diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
index 4630a7568818..0462132e0141 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -3211,6 +3211,20 @@ def errorbar(self, x, y, yerr=None, xerr=None,
 
         if not np.iterable(y):
             y = [y]
+        # The actual errorbar function works even if lengths of x and y
+        # dont matches with "ecolor" inorder to retain the same behavior
+        # the new change will only effect if lengths matches
+        if np.iterable(ecolor):
+            if len(ecolor) == len(x) and len(ecolor) == len(y):
+                # To get np.nan indices in both x and y lists
+                nan_indices = list(np.where(np.isnan(x))[
+                                   0]) + list(np.where(np.isnan(y))[0])
+                # To remove duplicates
+                nan_indices = list(set(nan_indices))
+                ecolor = np.array(ecolor)
+                # To delete colors corrresonding to np.nan in  x and y
+                ecolor = np.delete(ecolor, nan_indices)
+                ecolor = list(ecolor)
 
         if xerr is not None:
             if not np.iterable(xerr):