diff --git a/litellm/proxy/common_utils/scheduled_job_stagger.py b/litellm/proxy/common_utils/scheduled_job_stagger.py
index e48e9686f13..7f2816fd3cb 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/common_utils/scheduled_job_stagger.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/common_utils/scheduled_job_stagger.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import hashlib
 import os
 import socket
 from collections.abc import Callable, Mapping, Sequence
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from types import MappingProxyType
 from typing import Final, Protocol
 
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@ class _OffsetTrigger:
         self.offset = offset
 
     def get_next_fire_time(self, previous_fire_time: datetime | None, now: datetime) -> datetime | None:
-        shifted_previous: Final = None if previous_fire_time is None else previous_fire_time - self.offset
-        next_fire_time: Final = self.base.get_next_fire_time(shifted_previous, now - self.offset)
-        return None if next_fire_time is None else next_fire_time + self.offset
+        shifted_previous: Final = None if previous_fire_time is None else _shift(previous_fire_time, -self.offset)
+        next_fire_time: Final = self.base.get_next_fire_time(shifted_previous, _shift(now, -self.offset))
+        return None if next_fire_time is None else _shift(next_fire_time, self.offset)
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
         return f"{self.base}[+{int(self.offset.total_seconds())}s]"
@@ -137,6 +137,17 @@ class _OffsetTrigger:
 BaseTrigger.register(_OffsetTrigger)
 
 
+def _shift(moment: datetime, delta: timedelta) -> datetime:
+    """
+    ``moment`` moved by ``delta`` of elapsed time, back in its own zone.
+
+    Plain ``moment + delta`` is wall-clock arithmetic that drops ``fold``: inside a DST fall-back
+    hour it lands an hour early, the next fire never gets past ``now``, and APScheduler keeps
+    appending missed run times until the process runs out of memory.
+    """
+    return (moment.astimezone(timezone.utc) + delta).astimezone(moment.tzinfo)
+
+
 def parse_stagger_settings(general_settings: Mapping[str, object]) -> ScheduledJobStaggerSettings:
     raw: Final = general_settings.get(GENERAL_SETTINGS_KEY)
     if raw is None:
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_scheduled_job_stagger.py b/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_scheduled_job_stagger.py
index 3eabfc5c840..e180cf57224 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_scheduled_job_stagger.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_scheduled_job_stagger.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from types import SimpleNamespace
+from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
 
 import pytest
 from apscheduler.executors.asyncio import AsyncIOExecutor
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ from litellm.proxy.common_utils.scheduled_job_stagger import (
     stagger_trigger,
 )
 
+PARIS = ZoneInfo("Europe/Paris")
 OPERATOR_CRON_JOB_ID = "spend_log_cleanup_job"
 SHARED_INTERVAL_JOB_IDS = ("periodic_reload_job", "add_deployment_job")
 
@@ -250,6 +252,41 @@ def test_a_job_registered_after_startup_still_gets_its_offset():
     assert _fire_times(shifted, start, 2)[1] - _fire_times(shifted, start, 1)[0] == timedelta(seconds=3600)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "start",
+    [
+        datetime(2026, 10, 25, 2, 30, fold=1, tzinfo=PARIS),  # second pass of the fall-back hour
+        datetime(2026, 3, 29, 1, 58, tzinfo=PARIS),  # just before the spring-forward gap
+    ],
+    ids=["fall-back", "spring-forward"],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "base",
+    [
+        IntervalTrigger(seconds=60, start_date=datetime(2026, 1, 1, tzinfo=PARIS), timezone=PARIS),
+        CronTrigger(minute="*", timezone=PARIS),
+    ],
+    ids=["interval", "cron"],
+)
+def test_a_staggered_job_keeps_firing_once_a_minute_across_a_dst_change(base, start):
+    """
+    Inside the repeated fall-back hour the shifted fire used to land an hour before ``now``,
+    so APScheduler never caught up and grew its list of missed run times without bound
+    """
+    shifted = stagger_trigger(
+        job_id="periodic_reload_job",
+        trigger=base,
+        period_seconds=60,
+        settings=_settings(offsets={"periodic_reload_job": 30}),
+        identity="pod-a:1",
+    )
+
+    fires = _fire_times(shifted, start, 4)
+
+    assert 0 < fires[0].timestamp() - start.timestamp() <= 60
+    assert [later.timestamp() - earlier.timestamp() for earlier, later in itertools.pairwise(fires)] == [60] * 3
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "raw, expected_window",
     [