diff --git a/src/Formats/SchemaInferenceUtils.cpp b/src/Formats/SchemaInferenceUtils.cpp
index fc1a26f9b2f..d0d29892dec 100644
--- a/src/Formats/SchemaInferenceUtils.cpp
+++ b/src/Formats/SchemaInferenceUtils.cpp
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ namespace
         data_types.push_back(variant_type);
         type_indexes.insert(TypeIndex::Variant);
 
-        // push it back again
+        // make the second type variant as well
         data_types.push_back(variant_type);
         type_indexes.insert(TypeIndex::Variant);
     }
@@ -669,7 +669,6 @@ namespace
             if (settings.json.infer_variant_from_multitype_array)
             {
                 transformVariant(data_types, type_indexes);
-                return;
             }
 
             /// Convert numbers inferred from strings back to strings if needed.
@@ -703,7 +702,6 @@ namespace
             if (settings.json.infer_variant_from_multitype_array)
             {
                 transformVariant(data_types, type_indexes);
-                return;
             }
 
             /// Convert JSON tuples with same nested types to arrays.
@@ -1440,6 +1438,15 @@ void transformFinalInferredJSONTypeIfNeededImpl(DataTypePtr & data_type, const F
 
         return;
     }
+
+    if (const auto * variant_type = typeid_cast<const DataTypeVariant *>(data_type.get()))
+    {
+        auto nested_types = variant_type->getVariants();
+        for (auto & nested_type : nested_types)
+            transformFinalInferredJSONTypeIfNeededImpl(nested_type, settings, json_info, remain_nothing_types);
+        data_type = std::make_shared<DataTypeVariant>(nested_types);
+        return;
+    }
 }
 
 void transformFinalInferredJSONTypeIfNeeded(DataTypePtr & data_type, const FormatSettings & settings, JSONInferenceInfo * json_info)
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/03150_infer_type_variant.reference b/tests/queries/0_stateless/03150_infer_type_variant.reference
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ffb4209eadb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/03150_infer_type_variant.reference
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+   ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
+   ┃ arr              ┃ toTypeName(arr)                     ┃
+   ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
+1. │ [1,'Hello',(32)] │ Array(Variant(Int64, String, Tuple(…│
+   │                  │…    a Int64)))                      │
+   └──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘
+   ┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
+   ┃ x     ┃ toTypeName(x)          ┃
+   ┡━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
+1. │ 42    │ Variant(Int64, String) │
+   ├───────┼────────────────────────┤
+2. │ Hello │ Variant(Int64, String) │
+   └───────┴────────────────────────┘
+   ┏━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
+   ┃ x       ┃ toTypeName(x)                ┃
+   ┡━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
+1. │ [1,2,3] │ Variant(Array(Int64), Tuple(…│
+   │         │…    a Int64))                │
+   ├─────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
+2. │ (42)    │ Variant(Array(Int64), Tuple(…│
+   │         │…    a Int64))                │
+   └─────────┴──────────────────────────────┘