diff --git a/promql/engine.go b/promql/engine.go
index 8c37f12e42..1211c73838 100644
--- a/promql/engine.go
+++ b/promql/engine.go
@@ -1582,6 +1582,11 @@ func (ev *evaluator) eval(ctx context.Context, expr parser.Expr) (parser.Value,
 	if err := contextDone(ctx, "expression evaluation"); err != nil {
 		ev.error(err)
 	}
+
+	if ev.endTimestamp < ev.startTimestamp {
+		return Matrix{}, nil
+	}
+
 	numSteps := int((ev.endTimestamp-ev.startTimestamp)/ev.interval) + 1
 
 	// Create a new span to help investigate inner evaluation performances.
diff --git a/promql/promqltest/testdata/subquery.test b/promql/promqltest/testdata/subquery.test
index 377ee1e5ce..8c7c178b85 100644
--- a/promql/promqltest/testdata/subquery.test
+++ b/promql/promqltest/testdata/subquery.test
@@ -150,3 +150,10 @@ eval instant at 10m increase(native_histogram[10m:3m])
 # by the sub-query multiple times.
 eval instant at 10m increase(native_histogram[10m:15s])
   {} {{count:30.769230769230766 sum:30.769230769230766}}
+
+# When range < resolution and the first evaluation time is out of range.
+load 5m
+	foo 3+0x10
+
+eval instant at 12m min_over_time((topk(1, foo))[1m:5m])
+	#empty