diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py
index fcbe0eae0b..2be1a61cee 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import os
 import shutil
 import tempfile
 
+from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFileNotFound, AnsibleAction, AnsibleActionFail
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
             new_task.args.pop('variable_end_string', None)
             new_task.args.pop('trim_blocks', None)
             try:
-                tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+                tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(dir=C.DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP)
                 result_file = os.path.join(tempdir, os.path.basename(source))
                 with open(result_file, 'wb') as f:
                     f.write(to_bytes(resultant, errors='surrogate_or_strict'))