diff --git a/vllm/config/parallel.py b/vllm/config/parallel.py
index 95fd8787af..c0eb67cac1 100644
--- a/vllm/config/parallel.py
+++ b/vllm/config/parallel.py
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ class ParallelConfig:
     timeout parameter. If None, PyTorch's default timeout is used (600s for NCCL).
     Increase this for multi-node setups where model downloads may be slow."""
 
+    cpu_distributed_timeout_seconds: int | None = None
+    """Timeout (in seconds) for cpu communication groups. If None, PyTorch's
+    default timeout is used (1800s for gloo)."""
+
     world_size: int = Field(init=False)
     """world_size is TPxPP, it affects the number of workers we create."""
 
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/parallel_state.py b/vllm/distributed/parallel_state.py
index 2a9452fc25..712167c601 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/parallel_state.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/parallel_state.py
@@ -335,6 +335,10 @@ class GroupCoordinator:
         self_device_group = None
         self_cpu_group = None
 
+        from vllm.distributed.utils import get_cpu_distributed_timeout_or_none
+
+        timeout = get_cpu_distributed_timeout_or_none()
+
         for ranks in group_ranks:
             device_group = torch.distributed.new_group(
                 ranks, backend=torch_distributed_backend
@@ -342,7 +346,9 @@ class GroupCoordinator:
             # a group with `gloo` backend, to allow direct coordination between
             # processes through the CPU.
             with suppress_stdout():
-                cpu_group = torch.distributed.new_group(ranks, backend="gloo")
+                cpu_group = torch.distributed.new_group(
+                    ranks, backend="gloo", timeout=timeout
+                )
             if self.rank in ranks:
                 self.ranks = ranks
                 self.world_size = len(ranks)
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/utils.py b/vllm/distributed/utils.py
index 9991ab1ddc..ba0419a280 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/utils.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/utils.py
@@ -491,6 +491,16 @@ def get_cached_tcp_store_client(host: str, port: int) -> TCPStore:
     return TCPStore(host, port, is_master=False, wait_for_workers=False)
 
 
+def get_cpu_distributed_timeout_or_none() -> timedelta | None:
+    from vllm.config import get_current_vllm_config_or_none
+
+    vllm_config = get_current_vllm_config_or_none()
+    if vllm_config is None:
+        return None
+    timeout_seconds = vllm_config.parallel_config.cpu_distributed_timeout_seconds
+    return timedelta(seconds=timeout_seconds) if timeout_seconds is not None else None
+
+
 def init_gloo_process_group(
     prefix_store: PrefixStore,
     group_rank: int,
@@ -570,6 +580,10 @@ def stateless_init_torch_distributed_process_group(
     init_method = get_tcp_uri(host, port)
     backend = Backend(backend)  # it is basically string
     timeout = _get_default_timeout(backend)
+    if backend == "gloo":
+        gloo_timeout = get_cpu_distributed_timeout_or_none()
+        if gloo_timeout is not None:
+            timeout = gloo_timeout
 
     if listen_socket is not None:
         store = create_tcp_store(
diff --git a/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py b/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
index 0e25a4a35c..aa82b70eb9 100644
--- a/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/engine/arg_utils.py
@@ -456,6 +456,9 @@ class EngineArgs:
     nnodes: int = ParallelConfig.nnodes
     node_rank: int = ParallelConfig.node_rank
     distributed_timeout_seconds: int | None = ParallelConfig.distributed_timeout_seconds
+    cpu_distributed_timeout_seconds: int | None = (
+        ParallelConfig.cpu_distributed_timeout_seconds
+    )
     numa_bind: bool = ParallelConfig.numa_bind
     numa_bind_nodes: list[int] | None = ParallelConfig.numa_bind_nodes
     numa_bind_cpus: list[str] | None = ParallelConfig.numa_bind_cpus
@@ -951,6 +954,10 @@ class EngineArgs:
             "--distributed-timeout-seconds",
             **parallel_kwargs["distributed_timeout_seconds"],
         )
+        parallel_group.add_argument(
+            "--cpu-distributed-timeout-seconds",
+            **parallel_kwargs["cpu_distributed_timeout_seconds"],
+        )
         parallel_group.add_argument("--numa-bind", **parallel_kwargs["numa_bind"])
         parallel_group.add_argument(
             "--numa-bind-nodes", **parallel_kwargs["numa_bind_nodes"]
@@ -1950,6 +1957,7 @@ class EngineArgs:
             nnodes=self.nnodes,
             node_rank=self.node_rank,
             distributed_timeout_seconds=self.distributed_timeout_seconds,
+            cpu_distributed_timeout_seconds=self.cpu_distributed_timeout_seconds,
             data_parallel_master_ip=data_parallel_address,
             data_parallel_rpc_port=data_parallel_rpc_port,
             data_parallel_backend=self.data_parallel_backend,