diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py b/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py
index 5a4de6a01..74ff354ce 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py
@@ -1982,7 +1982,7 @@ def to_dataframe(
 
         if geography_as_object:
             for field in self.schema:
-                if field.field_type.upper() == "GEOGRAPHY":
+                if field.field_type.upper() == "GEOGRAPHY" and field.mode != "REPEATED":
                     df[field.name] = df[field.name].dropna().apply(_read_wkt)
 
         return df