diff --git a/packages/react-aria-components/src/Tabs.tsx b/packages/react-aria-components/src/Tabs.tsx
index d2932620df5..c4cde0191c9 100644
--- a/packages/react-aria-components/src/Tabs.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-aria-components/src/Tabs.tsx
@@ -488,42 +488,52 @@ export const TabPanels = /*#__PURE__*/ createHideableComponent(function TabPanel
       );
     }
 
+    let raf: number | undefined;
     if (
       hasTransition.current &&
       selectedKeyRef.current != null &&
       selectedKeyRef.current !== state.selectedKey
     ) {
-      // Measure auto size.
-      el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', 'auto');
-      el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', 'auto');
-      let {width, height} = el.getBoundingClientRect();
-
-      if (
-        prevSize.current &&
-        (prevSize.current.width !== width || prevSize.current.height !== height)
-      ) {
-        // Revert to previous size.
-        el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', prevSize.current.width + 'px');
-        el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', prevSize.current.height + 'px');
-
-        // Force style re-calculation to trigger animations.
-        window.getComputedStyle(el).height;
-
-        // Animate to current pixel size.
-        el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', width + 'px');
-        el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', height + 'px');
-
-        // When animations complete, revert back to auto size.
-        Promise.all(el.getAnimations().map(a => a.finished))
-          .then(() => {
-            el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', 'auto');
-            el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', 'auto');
-          })
-          .catch(() => {});
-      }
+      // Wait until the next frame to measure, so that content which renders in a follow-up update
+      // (e.g. the TabList and TabPanel of a nested Tabs) is included. This runs before paint.
+      raf = requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+        // Measure auto size.
+        el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', 'auto');
+        el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', 'auto');
+        let {width, height} = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+
+        if (
+          prevSize.current &&
+          (prevSize.current.width !== width || prevSize.current.height !== height)
+        ) {
+          // Revert to previous size.
+          el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', prevSize.current.width + 'px');
+          el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', prevSize.current.height + 'px');
+
+          // Force style re-calculation to trigger animations.
+          window.getComputedStyle(el).height;
+
+          // Animate to current pixel size.
+          el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', width + 'px');
+          el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', height + 'px');
+
+          // When animations complete, revert back to auto size.
+          Promise.all(el.getAnimations().map(a => a.finished))
+            .then(() => {
+              el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-width', 'auto');
+              el.style.setProperty('--tab-panel-height', 'auto');
+            })
+            .catch(() => {});
+        }
+      });
     }
 
     selectedKeyRef.current = state.selectedKey;
+    return () => {
+      if (raf != null) {
+        cancelAnimationFrame(raf);
+      }
+    };
   }, [ref, state.selectedKey]);
 
   // Store previous size before DOM updates occur.
@@ -543,12 +553,20 @@ export const TabPanels = /*#__PURE__*/ createHideableComponent(function TabPanel
   let DOMProps = filterDOMProps(props, {labelable: true, global: true});
   delete DOMProps.id;
 
+  // Define the size variables on every TabPanels so that a nested TabPanels does not inherit
+  // the pixel values of an outer TabPanels while it is animating.
+  let style = {
+    '--tab-panel-width': 'auto',
+    '--tab-panel-height': 'auto',
+    ...props.style
+  };
+
   return (
     <dom.div
       render={props.render}
       {...DOMProps}
       ref={ref}
-      style={props.style}
+      style={style}
       className={props.className || 'react-aria-TabPanels'}>
       <Collection {...props} />
     </dom.div>
diff --git a/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx b/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx
index 55c7930d2ad..1c2322f2edb 100644
--- a/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-aria-components/stories/Tabs.stories.tsx
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {Orientation} from '@react-types/shared';
 import {OverlayArrow} from '../src/OverlayArrow';
 import React, {useState} from 'react';
 import {RouterProvider} from 'react-aria/private/utils/openLink';
-import {Tab, TabList, TabPanel, TabProps, Tabs} from '../src/Tabs';
+import {Tab, TabList, TabPanel, TabPanels, TabProps, Tabs} from '../src/Tabs';
 import {Tooltip, TooltipTrigger} from '../src/Tooltip';
 import './styles.css';
 
