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 316ca2cf84d48..b6b23fc70141c 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/Timeseries/transformProps.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-echarts/src/Timeseries/transformProps.ts
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ export default function transformProps(
     Object.values(rawSeries).map(series => series.name as string),
   );
   const isAreaExpand = stack === AreaChartExtraControlsValue.Expand;
-  const xAxisDataType = dataTypes?.[xAxisCol];
+  const xAxisDataType = dataTypes?.[xAxisCol] ?? dataTypes?.[xAxisOrig];
+
   const xAxisType = getAxisType(xAxisDataType);
   const series: SeriesOption[] = [];
   const formatter = getNumberFormatter(