region=[245, 255, 20, 30])
+    assert isinstance(output, pd.DataFrame)
+    assert all(dataframe.columns == output.columns)
+    assert output.shape == (5849, 3)
+    npt.assert_allclose(output.iloc[0], [245.88819, 29.97895, -385.0])