diff --git a/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/Bucket.java b/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/Bucket.java
index 44577278a3ca..b862bfa09d72 100644
--- a/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/Bucket.java
+++ b/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/Bucket.java
@@ -236,6 +236,12 @@ private BucketString(int numBuckets) {
 
     @Override
     public int hash(CharSequence value) {
+      for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) {
+        if (Character.isSurrogate(value.charAt(i))) {
+          // TODO remove the fallback to this (slower) code path once https://github.com/google/guava/issues/5648 is fixed
+          return MURMUR3.hashBytes(value.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)).asInt();
+        }
+      }
       return MURMUR3.hashString(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).asInt();
     }
 
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/TestBucketing.java b/api/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/TestBucketing.java
index 9aeb5239bf40..65aecb02eaea 100644
--- a/api/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/TestBucketing.java
+++ b/api/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/transforms/TestBucketing.java
@@ -215,6 +215,25 @@ public void testString() {
         hashBytes(asBytes), bucketFunc.hash(string));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testStringWithSurrogatePair() {
+    String string = "string with a surrogate pair: 💰";
+    Assert.assertNotEquals("string has no surrogate pairs", string.length(), string.codePoints().count());
+    byte[] asBytes = string.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+    Bucket<CharSequence> bucketFunc = Bucket.get(Types.StringType.get(), 100);
+
+    Assert.assertEquals("String hash should match hash of UTF-8 bytes",
+        hashBytes(asBytes), bucketFunc.hash(string));
+
+    Assert.assertNotEquals(
+        "It looks like Guava has been updated and now contains a fix for " +
+            "https://github.com/google/guava/issues/5648. Please resolve the TODO in BucketString.hash " +
+            "and remove this assertion",
+        hashBytes(asBytes),
+        MURMUR3.hashString(string, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).asInt());
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testUtf8() {
     Utf8 utf8 = new Utf8("string to test murmur3 hash");