diff --git a/airflow/models/connection.py b/airflow/models/connection.py
index 5b10e1b18430f..37a0865014cca 100644
--- a/airflow/models/connection.py
+++ b/airflow/models/connection.py
@@ -247,7 +247,13 @@ def _create_host(protocol, host) -> str | None:
         return host
 
     def get_uri(self) -> str:
-        """Return connection in URI format."""
+        """
+        Return the connection URI in Airflow format.
+
+        The Airflow URI format examples: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/howto/connection.html#uri-format-example
+
+        Note that the URI returned by this method is **not** SQLAlchemy-compatible, if you need a SQLAlchemy-compatible URI, use the :attr:`~airflow.providers.common.sql.hooks.sql.DbApiHook.sqlalchemy_url`
+        """
         if self.conn_type and "_" in self.conn_type:
             self.log.warning(
                 "Connection schemes (type: %s) shall not contain '_' according to RFC3986.",
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow/howto/connection.rst b/docs/apache-airflow/howto/connection.rst
index f90f7e96b10e5..d0cc058a4305b 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow/howto/connection.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow/howto/connection.rst
@@ -419,6 +419,10 @@ convenience method :py:meth:`~airflow.models.connection.Connection.get_uri`.  It
     >>> print(f"AIRFLOW_CONN_{c.conn_id.upper()}='{c.get_uri()}'")
     AIRFLOW_CONN_SOME_CONN='mysql://myname:mypassword@myhost.com?this_param=some+val&that_param=other+val%2A'
 
+.. note::
+
+   The ``get_uri()`` method return the connection URI in Airflow format, **not** a SQLAlchemy-compatible URI. if you need a SQLAlchemy-compatible URI for database connections, use :attr:`~airflow.providers.common.sql.hooks.sql.DbApiHook.sqlalchemy_url` property instead.
+
 Additionally, if you have created a connection, you can use ``airflow connections get`` command.
 
 .. code-block:: console