Asymptotic particle states in four-dimensional celestial scattering amplitudes are labelled by their $SL(2,mathbb{C})$ Lorentz/conformal weights $(h,bar{h})$ rather than the usual energy-momentum four-vector. These boost eigenstates involve a superposition of all energies. As such, celestial gluon (or photon) scattering cannot obey the usual (energetically) soft theorems. In this paper we show that tree-level celestial gluon scattering, in theories with sufficiently soft UV behavior, instead obeys conformally soft theorems involving $h to 0$ or $bar{h} to 0$. Unlike the energetically soft theorem, the conformally soft theorem cannot be derived from low-energy effective field theory.
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