diff --git a/frontend/scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs b/frontend/scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs
index c378f03b..b591f55d 100644
--- a/frontend/scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs
+++ b/frontend/scripts/generate-sitemap.mjs
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ const exampleUrls = exampleIds.map((id) => ({
   priority: 0.6,
 }));
 
+// Every <loc> carries a trailing slash. nginx serves the prerendered route
+// files as `<route>/index.html` and 301-redirects the slash-less form to add
+// the slash, so a slash-less sitemap URL is fetched as a redirect and filed
+// under "Page with redirect" in Search Console. Matching the served (slash)
+// form keeps the sitemap URL == canonical == 200, with no redirect hop.
 const xml = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
         xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@ ${indexable
   .map(
     (r) => `
   <url>
-    <loc>${DOMAIN}${r.path}</loc>
+    <loc>${DOMAIN}${r.path}${r.path.endsWith('/') ? '' : '/'}</loc>
     <lastmod>${TODAY}</lastmod>
     <changefreq>${r.changefreq ?? 'monthly'}</changefreq>
     <priority>${r.priority ?? 0.5}</priority>
@@ -82,7 +87,7 @@ ${exampleUrls
   .map(
     (u) => `
   <url>
-    <loc>${u.loc}</loc>
+    <loc>${u.loc}/</loc>
     <lastmod>${u.lastmod}</lastmod>
     <changefreq>${u.changefreq}</changefreq>
     <priority>${u.priority}</priority>
diff --git a/frontend/scripts/prerender-seo.mjs b/frontend/scripts/prerender-seo.mjs
index 3e383c1c..24416c3a 100644
--- a/frontend/scripts/prerender-seo.mjs
+++ b/frontend/scripts/prerender-seo.mjs
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ if (!existsSync(join(distDir, 'index.html'))) {
 const baseHtml = readFileSync(join(distDir, 'index.html'), 'utf-8');
 const DOMAIN = 'https://velxio.dev';
 
+// nginx serves each prerendered route as `<route>/index.html` and
+// 301-redirects the slash-less URL to add the trailing slash. Canonical +
+// og:url must therefore use the slash form (== the served URL == the sitemap
+// entry), or Google sees a canonical that points to a redirecting URL.
+const withSlash = (u) => (u.endsWith('/') ? u : `${u}/`);
+
 // ── Mock browser globals for SSR ────────────────────────────────────────────
 // Zustand's persist middleware and some components access these at import time.
 if (typeof globalThis.localStorage === 'undefined') {
@@ -96,7 +102,7 @@ try {
     );
 
     // Add/replace canonical URL
-    const canonicalTag = `<link rel="canonical" href="${seoMeta.url}" />`;
+    const canonicalTag = `<link rel="canonical" href="${withSlash(seoMeta.url)}" />`;
     if (html.includes('<link rel="canonical"')) {
       html = html.replace(/<link rel="canonical"[^>]*\/>/, canonicalTag);
     } else {
@@ -114,7 +120,7 @@ try {
     );
     html = html.replace(
       /<meta property="og:url" content="[^"]*"/,
-      `<meta property="og:url" content="${seoMeta.url}"`
+      `<meta property="og:url" content="${withSlash(seoMeta.url)}"`
     );
 
     // Replace Twitter tags
@@ -169,7 +175,7 @@ try {
       `<meta name="description" content="${exRoute.description}"`
     );
 
-    const canonicalTag = `<link rel="canonical" href="${exRoute.url}" />`;
+    const canonicalTag = `<link rel="canonical" href="${withSlash(exRoute.url)}" />`;
     if (html.includes('<link rel="canonical"')) {
       html = html.replace(/<link rel="canonical"[^>]*\/>/, canonicalTag);
     } else {
@@ -178,7 +184,7 @@ try {
 
     html = html.replace(/<meta property="og:title" content="[^"]*"/, `<meta property="og:title" content="${exRoute.title}"`);
     html = html.replace(/<meta property="og:description" content="[^"]*"/, `<meta property="og:description" content="${exRoute.description}"`);
-    html = html.replace(/<meta property="og:url" content="[^"]*"/, `<meta property="og:url" content="${exRoute.url}"`);
+    html = html.replace(/<meta property="og:url" content="[^"]*"/, `<meta property="og:url" content="${withSlash(exRoute.url)}"`);
     html = html.replace(/<meta name="twitter:title" content="[^"]*"/, `<meta name="twitter:title" content="${exRoute.title}"`);
     html = html.replace(/<meta name="twitter:description" content="[^"]*"/, `<meta name="twitter:description" content="${exRoute.description}"`);
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/useSEO.ts b/frontend/src/utils/useSEO.ts
index 0fca3915..4b54dda9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/utils/useSEO.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/useSEO.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,22 @@ function qs(selector: string): HTMLMetaElement | null {
   return document.querySelector(selector) as HTMLMetaElement | null;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Canonical + og:url must carry a trailing slash to match the URL the server
+ * actually serves (nginx 301-redirects the slash-less form), so the canonical
+ * never points at a redirecting URL and project pages agree with their
+ * sitemap entry. Query/hash are preserved.
+ */
+function withTrailingSlash(u: string): string {
+  try {
+    const parsed = new URL(u, 'https://velxio.dev');
+    if (!parsed.pathname.endsWith('/')) parsed.pathname += '/';
+    return parsed.toString();
+  } catch {
+    return u.endsWith('/') ? u : `${u}/`;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Updates document.title, meta description, OG/Twitter tags, and canonical
  * to reflect the current page. Restores originals on unmount.
@@ -63,6 +79,7 @@ export function useSEO({ title, description, url, ogImage, jsonLd, noindex }: SE
     }
 
     // Apply
+    const canonicalUrl = withTrailingSlash(url);
     document.title = title;
     set(descEl, description);
     if (noindex) {
@@ -70,11 +87,11 @@ export function useSEO({ title, description, url, ogImage, jsonLd, noindex }: SE
     }
     set(ogTitleEl, title);
     set(ogDescEl, description);
-    set(ogUrlEl, url);
+    set(ogUrlEl, canonicalUrl);
     if (ogImage) set(ogImgEl, ogImage);
     set(twTitleEl, title);
     set(twDescEl, description);
-    activeCanonical.setAttribute('href', url);
+    activeCanonical.setAttribute('href', canonicalUrl);
 
     // Inject JSON-LD once (module-level constants don't change)
     if (jsonLd && !scriptRef.current) {