diff --git a/docs/guides/editor_features/overview.md b/docs/guides/editor_features/overview.md
index c4a5b0686f6..59aa0a195ec 100644
--- a/docs/guides/editor_features/overview.md
+++ b/docs/guides/editor_features/overview.md
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ editing their contents.
 - `Shift+↓`/`Shift+↑` - multi-select cells
 - `Enter` - edit selected cell
 - `a`/`b` - new cell above/below
+- `q` - new SQL cell below
 - `c`/`v` - copy/paste cells
 - `s` - save notebook
 - `Shift+Enter` - run cell and move to next
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/editor/navigation/navigation.ts b/frontend/src/components/editor/navigation/navigation.ts
index cb3a2065a19..1bb0716d363 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/editor/navigation/navigation.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/editor/navigation/navigation.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { useMemo } from "react";
 import { mergeProps, useFocusWithin, useKeyboard } from "react-aria";
 import { DATA_FOR_CELL_ID } from "@/components/data-table/cell-utils";
 import { aiCompletionCellAtom } from "@/core/ai/state";
+import { maybeAddMarimoImport } from "@/core/cells/add-missing-import";
 import { cellIdsAtom, notebookAtom, useCellActions } from "@/core/cells/cells";
 import { useCellFocusActions } from "@/core/cells/focus";
 import type { CellId } from "@/core/cells/ids";
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ import {
   closeSignatureHint,
   signatureHintField,
 } from "@/core/codemirror/completion/signature-hint";
+import { LanguageAdapters } from "@/core/codemirror/language/LanguageAdapters";
 import {
   hotkeysAtom,
   isAiFeatureEnabled,
@@ -551,6 +553,23 @@ export function useCellNavigationProps(
           actions.createNewCell({ cellId, before: false, autoFocus: true });
           return true;
         },
+        "command.createSqlCellAfter": (cellId) => {
+          if (Events.hasModifier(evt)) {
+            return false;
+          }
+          const importCellId = maybeAddMarimoImport({
+            autoInstantiate: true,
+            createNewCell: actions.createNewCell,
+            fromCellId: cellId,
+          });
+          actions.createNewCell({
+            cellId: importCellId ?? cellId,
+            before: false,
+            autoFocus: true,
+            code: LanguageAdapters.sql.defaultCode,
+          });
+          return true;
+        },
         "cell.delete": () => {
           // Only handle if destructive_delete is enabled
           if (!userConfig.keymap.destructive_delete) {
diff --git a/frontend/src/core/hotkeys/hotkeys.ts b/frontend/src/core/hotkeys/hotkeys.ts
index 77b0168ad15..25002b7995b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/core/hotkeys/hotkeys.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/core/hotkeys/hotkeys.ts
@@ -458,6 +458,11 @@ const DEFAULT_HOT_KEY = {
     group: "Command",
     key: "b",
   },
+  "command.createSqlCellAfter": {
+    name: "Create a SQL cell after current cell",
+    group: "Command",
+    key: "q",
+  },
   "command.copyCell": {
     name: "Copy cell",
     group: "Command",