diff --git a/src/ol/render/Event.js b/src/ol/render/Event.js
index dcfe5027e9..7f20aac9a2 100644
--- a/src/ol/render/Event.js
+++ b/src/ol/render/Event.js
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class RenderEvent extends Event {
 
     /**
      * Transform from CSS pixels (relative to the top-left corner of the map viewport)
-     * to rendered pixels on this event's `context`.
+     * to rendered pixels on this event's `context`. Only available when a Canvas renderer is used, null otherwise.
      * @type {import("../transform.js").Transform|undefined}
      * @api
      */
diff --git a/src/ol/renderer/webgl/Layer.js b/src/ol/renderer/webgl/Layer.js
index 9f3f008201..681b5be65d 100644
--- a/src/ol/renderer/webgl/Layer.js
+++ b/src/ol/renderer/webgl/Layer.js
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
  * @module ol/renderer/webgl/Layer
  */
 import LayerRenderer from '../Layer.js';
+import RenderEvent from '../../render/Event.js';
+import RenderEventType from '../../render/EventType.js';
 import WebGLHelper from '../../webgl/Helper.js';
 
 /**
@@ -81,6 +83,36 @@ class WebGLLayerRenderer extends LayerRenderer {
   getShaderCompileErrors() {
     return this.helper.getShaderCompileErrors();
   }
+
+  /**
+   * @param {import("../../render/EventType.js").default} type Event type.
+   * @param {import("../../PluggableMap.js").FrameState} frameState Frame state.
+   * @private
+   */
+  dispatchRenderEvent_(type, frameState) {
+    const layer = this.getLayer();
+    if (layer.hasListener(type)) {
+      // RenderEvent does not get a context or an inversePixelTransform, because WebGL allows much less direct editing than Canvas2d does.
+      const event = new RenderEvent(type, null, frameState, null);
+      layer.dispatchEvent(event);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @param {import("../../PluggableMap.js").FrameState} frameState Frame state.
+   * @protected
+   */
+  preRender(frameState) {
+    this.dispatchRenderEvent_(RenderEventType.PRERENDER, frameState);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @param {import("../../PluggableMap.js").FrameState} frameState Frame state.
+   * @protected
+   */
+  postRender(frameState) {
+    this.dispatchRenderEvent_(RenderEventType.POSTRENDER, frameState);
+  }
 }
 
 const tmpArray_ = [];
diff --git a/src/ol/renderer/webgl/PointsLayer.js b/src/ol/renderer/webgl/PointsLayer.js
index a756fbb02e..7a16d585d6 100644
--- a/src/ol/renderer/webgl/PointsLayer.js
+++ b/src/ol/renderer/webgl/PointsLayer.js
@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ class WebGLPointsLayerRenderer extends WebGLLayerRenderer {
    * @return {HTMLElement} The rendered element.
    */
   renderFrame(frameState) {
+    this.preRender(frameState);
+
     const renderCount = this.indicesBuffer_.getSize();
     this.helper.drawElements(0, renderCount);
     this.helper.finalizeDraw(frameState);
@@ -425,6 +427,8 @@ class WebGLPointsLayerRenderer extends WebGLLayerRenderer {
       this.hitRenderTarget_.clearCachedData();
     }
 
+    this.postRender(frameState);
+
     return canvas;
   }
 
diff --git a/test/spec/ol/renderer/webgl/pointslayer.test.js b/test/spec/ol/renderer/webgl/pointslayer.test.js
index c6299098ea..b44d60cff6 100644
--- a/test/spec/ol/renderer/webgl/pointslayer.test.js
+++ b/test/spec/ol/renderer/webgl/pointslayer.test.js
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import Feature from '../../../../../src/ol/Feature.js';
+import GeoJSON from '../../../../../src/ol/format/GeoJSON.js';
 import Point from '../../../../../src/ol/geom/Point.js';
 import VectorLayer from '../../../../../src/ol/layer/Vector.js';
 import VectorSource from '../../../../../src/ol/source/Vector.js';
 import ViewHint from '../../../../../src/ol/ViewHint.js';
+import WebGLPointsLayer from '../../../../../src/ol/layer/WebGLPoints.js';
 import WebGLPointsLayerRenderer from '../../../../../src/ol/renderer/webgl/PointsLayer.js';
 import {WebGLWorkerMessageType} from '../../../../../src/ol/renderer/webgl/Layer.js';
 import {
@@ -592,4 +594,86 @@ describe('ol.renderer.webgl.PointsLayer', function () {
       );
     });
   });
+
+  describe('fires events', () => {
+    let layer, source, renderer, frameState;
+
+    beforeEach(function () {
+      source = new VectorSource({
+        features: new GeoJSON().readFeatures({
+          'type': 'FeatureCollection',
+          'features': [
+            {
+              'type': 'Feature',
+              'properties': {},
+              'geometry': {
+                'type': 'Point',
+                'coordinates': [13, 52],
+              },
+            },
+          ],
+        }),
+      });
+
+      layer = new WebGLPointsLayer({
+        source,
+        style: {
+          symbol: {
+            symbolType: 'square',
+          },
+        },
+      });
+
+      renderer = new WebGLPointsLayerRenderer(layer, {
+        vertexShader: simpleVertexShader,
+        fragmentShader: simpleFragmentShader,
+      });
+
+      frameState = {
+        viewHints: [],
+        viewState: {
+          projection: getProjection('EPSG:4326'),
+          resolution: 0.010986328125,
+          rotation: 0,
+          center: [15, 52],
+          zoom: 7,
+        },
+        extent: [
+          11.1932373046875,
+          46.429931640625,
+          18.8067626953125,
+          57.570068359375,
+        ],
+        size: [693, 1014],
+        layerIndex: 0,
+        layerStatesArray: [
+          {
+            layer: layer,
+            opacity: 1,
+            visible: true,
+            zIndex: 0,
+          },
+        ],
+      };
+    });
+
+    it('fires prerender and postrender events', function (done) {
+      let prerenderNotified = false;
+      let postrenderNotified = false;
+
+      layer.once('prerender', (evt) => {
+        prerenderNotified = true;
+      });
+
+      layer.once('postrender', (evt) => {
+        postrenderNotified = true;
+        expect(prerenderNotified).to.be(true);
+        expect(postrenderNotified).to.be(true);
+        done();
+      });
+
+      renderer.prepareFrame(frameState);
+      renderer.renderFrame(frameState);
+    });
+  });
 });