diff --git a/sqlglot/dialects/bigquery.py b/sqlglot/dialects/bigquery.py
index 75811f7ee1..06145416a2 100644
--- a/sqlglot/dialects/bigquery.py
+++ b/sqlglot/dialects/bigquery.py
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ class Tokenizer(tokens.Tokenizer):
             "GEOGRAPHY": TokenType.GEOGRAPHY,
             "FLOAT64": TokenType.DOUBLE,
             "INT64": TokenType.BIGINT,
+            "BYTES": TokenType.BINARY,
             "NOT DETERMINISTIC": TokenType.VOLATILE,
             "UNKNOWN": TokenType.NULL,
         }
@@ -261,6 +262,7 @@ class Generator(generator.Generator):
             **generator.Generator.TYPE_MAPPING,  # type: ignore
             exp.DataType.Type.BIGDECIMAL: "BIGNUMERIC",
             exp.DataType.Type.BIGINT: "INT64",
+            exp.DataType.Type.BINARY: "BYTES",
             exp.DataType.Type.BOOLEAN: "BOOL",
             exp.DataType.Type.CHAR: "STRING",
             exp.DataType.Type.DECIMAL: "NUMERIC",
@@ -274,6 +276,7 @@ class Generator(generator.Generator):
             exp.DataType.Type.TIMESTAMP: "DATETIME",
             exp.DataType.Type.TIMESTAMPTZ: "TIMESTAMP",
             exp.DataType.Type.TINYINT: "INT64",
+            exp.DataType.Type.VARBINARY: "BYTES",
             exp.DataType.Type.VARCHAR: "STRING",
             exp.DataType.Type.VARIANT: "ANY TYPE",
         }
diff --git a/tests/dialects/test_bigquery.py b/tests/dialects/test_bigquery.py
index 703b7dc0a1..7ac7346308 100644
--- a/tests/dialects/test_bigquery.py
+++ b/tests/dialects/test_bigquery.py
@@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ def test_bigquery(self):
                 "spark": "CAST(a AS LONG)",
             },
         )
+        self.validate_all(
+            "CAST(a AS BYTES)",
+            write={
+                "bigquery": "CAST(a AS BYTES)",
+                "duckdb": "CAST(a AS BLOB)",
+                "presto": "CAST(a AS VARBINARY)",
+                "hive": "CAST(a AS BINARY)",
+                "spark": "CAST(a AS BINARY)",
+            },
+        )
         self.validate_all(
             "CAST(a AS NUMERIC)",
             write={
diff --git a/tests/dialects/test_dialect.py b/tests/dialects/test_dialect.py
index bcbbfd66b1..f12273b95b 100644
--- a/tests/dialects/test_dialect.py
+++ b/tests/dialects/test_dialect.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def test_cast(self):
         self.validate_all(
             "CAST(a AS BINARY(4))",
             write={
-                "bigquery": "CAST(a AS BINARY)",
+                "bigquery": "CAST(a AS BYTES)",
                 "clickhouse": "CAST(a AS BINARY(4))",
                 "drill": "CAST(a AS VARBINARY(4))",
                 "duckdb": "CAST(a AS BLOB(4))",
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def test_cast(self):
         self.validate_all(
             "CAST(a AS VARBINARY(4))",
             write={
-                "bigquery": "CAST(a AS VARBINARY)",
+                "bigquery": "CAST(a AS BYTES)",
                 "clickhouse": "CAST(a AS VARBINARY(4))",
                 "duckdb": "CAST(a AS BLOB(4))",
                 "mysql": "CAST(a AS VARBINARY(4))",