diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-09-10-28-30.gh-issue-151126.DKa6Sl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-09-10-28-30.gh-issue-151126.DKa6Sl.rst
index 3f699a50d7a42b..4918d6f7e348de 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-09-10-28-30.gh-issue-151126.DKa6Sl.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-06-09-10-28-30.gh-issue-151126.DKa6Sl.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 Fix a crash, when there's no memory left on a device,
-which happened in code compilation.
-Now it raises a proper :exc:`MemoryError`.
+which happened in:
+- Code compilation
+- :mod:`zoneinfo` caching
+
+Now these places raise a proper :exc:`MemoryError`.
diff --git a/Modules/_zoneinfo.c b/Modules/_zoneinfo.c
index eaffd020ed97c0..777b93fdf5460e 100644
--- a/Modules/_zoneinfo.c
+++ b/Modules/_zoneinfo.c
@@ -2353,6 +2353,7 @@ strong_cache_node_new(PyObject *key, PyObject *zone)
 {
     StrongCacheNode *node = PyMem_Malloc(sizeof(StrongCacheNode));
     if (node == NULL) {
+        PyErr_NoMemory();
         return NULL;
     }