diff --git a/.changeset/nasty-ladybugs-whisper.md b/.changeset/nasty-ladybugs-whisper.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d922187e5cb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/nasty-ladybugs-whisper.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'astro': patch
+---
+
+Prevents prefetching of the same urls with different hashes.
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/prefetch/index.ts b/packages/astro/src/prefetch/index.ts
index 177945f379a5..3eb8cd57018e 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/prefetch/index.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/prefetch/index.ts
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ export interface PrefetchOptions {
  * @param opts Additional options for prefetching.
  */
 export function prefetch(url: string, opts?: PrefetchOptions) {
+	// Remove url hash to avoid prefetching the same URL multiple times
+	url = url.replace(/#.*/, '');
+
 	const ignoreSlowConnection = opts?.ignoreSlowConnection ?? false;
 	if (!canPrefetchUrl(url, ignoreSlowConnection)) return;
 	prefetchedUrls.add(url);