diff --git a/compiler/rustc_parse_format/src/lib.rs b/compiler/rustc_parse_format/src/lib.rs
index d67239efa80eb..1c5410c5658c6 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_parse_format/src/lib.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_parse_format/src/lib.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 // We want to be able to build this crate with a stable compiler, so no
 // `#![feature]` attributes should be added.
 
+use rustc_lexer::unescape;
 pub use Alignment::*;
 pub use Count::*;
 pub use Piece::*;
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
         append_newline: bool,
         mode: ParseMode,
     ) -> Parser<'a> {
-        let input_string_kind = find_width_map_from_snippet(snippet, style);
+        let input_string_kind = find_width_map_from_snippet(s, snippet, style);
         let (width_map, is_source_literal) = match input_string_kind {
             InputStringKind::Literal { width_mappings } => (width_mappings, true),
             InputStringKind::NotALiteral => (Vec::new(), false),
@@ -892,6 +893,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
 /// written code (code snippet) and the `InternedString` that gets processed in the `Parser`
 /// in order to properly synthesise the intra-string `Span`s for error diagnostics.
 fn find_width_map_from_snippet(
+    input: &str,
     snippet: Option<string::String>,
     str_style: Option<usize>,
 ) -> InputStringKind {
@@ -904,8 +906,27 @@ fn find_width_map_from_snippet(
         return InputStringKind::Literal { width_mappings: Vec::new() };
     }
 
+    // Strip quotes.
     let snippet = &snippet[1..snippet.len() - 1];
 
+    // Macros like `println` add a newline at the end. That technically doens't make them "literals" anymore, but it's fine
+    // since we will never need to point our spans there, so we lie about it here by ignoring it.
+    // Since there might actually be newlines in the source code, we need to normalize away all trailing newlines.
+    // If we only trimmed it off the input, `format!("\n")` would cause a mismatch as here we they actually match up.
+    // Alternatively, we could just count the trailing newlines and only trim one from the input if they don't match up.
+    let input_no_nl = input.trim_end_matches('\n');
+    let Some(unescaped) = unescape_string(snippet) else {
+        return InputStringKind::NotALiteral;
+    };
+
+    let unescaped_no_nl = unescaped.trim_end_matches('\n');
+
+    if unescaped_no_nl != input_no_nl {
+        // The source string that we're pointing at isn't our input, so spans pointing at it will be incorrect.
+        // This can for example happen with proc macros that respan generated literals.
+        return InputStringKind::NotALiteral;
+    }
+
     let mut s = snippet.char_indices();
     let mut width_mappings = vec![];
     while let Some((pos, c)) = s.next() {
@@ -988,6 +1009,19 @@ fn find_width_map_from_snippet(
     InputStringKind::Literal { width_mappings }
 }
 
+fn unescape_string(string: &str) -> Option<string::String> {
+    let mut buf = string::String::new();
+    let mut ok = true;
+    unescape::unescape_literal(string, unescape::Mode::Str, &mut |_, unescaped_char| {
+        match unescaped_char {
+            Ok(c) => buf.push(c),
+            Err(_) => ok = false,
+        }
+    });
+
+    ok.then_some(buf)
+}
+
 // Assert a reasonable size for `Piece`
 #[cfg(all(target_arch = "x86_64", target_pointer_width = "64"))]
 rustc_data_structures::static_assert_size!(Piece<'_>, 16);