diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-emscripten.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-emscripten.yml
index fd269df9eada24..ace5c111dc63bf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-emscripten.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-emscripten.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,20 @@ jobs:
   build-emscripten-reusable:
     name: 'build and test'
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    timeout-minutes: 60
+    # It seems to take about 20 minutes without the cache, broken down as follows:
+    # (All times recorded from one run chosen arbitrarily.)
+    #
+    #  0.5 install Emscripten (skipped by cache)
+    #  1.0 configure & build native python
+    #  0.5 build dependencies (skipped by cache)
+    #  3.0 configure Emscripten Python
+    #  1.5 build Emscripten Python
+    #  0.7 build Emscripten ports (skipped by cache)
+    # 14.0 Test
+    #
+    # So if we add time for a rerun of the entire test suite, we get to 34
+    # minutes. Adding an extra 5% gets us to 36.
+    timeout-minutes: 36
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       with: