diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/runtime/plugins/sentry.client.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/runtime/plugins/sentry.client.ts
index 6d03b3cd9625..c27f6de11e05 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/runtime/plugins/sentry.client.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/runtime/plugins/sentry.client.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { getClient, GLOBAL_OBJ } from '@sentry/core';
-import { browserTracingIntegration, vueIntegration } from '@sentry/vue';
+import { getClient, GLOBAL_OBJ, setRouteProvider } from '@sentry/core';
+import { browserTracingIntegration, createVueRouteProvider, vueIntegration } from '@sentry/vue';
 import { defineNuxtPlugin, isNuxtError } from 'nuxt/app';
 import type { GlobalObjWithIntegrationOptions } from '../../client/vueIntegration';
 import { reportNuxtError } from '../utils';
@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ export default defineNuxtPlugin({
   name: 'sentry-client-integrations',
   dependsOn: ['sentry-client-config'],
   async setup(nuxtApp) {
+    // Registered outside the tracing guard, because route parameterization should not depend on
+    // tracing: anything that needs a route name (bfcache metrics, web vitals) can resolve one even
+    // when tracing is tree-shaken away. Nuxt installs the router before its plugins run, so unlike
+    // `@sentry/vue` this can read it straight off `nuxtApp`.
+    const client = getClient();
+    if (client && '$router' in nuxtApp) {
+      setRouteProvider(
+        createVueRouteProvider(() => nuxtApp.$router),
+        client,
+      );
+    }
+
     // This evaluates to true unless __SENTRY_TRACING__ is text-replaced with "false", in which case everything inside
     // will get tree-shaken away
     if (typeof __SENTRY_TRACING__ === 'undefined' || __SENTRY_TRACING__) {