diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/PartitionsTable.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/PartitionsTable.java
index 09c6e7893b7e..ce92ca90b90e 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/PartitionsTable.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/PartitionsTable.java
@@ -87,10 +87,15 @@ public class PartitionsTable extends BaseMetadataTable {
                 Types.TimestampType.withZone(),
                 "Commit time of snapshot that last updated this partition"),
             Types.NestedField.optional(
-                10,
-                "last_updated_snapshot_id",
-                Types.LongType.get(),
-                "Id of snapshot that last updated this partition"));
+                    10,
+                    "last_updated_snapshot_id",
+                    Types.LongType.get(),
+                    "Id of snapshot that last updated this partition"),
+            Types.NestedField.required(
+                    12,
+                    "total_delete_file_size_in_bytes",
+                    Types.LongType.get(),
+                    "Total size in bytes of delete files"));
     this.unpartitionedTable = Partitioning.partitionType(table).fields().isEmpty();
   }
 
@@ -111,7 +116,8 @@ public Schema schema() {
           "equality_delete_record_count",
           "equality_delete_file_count",
           "last_updated_at",
-          "last_updated_snapshot_id");
+          "last_updated_snapshot_id",
+          "total_delete_file_size_in_bytes");
     }
     return schema;
   }
@@ -163,7 +169,9 @@ private static StaticDataTask.Row convertPartition(Partition partition) {
         partition.eqDeleteRecordCount,
         partition.eqDeleteFileCount,
         partition.lastUpdatedAt,
-        partition.lastUpdatedSnapshotId);
+        partition.lastUpdatedSnapshotId,
+        partition.deleteFileSizeInBytes);
+
   }
 
   private static Iterable<Partition> partitions(Table table, StaticTableScan scan) {
@@ -281,6 +289,7 @@ static class Partition {
     private int eqDeleteFileCount;
     private Long lastUpdatedAt;
     private Long lastUpdatedSnapshotId;
+    private long deleteFileSizeInBytes;
 
     Partition(StructLike key, Types.StructType keyType) {
       this.partitionData = toPartitionData(key, keyType);
@@ -314,10 +323,12 @@ void update(ContentFile<?> file, Snapshot snapshot) {
         case POSITION_DELETES:
           this.posDeleteRecordCount += file.recordCount();
           this.posDeleteFileCount += 1;
+          this.deleteFileSizeInBytes += file.fileSizeInBytes();
           break;
         case EQUALITY_DELETES:
           this.eqDeleteRecordCount += file.recordCount();
           this.eqDeleteFileCount += 1;
+          this.deleteFileSizeInBytes += file.fileSizeInBytes();
           break;
         default:
           throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/TestMetadataTableScans.java b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/TestMetadataTableScans.java
index 4d2971c7f12a..f0aafd3d1221 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/TestMetadataTableScans.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/TestMetadataTableScans.java
@@ -1195,6 +1195,52 @@ public void testPartitionsTableScanWithPlanExecutor() {
         .isGreaterThan(0);
   }
 
+  @TestTemplate
+  public void testPartitionsTableScanWithDeleteFileSize() throws java.io.IOException {
+    assumeThat(formatVersion).as("Position deletes are not supported by V1 Tables").isNotEqualTo(1);
+    preparePartitionedTable();
+
+    Table partitionsTable = new PartitionsTable(table);
+    TableScan scan = partitionsTable.newScan().select("partition.data_bucket", "total_delete_file_size_in_bytes");
+
+    List<StructLike> records = Lists.newArrayList();
+    try (CloseableIterable<FileScanTask> tasks = scan.planFiles()) {
+      for (FileScanTask task : tasks) {
+        // PartitionsTable is a StaticTable, so the task is a StaticDataTask
+        StaticDataTask dataTask = (StaticDataTask) task.asDataTask();
+        try (CloseableIterable<StructLike> rows = dataTask.rows()) {
+          rows.forEach(records::add);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    // The returned records are StructLike, and we need to extract fields by position
+    // based on the projection.
+    // Projection is: "partition.data_bucket", "total_delete_file_size_in_bytes"
+    // Resulting schema has two top-level fields.
+    // Field 0: partition (struct with one field, data_bucket)
+    // Field 1: total_delete_file_size_in_bytes (long)
+
+    records.sort(Comparator.comparing(r -> r.get(0, StructLike.class).get(0, Integer.class)));
+
+    assertThat(records).hasSize(4);
+
+    // The preparePartitionedTable() method adds one delete file to each of the 4 partitions.
+    // Each of those delete files (fileADeletes, fileBDeletes, FILE_C2_DELETES, FILE_D2_DELETES)
+    // is created with a size of 10 bytes in the test base class.
+    long expectedDeleteFileSize = 10L;
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
+      StructLike record = records.get(i);
+      StructLike partition = record.get(0, StructLike.class);
+      Integer partitionValue = partition.get(0, Integer.class);
+      Long deleteFileSize = record.get(1, Long.class);
+
+      assertThat(partitionValue).isEqualTo(i);
+      assertThat(deleteFileSize).isEqualTo(expectedDeleteFileSize);
+    }
+  }
+
   @TestTemplate
   public void testAllManifestsTableSnapshotGt() {
     // Snapshots 1,2,3,4