@@ -144,3 +144,53 @@ export const NestedTabs: TabsStory = () => (
     <TabPanel id="bar">Bar</TabPanel>
   </Tabs>
 );
+
+const animatedPanelsStyle = {
+  height: 'var(--tab-panel-height)',
+  transition: 'height 400ms',
+  overflow: 'clip',
+  background: 'rgba(106, 90, 205, 0.1)'
+};
+
+const InnerTabs = () => (
+  <Tabs>
+    <TabList aria-label="Inner tabs" style={{display: 'flex', gap: 8}}>
+      <CustomTab id="one">One</CustomTab>
+      <CustomTab id="two">Two</CustomTab>
+    </TabList>
+    <TabPanels style={animatedPanelsStyle}>
+      <TabPanel id="one">
+        <p>Senatus Populusque Romanus.</p>
+      </TabPanel>
+      <TabPanel id="two">
+        <p>Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris.</p>
+        <p>Italiam fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora.</p>
+        <p>Multum ille et terris iactatus et alto.</p>
+      </TabPanel>
+    </TabPanels>
+  </Tabs>
+);
+
+export const NestedTabsAnimated: TabsStory = () => (
+  <div style={{height: '300px', width: '300px'}}>
+    <Tabs>
+      <TabList aria-label="Outer tabs" style={{display: 'flex', gap: 8}}>
+        <CustomTab id="foo">Foo</CustomTab>
+        <CustomTab id="bar">Bar</CustomTab>
+        <CustomTab id="baz">Baz</CustomTab>
+      </TabList>
+      <TabPanels style={animatedPanelsStyle}>
+        <TabPanel id="foo">
+          <p>Alea jacta est.</p>
+        </TabPanel>
+        <TabPanel id="bar">
+          <InnerTabs />
+        </TabPanel>
+        <TabPanel id="baz">
+          <p>Veni, vidi, vici.</p>
+          <InnerTabs />
+        </TabPanel>
+      </TabPanels>
+    </Tabs>
+  </div>
+);
diff --git a/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.browser.test.tsx b/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.browser.test.tsx
index 8a778b0f008..2a1327f6307 100644
--- a/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.browser.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-aria-components/test/Tabs.browser.test.tsx
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@
  */
 
 import {expect, it} from 'vitest';
+import {page, userEvent} from 'vitest/browser';
 import React from 'react';
 import {render} from 'vitest-browser-react';
-import {Tab, TabList, TabPanel, Tabs} from '../src/Tabs';
+import {Tab, TabList, TabPanel, TabPanels, Tabs} from '../src/Tabs';
 import {User} from '@react-aria/test-utils';
 
 function TabsExample() {
@@ -47,3 +48,63 @@ it.each`
   await tester.triggerTab({tab: tabs[1]});
   expect(tester.getSelectedTab()).toBe(tabs[1]);
 });
+
+const panelsStyle = {
+  height: 'var(--tab-panel-height)',
+  transition: 'height 500ms linear',
+  overflow: 'clip'
+};
+
+function NestedTabsExample() {
+  return (
+    <Tabs>
+      <TabList aria-label="Outer">
+        <Tab id="general">General</Tab>
+        <Tab id="nested">Nested</Tab>
+      </TabList>
+      <TabPanels data-testid="outer" style={panelsStyle}>
+        <TabPanel id="general">
+          <div style={{height: 50}} />
+        </TabPanel>
+        <TabPanel id="nested">
+          <Tabs>
+            <TabList aria-label="Inner" style={{display: 'flex'}}>
+              <Tab id="one" style={{height: 30}}>
+                One
+              </Tab>
+              <Tab id="two" style={{height: 30}}>
+                Two
+              </Tab>
+            </TabList>
+            <TabPanels data-testid="inner" style={panelsStyle}>
+              <TabPanel id="one">
+                <div style={{height: 100}} />
+              </TabPanel>
+              <TabPanel id="two">
+                <div style={{height: 100}} />
+              </TabPanel>
+            </TabPanels>
+          </Tabs>
+        </TabPanel>
+      </TabPanels>
+    </Tabs>
+  );
+}
+
+it('animates TabPanels to the full size of a nested Tabs', async () => {
+  await render(<NestedTabsExample />);
+  let outer = document.querySelector('[data-testid=outer]') as HTMLElement;
+  expect(outer.getBoundingClientRect().height).toBe(50);
+
+  await userEvent.click(page.getByRole('tab', {name: 'Nested'}));
+  await new Promise(resolve => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(resolve)));
+
+  // Mid transition, the outer panels should be animating towards the nested TabList + TabPanel,
+  // and the nested panels should not inherit the outer panels' size.
+  let inner = document.querySelector('[data-testid=inner]') as HTMLElement;
+  expect(outer.style.getPropertyValue('--tab-panel-height')).toBe('130px');
+  expect(inner.getBoundingClientRect().height).toBe(100);
+
+  await Promise.all(outer.getAnimations().map(a => a.finished));
+  expect(outer.getBoundingClientRect().height).toBe(130);
+});