diff --git a/chart/templates/_helpers.yaml b/chart/templates/_helpers.yaml
index f76d3f0aac6fd..042ac491a9e42 100644
--- a/chart/templates/_helpers.yaml
+++ b/chart/templates/_helpers.yaml
@@ -1147,3 +1147,18 @@ capabilities:
             app: keda-operator
   {{- end }}
 {{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Convert a Kubernetes CPU limit (e.g., "500m", "1.5", "2", "750m") into an integer number of CPU cores.
+*/}}
+{{- define "cpu_count" -}}
+  {{- $v := toString . -}}
+    {{- if hasSuffix "m" $v -}}
+      {{- /* millicores path: e.g. 500m, 1500m */ -}}
+      {{- $m := float64 (trimSuffix "m" $v) -}}
+      {{- int (ceil (divf $m 1000)) -}}
+    {{- else -}}
+      {{- /* plain cores: e.g. 0.5, 1, 1.5 */ -}}
+      {{- int (ceil (float64 $v)) -}}
+    {{- end -}}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/chart/values.yaml b/chart/values.yaml
index b4d8d8f15619c..128700c58831d 100644
--- a/chart/values.yaml
+++ b/chart/values.yaml
@@ -3011,6 +3011,7 @@ config:
   celery:
     flower_url_prefix: '{{ ternary "" .Values.ingress.flower.path (eq .Values.ingress.flower.path "/") }}'
     worker_concurrency: 16
+    sync_parallelism: '{{ include "cpu_count" (((.Values.scheduler).resources).limits).cpu }}'
   scheduler:
     standalone_dag_processor: '{{ ternary "True" "False" (or (semverCompare ">=3.0.0" .Values.airflowVersion) (.Values.dagProcessor.enabled | default false)) }}'
     # statsd params included for Airflow 1.10 backward compatibility; moved to [metrics] in 2.0
diff --git a/helm-tests/tests/helm_tests/airflow_aux/test_configmap.py b/helm-tests/tests/helm_tests/airflow_aux/test_configmap.py
index 42e302be345fb..0fc78be86040e 100644
--- a/helm-tests/tests/helm_tests/airflow_aux/test_configmap.py
+++ b/helm-tests/tests/helm_tests/airflow_aux/test_configmap.py
@@ -301,3 +301,30 @@ def test_execution_api_server_url(
             assert "execution_api_server_url" not in config, (
                 "execution_api_server_url should not be set for Airflow 2.x versions"
             )
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        ("scheduler_cpu_limit", "expected_sync_parallelism"),
+        [
+            ("1m", "1"),
+            ("1000m", "1"),
+            ("1001m", "2"),
+            ("0.1", "1"),
+            ("1", "1"),
+            ("1.01", "2"),
+            (None, 0),
+            (0, 0),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_expected_celery_sync_parallelism(self, scheduler_cpu_limit, expected_sync_parallelism):
+        scheduler_resources_cpu_limit = {}
+        if scheduler_cpu_limit is not None:
+            scheduler_resources_cpu_limit = {
+                "scheduler": {"resources": {"limits": {"cpu": scheduler_cpu_limit}}}
+            }
+
+        configmap = render_chart(
+            values=scheduler_resources_cpu_limit,
+            show_only=["templates/configmaps/configmap.yaml"],
+        )
+        config = jmespath.search('data."airflow.cfg"', configmap[0])
+        assert f"\nsync_parallelism = {expected_sync_parallelism}\n" in config