diff --git a/ibis/backends/bigquery/__init__.py b/ibis/backends/bigquery/__init__.py
index 1cc1359147bc..e291bdbd83b5 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/bigquery/__init__.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/bigquery/__init__.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import ibis
 import ibis.backends.sql.compilers as sc
 import ibis.common.exceptions as com
+import ibis.expr.datatypes as dt
 import ibis.expr.operations as ops
 import ibis.expr.schema as sch
 import ibis.expr.types as ir
@@ -167,6 +168,17 @@ def _postprocess_arrow(
     return table_or_batch.rename_columns(names)
 
 
+def _microsecond_timestamp(dtype: dt.DataType) -> dt.DataType:
+    """Give a timestamp without a scale BigQuery's microsecond precision.
+
+    BigQuery stores DATETIME and TIMESTAMP values in microseconds, but most
+    ibis timestamps carry no scale, and polars maps those to nanoseconds.
+    """
+    if dtype.is_timestamp() and dtype.scale is None:
+        return dtype.copy(scale=6)
+    return dtype
+
+
 class Backend(
     SupportsTempTables, SQLBackend, CanCreateDatabase, DirectPyArrowExampleLoader
 ):
@@ -995,6 +1007,34 @@ def to_pyarrow(
         table = _postprocess_arrow(table, list(schema.names))
         return expr.__pyarrow_result__(table, schema=schema)
 
+    def to_polars(
+        self,
+        expr: ir.Expr,
+        /,
+        *,
+        params: Mapping[ir.Scalar, Any] | None = None,
+        limit: int | str | None = None,
+        **kwargs: Any,
+    ) -> pl.DataFrame:
+        import polars as pl
+
+        from ibis.formats.polars import PolarsData
+
+        table = self.to_pyarrow(expr.as_table(), params=params, limit=limit, **kwargs)
+        df = pl.from_arrow(table)
+        if isinstance(expr, ir.Table):
+            schema = expr.schema()
+            return PolarsData.convert_table(
+                df,
+                sch.Schema(
+                    {name: _microsecond_timestamp(t) for name, t in schema.items()}
+                ),
+            )
+        elif isinstance(expr, ir.Column):
+            return PolarsData.convert_column(df, _microsecond_timestamp(expr.type()))
+        else:
+            return PolarsData.convert_scalar(df, _microsecond_timestamp(expr.type()))
+
     def to_pyarrow_batches(
         self,
         expr: ir.Expr,
diff --git a/ibis/backends/bigquery/tests/unit/test_client.py b/ibis/backends/bigquery/tests/unit/test_client.py
index a9bc04d2c31c..0c4a711ee314 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/bigquery/tests/unit/test_client.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/bigquery/tests/unit/test_client.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 import pytest
 import sqlglot as sg
 
-from ibis.backends.bigquery import _force_quote_table, client
+import ibis
+from ibis.backends.bigquery import Backend, _force_quote_table, client
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -55,3 +56,37 @@ def test_force_quoting(bq_path_str, expected):
     table = _force_quote_table(table)
 
     assert table.sql("bigquery") == expected
+
+
+def test_to_polars_keeps_microsecond_timestamps(monkeypatch):
+    import datetime
+
+    pa = pytest.importorskip("pyarrow")
+    pl = pytest.importorskip("polars")
+
+    value = datetime.datetime(2025, 1, 1, 12, 34, 56, 123456)
+    arrow = pa.table(
+        {
+            "ts": pa.array(
+                [value.replace(tzinfo=datetime.UTC)], pa.timestamp("us", "UTC")
+            ),
+            "naive": pa.array([value], pa.timestamp("us")),
+        }
+    )
+    con = Backend()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(con, "to_pyarrow", lambda *_, **__: arrow)
+
+    t = ibis.table({"ts": "timestamp('UTC')", "naive": "timestamp"}, name="t")
+
+    df = con.to_polars(t)
+    assert df.schema == pl.Schema(
+        {"ts": pl.Datetime("us", "UTC"), "naive": pl.Datetime("us")}
+    )
+    assert df["naive"][0] == value
+
+    def one_column(expr, *_, **__):
+        return pa.table({expr.as_table().columns[0]: arrow["naive"]})
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(con, "to_pyarrow", one_column)
+    assert con.to_polars(t.naive).dtype == pl.Datetime("us")
+    assert con.to_polars(t.naive.max()) == value