diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/datetimes.py b/pandas/core/indexes/datetimes.py
index 57cbc76d1c2fa..b95a290a43189 100644
--- a/pandas/core/indexes/datetimes.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexes/datetimes.py
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ def date_range(
     tz : str or tzinfo, optional
         Time zone name for returning localized DatetimeIndex, for example
         'Asia/Hong_Kong'. By default, the resulting DatetimeIndex is
-        timezone-naive.
+        timezone-naive unless timezone-aware datetime-likes are passed.
     normalize : bool, default False
         Normalize start/end dates to midnight before generating date range.
     name : str, default None
@@ -900,6 +900,18 @@ def date_range(
                    '2018-01-05', '2018-01-06', '2018-01-07', '2018-01-08'],
                   dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq='D')
 
+    Specify timezone-aware `start` and `end`, with the default daily frequency.
+
+    >>> pd.date_range(
+    ...     start=pd.to_datetime("1/1/2018").tz_localize("Europe/Berlin"),
+    ...     end=pd.to_datetime("1/08/2018").tz_localize("Europe/Berlin"),
+    ... )
+    DatetimeIndex(['2018-01-01 00:00:00+01:00', '2018-01-02 00:00:00+01:00',
+                   '2018-01-03 00:00:00+01:00', '2018-01-04 00:00:00+01:00',
+                   '2018-01-05 00:00:00+01:00', '2018-01-06 00:00:00+01:00',
+                   '2018-01-07 00:00:00+01:00', '2018-01-08 00:00:00+01:00'],
+                  dtype='datetime64[ns, Europe/Berlin]', freq='D')
+
     Specify `start` and `periods`, the number of periods (days).
 
     >>> pd.date_range(start='1/1/2018', periods=8)