diff --git a/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py b/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py
index eb5c7739e5132..c2d37d53604e5 100644
--- a/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py
+++ b/pandas/core/dtypes/dtypes.py
@@ -2307,7 +2307,12 @@ def kind(self) -> str:
     @cache_readonly
     def itemsize(self) -> int:
         """Return the number of bytes in this dtype"""
-        return self.numpy_dtype.itemsize
+        try:
+            # Use PyArrow's bit_width for fixed-width types
+            return self.pyarrow_dtype.bit_width // 8  # convert from bit to bytes
+        except (AttributeError, NotImplementedError, ValueError):
+            # Fall back to numpy dtype for variable-width or unsupported types
+            return self.numpy_dtype.itemsize
 
     def construct_array_type(self) -> type_t[ArrowExtensionArray]:
         """
diff --git a/pandas/tests/extension/test_arrow.py b/pandas/tests/extension/test_arrow.py
index fe1291809cbf3..4d16a795ef808 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/extension/test_arrow.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/extension/test_arrow.py
@@ -3576,6 +3576,29 @@ def test_timestamp_dtype_disallows_decimal():
         pd.array(vals, dtype=ArrowDtype(pa.timestamp("us")))
 
 
+def test_arrow_dtype_itemsize():
+    # Regression test for GH#57948 where date32[day] was incorrectly
+    # reporting 8 bytes instead of 4.
+
+    # date32 should be 4 bytes, not 8
+    dtype = ArrowDtype(pa.date32())
+    assert dtype.itemsize == 4
+
+    # Testing other fixed-width types
+    assert ArrowDtype(pa.int32()).itemsize == 4
+    assert ArrowDtype(pa.int64()).itemsize == 8
+    assert ArrowDtype(pa.float32()).itemsize == 4
+    assert ArrowDtype(pa.float64()).itemsize == 8
+    assert ArrowDtype(pa.date64()).itemsize == 8
+
+    # Test that variable-width types fall back gracefully
+    string_dtype = ArrowDtype(pa.string())
+    assert isinstance(string_dtype.itemsize, int)
+
+    list_dtype = ArrowDtype(pa.list_(pa.int32()))
+    assert isinstance(list_dtype.itemsize, int)
+
+
 def test_timestamp_dtype_matches_to_datetime():
     # GH#61775
     dtype1 = "datetime64[ns, US/Eastern]"