diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/MixedTimeseries/transformProps.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/MixedTimeseries/transformProps.ts
index 71dc91183a9..33df597f923 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/MixedTimeseries/transformProps.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/MixedTimeseries/transformProps.ts
@@ -258,7 +258,15 @@ export default function transformProps(
 
   const dataTypes = getColtypesMapping(queriesData[0]);
   const xAxisDataType = dataTypes?.[xAxisLabel] ?? dataTypes?.[xAxisOrig];
-  const xAxisType = getAxisType(stack, xAxisForceCategorical, xAxisDataType);
+  const xAxisType = getAxisType(
+    stack,
+    xAxisForceCategorical,
+    xAxisDataType,
+    seriesType === EchartsTimeseriesSeriesType.Bar ||
+      seriesTypeB === EchartsTimeseriesSeriesType.Bar
+      ? EchartsTimeseriesSeriesType.Bar
+      : seriesType,
+  );
 
   const [rawSeriesA, sortedTotalValuesA] = extractSeries(rebasedDataA, {
     fillNeighborValue: stack ? 0 : undefined,
diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/Timeseries/transformProps.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/Timeseries/transformProps.ts
index 114c374d659..8bf0909489a 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/Timeseries/transformProps.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/Timeseries/transformProps.ts
@@ -314,7 +314,12 @@ export default function transformProps(
 
   const isMultiSeries = groupBy.length || metrics?.length > 1;
   const xAxisDataType = dataTypes?.[xAxisLabel] ?? dataTypes?.[xAxisOrig];
-  const xAxisType = getAxisType(stack, xAxisForceCategorical, xAxisDataType);
+  const xAxisType = getAxisType(
+    stack,
+    xAxisForceCategorical,
+    xAxisDataType,
+    seriesType,
+  );
 
   const [rawSeries, sortedTotalValues, minPositiveValue] = extractSeries(
     rebasedData,
diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/utils/series.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/utils/series.ts
index 8e243167474..a8c80303ced 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/utils/series.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/utils/series.ts
@@ -934,6 +934,7 @@ export function getAxisType(
   stack: StackType,
   forceCategorical?: boolean,
   dataType?: GenericDataType,
+  seriesType?: EchartsTimeseriesSeriesType,
 ): AxisType {
   if (forceCategorical) {
     return AxisType.Category;
@@ -941,7 +942,11 @@ export function getAxisType(
   if (dataType === GenericDataType.Temporal) {
     return AxisType.Time;
   }
-  if (dataType === GenericDataType.Numeric && !stack) {
+  if (
+    dataType === GenericDataType.Numeric &&
+    !stack &&
+    seriesType !== EchartsTimeseriesSeriesType.Bar
+  ) {
     return AxisType.Value;
   }
   return AxisType.Category;
diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/test/utils/series.test.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/test/utils/series.test.ts
index f50b1933d5d..5bf971229e7 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/test/utils/series.test.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/test/utils/series.test.ts
@@ -1400,6 +1400,25 @@ test('getAxisType with forced categorical', () => {
   );
 });
 
+test('getAxisType treats numeric as category for bar charts', () => {
+  expect(
+    getAxisType(
+      false,
+      false,
+      GenericDataType.Numeric,
+      EchartsTimeseriesSeriesType.Bar,
+    ),
+  ).toEqual(AxisType.Category);
+  expect(
+    getAxisType(
+      false,
+      false,
+      GenericDataType.Numeric,
+      EchartsTimeseriesSeriesType.Line,
+    ),
+  ).toEqual(AxisType.Value);
+});
+
 test('getMinAndMaxFromBounds returns empty object when not truncating', () => {
   expect(
     getMinAndMaxFromBounds(