diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 142df6a208..9b7ab25545 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ A brief description of the categories of changes:
 
 ### Fixed
 
+* (whl_library): Fix the experimental_target_platforms overriding for platform
+  specific wheels when the wheels are for any python interpreter version. Fixes
+  [#1810](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/1810).
+
 ### Added
 
 * New Python versions available: `3.11.8`, `3.12.2` using
diff --git a/python/pip_install/pip_repository.bzl b/python/pip_install/pip_repository.bzl
index ded7112144..3d5f3c1eb8 100644
--- a/python/pip_install/pip_repository.bzl
+++ b/python/pip_install/pip_repository.bzl
@@ -801,8 +801,11 @@ def _whl_library_impl(rctx):
             # NOTE @aignas 2023-12-04: if the wheel is a platform specific
             # wheel, we only include deps for that target platform
             target_platforms = [
-                "{}_{}_{}".format(parsed_whl.abi_tag, p.os, p.cpu)
-                for p in whl_target_platforms(parsed_whl.platform_tag)
+                p.target_platform
+                for p in whl_target_platforms(
+                    platform_tag = parsed_whl.platform_tag,
+                    abi_tag = parsed_whl.abi_tag,
+                )
             ]
 
     repo_utils.execute_checked(
diff --git a/python/private/whl_target_platforms.bzl b/python/private/whl_target_platforms.bzl
index 2c63efe26f..30e4dd4c7a 100644
--- a/python/private/whl_target_platforms.bzl
+++ b/python/private/whl_target_platforms.bzl
@@ -40,28 +40,41 @@ _OS_PREFIXES = {
     "win": "windows",
 }  # buildifier: disable=unsorted-dict-items
 
-def whl_target_platforms(tag):
-    """Parse the wheel platform tag and return (os, cpu) tuples.
+def whl_target_platforms(platform_tag, abi_tag = ""):
+    """Parse the wheel abi and platform tags and return (os, cpu) tuples.
 
     Args:
-        tag (str): The platform_tag part of the wheel name. See
+        platform_tag (str): The platform_tag part of the wheel name. See
             ./parse_whl_name.bzl for more details.
+        abi_tag (str): The abi tag that should be used for parsing.
 
     Returns:
         A list of structs, with attributes:
         * os: str, one of the _OS_PREFIXES values
         * cpu: str, one of the _CPU_PREFIXES values
+        * abi: str, the ABI that the interpreter should have if it is passed.
+        * target_platform: str, the target_platform that can be given to the
+          wheel_installer for parsing whl METADATA.
     """
-    cpus = _cpu_from_tag(tag)
+    cpus = _cpu_from_tag(platform_tag)
+
+    abi = None
+    if abi_tag not in ["", "none", "abi3"]:
+        abi = abi_tag
 
     for prefix, os in _OS_PREFIXES.items():
-        if tag.startswith(prefix):
+        if platform_tag.startswith(prefix):
             return [
-                struct(os = os, cpu = cpu)
+                struct(
+                    os = os,
+                    cpu = cpu,
+                    abi = abi,
+                    target_platform = "_".join([abi, os, cpu] if abi else [os, cpu]),
+                )
                 for cpu in cpus
             ]
 
-    fail("unknown tag os: {}".format(tag))
+    fail("unknown platform_tag os: {}".format(platform_tag))
 
 def _cpu_from_tag(tag):
     candidate = [
diff --git a/tests/private/whl_target_platforms/whl_target_platforms_tests.bzl b/tests/private/whl_target_platforms/whl_target_platforms_tests.bzl
index 9ccff0e485..f52437fd3c 100644
--- a/tests/private/whl_target_platforms/whl_target_platforms_tests.bzl
+++ b/tests/private/whl_target_platforms/whl_target_platforms_tests.bzl
@@ -22,29 +22,56 @@ _tests = []
 def _test_simple(env):
     tests = {
         "macosx_10_9_arm64": [
-            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "aarch64"),
+            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "aarch64", abi = None, target_platform = "osx_aarch64"),
         ],
         "macosx_10_9_universal2": [
-            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "x86_64"),
-            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "aarch64"),
+            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "x86_64", abi = None, target_platform = "osx_x86_64"),
+            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "aarch64", abi = None, target_platform = "osx_aarch64"),
         ],
         "manylinux1_i686.manylinux_2_17_i686": [
-            struct(os = "linux", cpu = "x86_32"),
+            struct(os = "linux", cpu = "x86_32", abi = None, target_platform = "linux_x86_32"),
         ],
         "musllinux_1_1_ppc64le": [
-            struct(os = "linux", cpu = "ppc"),
+            struct(os = "linux", cpu = "ppc", abi = None, target_platform = "linux_ppc"),
         ],
         "win_amd64": [
-            struct(os = "windows", cpu = "x86_64"),
+            struct(os = "windows", cpu = "x86_64", abi = None, target_platform = "windows_x86_64"),
         ],
     }
 
     for give, want in tests.items():
-        got = whl_target_platforms(give)
-        env.expect.that_collection(got).contains_exactly(want)
+        for abi in ["", "abi3", "none"]:
+            got = whl_target_platforms(give, abi)
+            env.expect.that_collection(got).contains_exactly(want)
 
 _tests.append(_test_simple)
 
+def _test_with_abi(env):
+    tests = {
+        "macosx_10_9_arm64": [
+            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "aarch64", abi = "cp39", target_platform = "cp39_osx_aarch64"),
+        ],
+        "macosx_10_9_universal2": [
+            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "x86_64", abi = "cp310", target_platform = "cp310_osx_x86_64"),
+            struct(os = "osx", cpu = "aarch64", abi = "cp310", target_platform = "cp310_osx_aarch64"),
+        ],
+        "manylinux1_i686.manylinux_2_17_i686": [
+            struct(os = "linux", cpu = "x86_32", abi = "cp38", target_platform = "cp38_linux_x86_32"),
+        ],
+        "musllinux_1_1_ppc64le": [
+            struct(os = "linux", cpu = "ppc", abi = "cp311", target_platform = "cp311_linux_ppc"),
+        ],
+        "win_amd64": [
+            struct(os = "windows", cpu = "x86_64", abi = "cp311", target_platform = "cp311_windows_x86_64"),
+        ],
+    }
+
+    for give, want in tests.items():
+        got = whl_target_platforms(give, want[0].abi)
+        env.expect.that_collection(got).contains_exactly(want)
+
+_tests.append(_test_with_abi)
+
 def whl_target_platforms_test_suite(name):
     """Create the test suite.