diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fea0632aaf..dc026ad682 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 - [#7305](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7305): UDP Client: Split large points. Thanks @vlasad
 - [#7115](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/7115): Feature request: `influx inspect -export` should dump WAL files.
 - [#7388](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7388): Implement cumulative_sum() function.
+- [#7441](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7441): Speed up shutdown by closing shards concurrently.
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/tsdb/store.go b/tsdb/store.go
index 2550f73d5d..7cca6a2147 100644
--- a/tsdb/store.go
+++ b/tsdb/store.go
@@ -229,11 +229,13 @@ func (s *Store) Close() error {
 	}
 	s.wg.Wait()
 
-	for _, sh := range s.shards {
-		if err := sh.Close(); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
+	// Close all the shards in parallel.
+	if err := s.walkShards(s.shardsSlice(), func(sh *Shard) error {
+		return sh.Close()
+	}); err != nil {
+		return err
 	}
+
 	s.opened = false
 	s.shards = nil
 	s.databaseIndexes = nil