diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/config/types.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/config/types.ts
index 77b7316ed0ca..c9d6b4de9a71 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/config/types.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/config/types.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ export type NextConfigObject = {
   // the output directory for the built app (defaults to ".next")
   distDir: string;
   sentry?: {
+    userConfigDir?: string;
     disableServerWebpackPlugin?: boolean;
     disableClientWebpackPlugin?: boolean;
   };
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts
index 98bd56b66a57..89fa1500f2b5 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/config/webpack.ts
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export function constructWebpackConfigFunction(
     // will call the callback which will call `f` which will call `x.y`... and on and on. Theoretically this could also
     // be fixed by using `bind`, but this is way simpler.)
     const origEntryProperty = newConfig.entry;
-    newConfig.entry = async () => addSentryToEntryProperty(origEntryProperty, buildContext);
+    newConfig.entry = async () => addSentryToEntryProperty(origEntryProperty, buildContext, userNextConfig);
 
     // In webpack 5, you can get webpack to replace any module you'd like with an empty object, just by setting its
     // `resolve.alias` value to `false`. Not much of our code is neatly separated into "things node needs" and "things
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ export function constructWebpackConfigFunction(
 async function addSentryToEntryProperty(
   currentEntryProperty: WebpackEntryProperty,
   buildContext: BuildContext,
+  userNextConfig: Partial<NextConfigObject>,
 ): Promise<EntryPropertyObject> {
   // The `entry` entry in a webpack config can be a string, array of strings, object, or function. By default, nextjs
   // sets it to an async function which returns the promise of an object of string arrays. Because we don't know whether
@@ -129,10 +130,11 @@ async function addSentryToEntryProperty(
   const newEntryProperty =
     typeof currentEntryProperty === 'function' ? await currentEntryProperty() : { ...currentEntryProperty };
 
+  const userConfigDir = userNextConfig.sentry?.userConfigDir || buildContext.dir;
   // `sentry.server.config.js` or `sentry.client.config.js` (or their TS equivalents)
   const userConfigFile = buildContext.isServer
-    ? getUserConfigFile(buildContext.dir, 'server')
-    : getUserConfigFile(buildContext.dir, 'client');
+    ? getUserConfigFile(userConfigDir, 'server')
+    : getUserConfigFile(userConfigDir, 'client');
 
   // we need to turn the filename into a path so webpack can find it
   const filesToInject = [`./${userConfigFile}`];
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/test/config.test.ts b/packages/nextjs/test/config.test.ts
index 76b9af438c0c..601f38cc0590 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/test/config.test.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/test/config.test.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ const mockExistsSync = (path: fs.PathLike) => {
 
   return realExistsSync(path);
 };
-const exitsSync = jest.spyOn(fs, 'existsSync').mockImplementation(mockExistsSync);
+const existsSync = jest.spyOn(fs, 'existsSync').mockImplementation(mockExistsSync);
 
 // Make it so that all temporary folders, either created directly by tests or by the code they're testing, will go into
 // one spot that we know about, which we can then clean up when we're done
@@ -264,6 +264,19 @@ describe('withSentryConfig', () => {
 
     expect(userNextConfigFunction).toHaveBeenCalledWith(runtimePhase, defaultsObject);
   });
+
+  it(`respects custom userConfigDir`, async () => {
+    const userNextConfigCustomDir = {
+      ...userNextConfig,
+      sentry: { userConfigDir: '/dog_park' },
+    };
+    await materializeFinalWebpackConfig({
+      userNextConfig: userNextConfigCustomDir,
+      incomingWebpackConfig: clientWebpackConfig,
+      incomingWebpackBuildContext: clientBuildContext,
+    });
+    expect(existsSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/dog_park/sentry.client.config.ts');
+  });
 });
 
 describe('webpack config', () => {
@@ -673,7 +686,7 @@ describe('Sentry webpack plugin config', () => {
     let tempDir: string;
 
     beforeAll(() => {
-      exitsSync.mockImplementation(realExistsSync);
+      existsSync.mockImplementation(realExistsSync);
     });
 
     beforeEach(() => {
@@ -685,7 +698,7 @@ describe('Sentry webpack plugin config', () => {
     });
 
     afterAll(() => {
-      exitsSync.mockImplementation(mockExistsSync);
+      existsSync.mockImplementation(mockExistsSync);
     });
 
     it('successfully finds js files', () => {