diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/no-server.js b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/no-server.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ac0122b48380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/no-server.js
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+const { loggingTransport } = require('@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests');
+const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
+
+Sentry.init({
+  dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
+  release: '1.0',
+  transport: loggingTransport,
+  beforeSend(event) {
+    event.contexts = {
+      ...event.contexts,
+      traceData: {
+        ...Sentry.getTraceData(),
+        metaTags: Sentry.getTraceMetaTags(),
+      },
+    };
+    return event;
+  },
+});
+
+Sentry.captureException(new Error('test error'));
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/server.js b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/server.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..19877ffe3613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/server.js
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+const { loggingTransport, startExpressServerAndSendPortToRunner } = require('@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests');
+const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
+
+Sentry.init({
+  dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
+  transport: loggingTransport,
+  beforeSend(event) {
+    event.contexts = {
+      ...event.contexts,
+      traceData: {
+        ...Sentry.getTraceData(),
+        metaTags: Sentry.getTraceMetaTags(),
+      },
+    };
+    return event;
+  },
+});
+
+// express must be required after Sentry is initialized
+const express = require('express');
+
+const app = express();
+
+app.get('/test', () => {
+  throw new Error('test error');
+});
+
+Sentry.setupExpressErrorHandler(app);
+
+startExpressServerAndSendPortToRunner(app);
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/test.ts b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e6c0bfff822d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/meta-tags-twp-errors/test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import { cleanupChildProcesses, createRunner } from '../../../utils/runner';
+
+describe('errors in TwP mode have same trace in trace context and getTraceData()', () => {
+  afterAll(() => {
+    cleanupChildProcesses();
+  });
+
+  test('in incoming request', async () => {
+    createRunner(__dirname, 'server.js')
+      .expect({
+        event: event => {
+          const { contexts } = event;
+          const { trace_id, span_id } = contexts?.trace || {};
+          expect(trace_id).toMatch(/^[a-f0-9]{32}$/);
+          expect(span_id).toMatch(/^[a-f0-9]{16}$/);
+
+          const traceData = contexts?.traceData || {};
+
+          expect(traceData['sentry-trace']).toEqual(`${trace_id}-${span_id}`);
+          expect(traceData.baggage).toContain(`sentry-trace_id=${trace_id}`);
+
+          expect(traceData.metaTags).toContain(`<meta name="sentry-trace" content="${trace_id}-${span_id}"/>`);
+          expect(traceData.metaTags).toContain(`sentr y-trace_id=${trace_id}`);
+          expect(traceData.metaTags).not.toContain('sentry-sampled=');
+        },
+      })
+      .start()
+      .makeRequest('get', '/test');
+  });
+
+  test('outside of a request handler', done => {
+    createRunner(__dirname, 'no-server.js')
+      .expect({
+        event: event => {
+          const { contexts } = event;
+          const { trace_id, span_id } = contexts?.trace || {};
+          expect(trace_id).toMatch(/^[a-f0-9]{32}$/);
+          expect(span_id).toMatch(/^[a-f0-9]{16}$/);
+
+          const traceData = contexts?.traceData || {};
+
+          expect(traceData['sentry-trace']).toEqual(`${trace_id}-${span_id}`);
+          expect(traceData.baggage).toContain(`sentry-trace_id=${trace_id}`);
+
+          expect(traceData.metaTags).toContain(`<meta name="sentry-trace" content="${trace_id}-${span_id}"/>`);
+          expect(traceData.metaTags).toContain(`sentry-trace_id=${trace_id}`);
+          expect(traceData.metaTags).not.toContain('sentry-sampled=');
+        },
+      })
+      .start(done);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry/src/propagator.ts b/packages/opentelemetry/src/propagator.ts
index 387943cf9cf0..f4fcb1fa91e9 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry/src/propagator.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry/src/propagator.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import { propagation, trace } from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import { W3CBaggagePropagator, isTracingSuppressed } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 import { ATTR_URL_FULL, SEMATTRS_HTTP_URL } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions';
 import type { continueTrace } from '@sentry/core';
-import { hasTracingEnabled } from '@sentry/core';
 import { getRootSpan } from '@sentry/core';
 import { spanToJSON } from '@sentry/core';
 import {
@@ -198,7 +197,7 @@ function getInjectionData(context: Context): {
   spanId: string | undefined;
   sampled: boolean | undefined;
 } {
-  const span = hasTracingEnabled() ? trace.getSpan(context) : undefined;
+  const span = trace.getSpan(context);
   const spanIsRemote = span?.spanContext().isRemote;
 
   // If we have a local span, we can just pick everything from it