diff --git a/airflow/sensors/time_sensor.py b/airflow/sensors/time_sensor.py
index 4a7f2e9d48d74d..cc07323ca1da9b 100644
--- a/airflow/sensors/time_sensor.py
+++ b/airflow/sensors/time_sensor.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def __init__(self, *, target_time, **kwargs):
         self.target_time = target_time
 
         aware_time = timezone.coerce_datetime(
-            datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.datetime.today(), self.target_time)
+            datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.datetime.today(), self.target_time, self.dag.timezone)
         )
 
         self.target_datetime = timezone.convert_to_utc(aware_time)
diff --git a/tests/sensors/test_time_sensor.py b/tests/sensors/test_time_sensor.py
index 2ccfdd2c42f298..935d1cb1281765 100644
--- a/tests/sensors/test_time_sensor.py
+++ b/tests/sensors/test_time_sensor.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import pendulum
 import pytest
 import time_machine
+from pendulum.tz.timezone import UTC
 
 from airflow.exceptions import TaskDeferred
 from airflow.models.dag import DAG
@@ -73,3 +74,15 @@ def test_target_time_aware(self):
             op = TimeSensorAsync(task_id="test", target_time=aware_time)
             assert hasattr(op.target_datetime.tzinfo, "offset")
             assert op.target_datetime.tzinfo.offset == 0
+
+    def test_target_time_naive_dag_timezone(self):
+        """
+        Tests that naive target_time gets converted correctly using the DAG's timezone.
+        """
+        with DAG(
+            "test_target_time_naive_dag_timezone",
+            start_date=pendulum.datetime(2020, 1, 1, 0, 0, tz=DEFAULT_TIMEZONE),
+        ):
+            op = TimeSensorAsync(task_id="test", target_time=pendulum.time(9, 0))
+            assert op.target_datetime.time() == pendulum.time(1, 0)
+            assert op.target_datetime.tzinfo == UTC