diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 518e2ee919cef..5386046e92039 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1951,6 +1951,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools 0.14.0",
  "log",
  "object_store",
+ "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b9d8b1a69ef61..54c211edb1bae 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ log = "^0.4"
 num-traits = { version = "0.2" }
 object_store = { version = "0.12.4", default-features = false }
 parking_lot = "0.12"
+percent-encoding = "2.3"
 parquet = { version = "57.1.0", default-features = false, features = [
     "arrow",
     "async",
diff --git a/datafusion/catalog-listing/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/catalog-listing/Cargo.toml
index be1374b371485..a32045c7586ca 100644
--- a/datafusion/catalog-listing/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/catalog-listing/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ futures = { workspace = true }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
 object_store = { workspace = true }
+percent-encoding = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 datafusion-datasource-parquet = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/datafusion/catalog-listing/src/helpers.rs b/datafusion/catalog-listing/src/helpers.rs
index ea016015cebd3..752b9945a0691 100644
--- a/datafusion/catalog-listing/src/helpers.rs
+++ b/datafusion/catalog-listing/src/helpers.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ use datafusion_expr::{Expr, Volatility};
 use datafusion_physical_expr::create_physical_expr;
 use object_store::path::Path;
 use object_store::{ObjectMeta, ObjectStore};
+use percent_encoding::percent_decode_str;
 
 /// Check whether the given expression can be resolved using only the columns `col_names`.
 /// This means that if this function returns true:
@@ -417,12 +418,15 @@ pub async fn pruned_partition_list<'a>(
 }
 
 /// Extract the partition values for the given `file_path` (in the given `table_path`)
-/// associated to the partitions defined by `table_partition_cols`
+/// associated to the partitions defined by `table_partition_cols`.
+///
+/// Partition values are URL-decoded, since object stores like S3 encode special
+/// characters (e.g., `/` becomes `%2F`) in path segments.
 pub fn parse_partitions_for_path<'a, I>(
     table_path: &ListingTableUrl,
     file_path: &'a Path,
     table_partition_cols: I,
-) -> Option<Vec<&'a str>>
+) -> Option<Vec<String>>
 where
     I: IntoIterator<Item = &'a str>,
 {
@@ -431,7 +435,10 @@ where
     let mut part_values = vec![];
     for (part, expected_partition) in subpath.zip(table_partition_cols) {
         match part.split_once('=') {
-            Some((name, val)) if name == expected_partition => part_values.push(val),
+            Some((name, val)) if name == expected_partition => {
+                let decoded = percent_decode_str(val).decode_utf8().ok()?;
+                part_values.push(decoded.into_owned());
+            }
             _ => {
                 debug!(
                     "Ignoring file: file_path='{file_path}', table_path='{table_path}', part='{part}', partition_col='{expected_partition}'",
@@ -507,7 +514,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn test_parse_partitions_for_path() {
         assert_eq!(
-            Some(vec![]),
+            Some(vec![] as Vec<String>),
             parse_partitions_for_path(
                 &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
                 &Path::from("bucket/mytable/file.csv"),
@@ -531,15 +538,25 @@ mod tests {
             )
         );
         assert_eq!(
-            Some(vec!["v1"]),
+            Some(vec!["v1".to_string()]),
             parse_partitions_for_path(
                 &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
                 &Path::from("bucket/mytable/mypartition=v1/file.csv"),
                 vec!["mypartition"]
             )
         );
+        // URL-encoded partition values should be decoded
+        // Use Path::parse to avoid double-encoding (Path::from encodes % as %25)
         assert_eq!(
-            Some(vec!["v1"]),
+            Some(vec!["v/1".to_string()]),
+            parse_partitions_for_path(
+                &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
+                &Path::parse("bucket/mytable/mypartition=v%2F1/file.csv").unwrap(),
+                vec!["mypartition"]
+            )
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            Some(vec!["v1".to_string()]),
             parse_partitions_for_path(
                 &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable/").unwrap(),
                 &Path::from("bucket/mytable/mypartition=v1/file.csv"),
@@ -556,7 +573,7 @@ mod tests {
             )
         );
         assert_eq!(
-            Some(vec!["v1", "v2"]),
+            Some(vec!["v1".to_string(), "v2".to_string()]),
             parse_partitions_for_path(
                 &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
                 &Path::from("bucket/mytable/mypartition=v1/otherpartition=v2/file.csv"),
@@ -564,13 +581,53 @@ mod tests {
             )
         );
         assert_eq!(
-            Some(vec!["v1"]),
+            Some(vec!["v1".to_string()]),
             parse_partitions_for_path(
                 &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
                 &Path::from("bucket/mytable/mypartition=v1/otherpartition=v2/file.csv"),
                 vec!["mypartition"]
             )
         );
+        assert_eq!(
+            Some(vec!["John Doe".to_string()]),
+            parse_partitions_for_path(
+                &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
+                &Path::parse("bucket/mytable/name=John%20Doe/file.csv").unwrap(),
+                vec!["name"]
+            )
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            Some(vec!["a/b".to_string(), "c d".to_string()]),
+            parse_partitions_for_path(
+                &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
+                &Path::parse("bucket/mytable/p1=a%2Fb/p2=c%20d/file.csv").unwrap(),
+                vec!["p1", "p2"]
+            )
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            Some(vec!["Müller".to_string()]),
+            parse_partitions_for_path(
+                &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
+                &Path::parse("bucket/mytable/name=M%C3%BCller/file.csv").unwrap(),
+                vec!["name"]
+            )
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            Some(vec!["invalid%XX".to_string()]),
+            parse_partitions_for_path(
+                &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
+                &Path::parse("bucket/mytable/p1=invalid%XX/file.csv").unwrap(),
+                vec!["p1"]
+            )
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            None,
+            parse_partitions_for_path(
+                &ListingTableUrl::parse("file:///bucket/mytable").unwrap(),
+                &Path::parse("bucket/mytable/p1=%FF/file.csv").unwrap(),
+                vec!["p1"]
+            )
+        );
     }
 
     #[test]