diff --git a/stdlib/tarfile.pyi b/stdlib/tarfile.pyi
index e52099464174..9a95db9d2c79 100644
--- a/stdlib/tarfile.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/tarfile.pyi
@@ -103,10 +103,32 @@ PAX_NAME_FIELDS: set[str]
 
 ENCODING: str
 
+_FileCreationModes: TypeAlias = Literal["a", "w", "x"]
+
+@overload
 def open(
     name: StrOrBytesPath | None = None,
     mode: str = "r",
-    fileobj: IO[bytes] | None = None,  # depends on mode
+    fileobj: IO[bytes] | None = None,
+    bufsize: int = 10240,
+    *,
+    format: int | None = ...,
+    tarinfo: type[TarInfo] | None = ...,
+    dereference: bool | None = ...,
+    ignore_zeros: bool | None = ...,
+    encoding: str | None = ...,
+    errors: str = ...,
+    pax_headers: Mapping[str, str] | None = ...,
+    debug: int | None = ...,
+    errorlevel: int | None = ...,
+    compresslevel: int | None = ...,
+    preset: Literal[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] | None = ...,
+) -> TarFile: ...
+@overload
+def open(
+    name: StrOrBytesPath | None = None,
+    mode: _FileCreationModes = ...,
+    fileobj: _Fileobj | None = None,
     bufsize: int = 10240,
     *,
     format: int | None = ...,