diff --git a/include/pybind11/pytypes.h b/include/pybind11/pytypes.h
index 88de78d024..e820417bd9 100644
--- a/include/pybind11/pytypes.h
+++ b/include/pybind11/pytypes.h
@@ -2032,7 +2032,13 @@ class sequence : public object {
         return object::operator[](std::forward<T>(o));
     }
     detail::sequence_iterator begin() const { return {*this, 0}; }
-    detail::sequence_iterator end() const { return {*this, PySequence_Size(m_ptr)}; }
+    detail::sequence_iterator end() const {
+        ssize_t result = PySequence_Size(m_ptr);
+        if (result == -1) {
+            throw error_already_set();
+        }
+        return {*this, result};
+    }
 };
 
 class list : public object {
diff --git a/tests/test_pytypes.cpp b/tests/test_pytypes.cpp
index b500eb7972..2764645466 100644
--- a/tests/test_pytypes.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_pytypes.cpp
@@ -461,6 +461,20 @@ TEST_SUBMODULE(pytypes, m) {
         return py::tuple();
     });
 
+    m.def("capi_sequence_end", [](const py::sequence &seq) {
+        py::detail::sequence_iterator end;
+        try {
+            end = seq.end();
+        } catch (const py::error_already_set &) {
+            throw;
+        }
+        if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
+            py::raise_from(PyExc_AssertionError, "sequence::end returned with a pending error");
+            throw py::error_already_set();
+        }
+        return end - seq.begin();
+    });
+
     m.def("accessor_assignment", []() {
         auto l = py::list(1);
         l[0] = 0;
diff --git a/tests/test_pytypes.py b/tests/test_pytypes.py
index 3c7b31e093..b633c1cde0 100644
--- a/tests/test_pytypes.py
+++ b/tests/test_pytypes.py
@@ -837,6 +837,49 @@ def test_cpp_iterators():
     assert m.passed_iterator(iter((-7, 3))) == -4
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("error_type", [RuntimeError, KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit])
+def test_capi_sequence_end_error(error_type):
+    error = error_type("sequence length failed")
+
+    class BadLength:
+        def __getitem__(self, index):
+            raise AssertionError("end must not retrieve items")
+
+        def __len__(self):
+            raise error
+
+    with pytest.raises(error_type) as excinfo:
+        m.capi_sequence_end(BadLength())
+    assert excinfo.value is error
+    assert "__len__" in [entry.name for entry in excinfo.traceback]
+
+
+def test_capi_sequence_end_negative_length():
+    class NegativeLength:
+        def __getitem__(self, index):
+            raise AssertionError("end must not retrieve items")
+
+        def __len__(self):
+            return -1  # noqa: PLE0303 - deliberately invalid length
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        m.capi_sequence_end(NegativeLength())
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("values", [[], [4, 7]])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("kind", [list, tuple, "custom"])
+def test_capi_sequence_end_valid(values, kind):
+    class CustomSequence:
+        def __getitem__(self, index):
+            return values[index]
+
+        def __len__(self):
+            return len(values)
+
+    sequence = CustomSequence() if kind == "custom" else kind(values)
+    assert m.capi_sequence_end(sequence) == len(values)
+
+
 def test_implementation_details():
     lst = [39, 43, 92, 49, 22, 29, 93, 98, 26, 57, 8]
     tup = tuple(lst)