diff --git a/providers/apache/iceberg/tests/unit/apache/iceberg/triggers/test_iceberg.py b/providers/apache/iceberg/tests/unit/apache/iceberg/triggers/test_iceberg.py
index 1f44dac375cb8..15877d3d9d0b2 100644
--- a/providers/apache/iceberg/tests/unit/apache/iceberg/triggers/test_iceberg.py
+++ b/providers/apache/iceberg/tests/unit/apache/iceberg/triggers/test_iceberg.py
@@ -135,7 +135,9 @@ async def test_emits_once_per_new_snapshot():
     """Each commit produces exactly one event carrying the snapshot it replaced."""
     with patch(LOAD_TABLE, side_effect=[_table_at(111), _table_at(222), _table_at(222), _table_at(333)]):
         trigger = IcebergTableSnapshotTrigger(table="db.tbl", poll_interval=0.01, last_seen_snapshot_id=111)
-        payloads = await _collect(trigger, 2)
+        # Gathering 2 events takes 4 polling rounds, each with a real asyncio.to_thread call;
+        # the default 1s budget is too tight under CI thread-pool scheduling latency.
+        payloads = await _collect(trigger, 2, timeout=3.0)
 
     assert [(p["previous_snapshot_id"], p["snapshot_id"]) for p in payloads] == [(111, 222), (222, 333)]
 
@@ -190,7 +192,9 @@ async def test_persists_the_watermark_on_each_event():
     trigger.asset_state_store = store
 
     with patch(LOAD_TABLE, side_effect=[_table_at(111), _table_at(222), _table_at(222)]):
-        payloads = await _collect(trigger, 2)
+        # Gathering 2 events runs several real asyncio.to_thread calls (head lookup + store
+        # get/set); the default 1s budget is too tight under CI thread-pool scheduling latency.
+        payloads = await _collect(trigger, 2, timeout=3.0)
 
     assert [p["snapshot_id"] for p in payloads] == [111, 222]
     assert [c.args for c in store.set.call_args_list] == [("snapshot_id", 111), ("snapshot_id", 222)]