diff --git a/esphome/components/esp32/operator_new.cpp b/esphome/components/esp32/operator_new.cpp
index eca94421601..dbe5e576630 100644
--- a/esphome/components/esp32/operator_new.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/esp32/operator_new.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <sdkconfig.h>
 #ifndef CONFIG_COMPILER_CXX_EXCEPTIONS
 
+#include <malloc.h>
 #include <cstdlib>
 #include <new>
 #include "esp_system.h"
@@ -41,5 +42,32 @@ void *operator new(std::size_t size) {
 void *operator new[](std::size_t size) { return ::operator new(size); }
 void *operator new[](std::size_t size, const std::nothrow_t &tag) noexcept { return ::operator new(size, tag); }
 
+// Aligned forms; libstdc++'s aligned delete frees with free(), which matches memalign()
+void *operator new(std::size_t size, std::align_val_t align, const std::nothrow_t & /*tag*/) noexcept {
+  if (size == 0)
+    size = 1;
+  for (;;) {
+    void *ptr = memalign(static_cast<std::size_t>(align), size);
+    if (ptr != nullptr)
+      return ptr;
+    std::new_handler handler = std::get_new_handler();
+    if (handler == nullptr)
+      return nullptr;
+    handler();
+  }
+}
+
+void *operator new(std::size_t size, std::align_val_t align) {
+  void *ptr = ::operator new(size, align, std::nothrow);  // NOLINT: this is the nothrow form being fixed
+  if (ptr == nullptr)
+    esp_system_abort("std::bad_alloc");
+  return ptr;
+}
+
+void *operator new[](std::size_t size, std::align_val_t align) { return ::operator new(size, align); }
+void *operator new[](std::size_t size, std::align_val_t align, const std::nothrow_t &tag) noexcept {
+  return ::operator new(size, align, tag);
+}
+
 #endif  // CONFIG_COMPILER_CXX_EXCEPTIONS
 #endif  // USE_ESP_IDF
diff --git a/script/ci-custom.py b/script/ci-custom.py
index 1b3abc40f2d..af862e54889 100755
--- a/script/ci-custom.py
+++ b/script/ci-custom.py
@@ -1257,9 +1257,9 @@ def lint_no_std_bind(fname, match):
 )
 def lint_no_std_nothrow(fname, match):
     return (
-        f"{highlight('new (std::nothrow)')} aborts on ESP-IDF when the allocation fails, exceptions are disabled "
-        f"there, so it never returns nullptr.\n"
-        f"Please use {highlight('RAMAllocator')} from esphome/core/helpers.h, which does.\n"
+        f"Please use {highlight('RAMAllocator')} from esphome/core/helpers.h instead of "
+        f"{highlight('new (std::nothrow)')}: it returns nullptr on failure on every platform and lets you choose PSRAM "
+        f"or internal RAM.\n"
         f"  Before: {highlight('auto *buf = new (std::nothrow) uint8_t[n];')}\n"
         f"  After:  {highlight('auto buf = RAMAllocator<uint8_t>().make_unique_array_for_overwrite(n);')}\n"
         f"For one object use {highlight('RAMAllocator<T>().make_unique(args...)')}; both return empty on failure.\n"