diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/__tests__/createSitemap.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/__tests__/createSitemap.test.ts
index fb29688d32..8f75ac8fad 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/__tests__/createSitemap.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/__tests__/createSitemap.test.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,22 @@ describe('createSitemap', () => {
     expect(() => {
       createSitemap({} as any, [], {} as any);
     }).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
-      `"Url in docusaurus.config.js cannot be empty/undefined"`,
+      `"url in docusaurus.config.js cannot be empty/undefined"`,
     );
   });
+
+  test('exclusion of 404 page', () => {
+    const sitemap = createSitemap(
+      {
+        url: 'https://example.com',
+      } as DocusaurusConfig,
+      ['/', '/404.html', '/mypage'],
+      {
+        cacheTime: 600,
+        changefreq: 'daily',
+        priority: 0.7,
+      },
+    );
+    expect(sitemap.toString()).not.toContain('404');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/createSitemap.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/createSitemap.ts
index 4f817dbf9c..3d22bb6ea9 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/createSitemap.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-sitemap/src/createSitemap.ts
@@ -16,17 +16,19 @@ export default function createSitemap(
 ) {
   const {url: hostname} = siteConfig;
   if (!hostname) {
-    throw new Error('Url in docusaurus.config.js cannot be empty/undefined');
+    throw new Error('url in docusaurus.config.js cannot be empty/undefined');
   }
 
-  const urls = routesPaths.map(
-    (routesPath) =>
-      ({
-        url: routesPath,
-        changefreq: options.changefreq,
-        priority: options.priority,
-      } as SitemapItemOptions),
-  );
+  const urls = routesPaths
+    .filter((route: string) => !route.endsWith('404.html'))
+    .map(
+      (routesPath) =>
+        ({
+          url: routesPath,
+          changefreq: options.changefreq,
+          priority: options.priority,
+        } as SitemapItemOptions),
+    );
 
   return sitemap.createSitemap({
     hostname,