diff --git a/.changeset/thin-suns-fail.md b/.changeset/thin-suns-fail.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c497dd93546c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/thin-suns-fail.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@sveltejs/kit': patch
+---
+
+fix: correctly resolve `$app/state` on the server with Vite 5
diff --git a/packages/kit/src/exports/vite/index.js b/packages/kit/src/exports/vite/index.js
index 2c76a71f0026..0addaadc7fa3 100644
--- a/packages/kit/src/exports/vite/index.js
+++ b/packages/kit/src/exports/vite/index.js
@@ -306,7 +306,13 @@ async function kit({ svelte_config }) {
 						//    See https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/pull/9172
 						//    and https://vitest.dev/config/#deps-registernodeloader
 						'@sveltejs/kit'
-					]
+					],
+					resolve: {
+						// We need this so that importing $app/state correctly
+						// resolves to the default conditional export instead of
+						// the browser condition on the server.
+						conditions: ['module', 'node']
+					}
 				}
 			};