diff --git a/docs/assets/app.css b/docs/assets/app.css
index fab3f4c6..80674d1d 100644
--- a/docs/assets/app.css
+++ b/docs/assets/app.css
@@ -7184,3 +7184,10 @@ mark.ck ins { color: var(--status-good, #2f6b3a); text-decoration: none; font-st
   .check-shell { padding: 18px 14px 48px; }
   .check-toggle { margin-left: 0; }
 }
+
+/* "Data as of" chip under the Source list (paintDataAsOf) */
+.data-asof {
+  display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; margin: 10px 0 0; padding: 3px 9px;
+  border: 1px solid var(--rule, #ddd); border-radius: 999px; font-size: 11.5px; color: var(--ink-3); cursor: help;
+}
+.data-asof::before { content: ""; width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: 50%; background: currentColor; opacity: .55; }
diff --git a/docs/assets/app.js b/docs/assets/app.js
index 7afd9e4e..cd1849c5 100644
--- a/docs/assets/app.js
+++ b/docs/assets/app.js
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ async function pingApi() {
       state.apiOnline = true;
       state.apiStats = r;
       paintApiBadge(true, ms);
+      paintDataAsOf();
       return;
     } catch (e) {
       console.warn(`[unhrdb-api] unreachable (${timeoutMs} ms budget):`, e.message);
@@ -1494,6 +1495,46 @@ function mergeJurFacets(base) {
   };
 }
 
+// ─────────── "Data as of" chip under the Source list ───────────
+// When the corpus behind the selected source last changed. UNHRDB: the live API's build date (the static
+// manifest when the API is offline). Recommendations: the newest UHRI recommendation and the last check of
+// OHCHR for new ones, from the UHRI mirror's refresh status.
+const _asofDay = d => new Date(d).toLocaleDateString('en-GB', { day: 'numeric', month: 'short', year: 'numeric', timeZone: 'UTC' });
+let _uhriFresh = null;
+async function loadUhriFreshness() {
+  if (_uhriFresh) return _uhriFresh;
+  try {
+    const [st, h] = await Promise.all([
+      fetch(UHRI_API_BASE + '/refresh_status.json', { cache: 'no-store' }).then(r => (r.ok ? r.json() : {})),
+      uhriFetch('/api/data/health'),
+    ]);
+    _uhriFresh = { latest: st.latest_publication || null, changed: h.modified_at || null,
+                   checked: st.last_checked_at || st.finished_at || null };
+  } catch (e) { _uhriFresh = null; }
+  return _uhriFresh;
+}
+async function paintDataAsOf() {
+  const el = $('#data-asof');
+  if (!el) return;
+  if (state.scope === 'rec') {
+    el.hidden = true;
+    const f = await loadUhriFreshness();
+    if (!f || state.scope !== 'rec') return;
+    const main = f.latest ? `Recommendations to ${_asofDay(f.latest)}` : f.changed ? `Updated ${_asofDay(f.changed)}` : '';
+    if (!main) return;
+    el.textContent = main + (f.checked ? ` · checked ${_asofDay(f.checked)}` : '');
+    el.title = 'UHRI recommendations reach the index some weeks after the documents are published. '
+      + (f.checked ? `OHCHR was last checked for new ones on ${_asofDay(f.checked)}` : '')
+      + (f.changed ? `; the data last changed on ${_asofDay(f.changed)}.` : '.');
+  } else {
+    const built = state.apiStats?.manifest?.builtAt || state.manifest?.builtAt;
+    if (!built) { el.hidden = true; return; }
+    el.textContent = `Data updated ${_asofDay(built)}`;
+    el.title = `General Comments, jurisprudence and Special Procedures reports, as built on ${_asofDay(built)}. New documents are added after review, not automatically.`;
+  }
+  el.hidden = false;
+}
+
 // ─────────── Masthead folio ───────────
 function paintMastFolio(m) {
   const today = new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-GB', { day: '2-digit', month: 'long', year: 'numeric' }).toUpperCase();
@@ -1519,6 +1560,7 @@ function paintMastFolio(m) {
   const q = $('#q');
   if (q) q.placeholder = `Search ${totParas} paragraphs across ${totDocs} UN documents…`;
   paintFreshnessCard(m);
+  paintDataAsOf();
 }
 
 // Freshness card — green/amber/red traffic light on the About tab.
@@ -6246,6 +6288,7 @@ function bindUI() {
     syncRecFiltersVisibility();
     paintCountryFilter();
     if (state.scope === 'rec') { loadRecVocab(); paintRecFilters(); }
+    paintDataAsOf();
 
     // Jurisprudence has 3,100+ documents and 111k paragraphs, so
     // the default "Paragraphs" view dumps a wall of weakly-related rows on
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index d877fa62..270f30b1 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 </script>
 
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/tokens.css?v=20261013-f5d20f0" />
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/app.css?v=20261013-f5d20f0" />
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/app.css?v=20261013-asof" />
 
 <!-- Google Analytics 4 is loaded LAZILY, only after the visitor opts in
      via the consent banner — see initConsent()/loadAnalytics() in app.js.
@@ -419,6 +419,8 @@ <h1 class="serif mast-title" title="A paragraph-level companion to UN Treaty Bod
           <span class="scope-count" id="count-rec">UHRI · live</span>
         </button>
       </div>
+      <!-- How current the selected source is: paintDataAsOf() in app.js. -->
+      <p class="data-asof" id="data-asof" hidden></p>
       <!-- Populated by paintScopeBanner() — currently only the Jurisprudence
            scope shows a banner; Special Procedures no longer does. -->
       <div class="scope-banner" id="scope-banner" hidden></div>
@@ -1751,7 +1753,7 @@ <h3 id="report-modal-title" class="report-modal-title">What did you spot?</h3>
 <div class="diff-tray" id="diff-tray" hidden></div>
 <div class="diff-modal" id="diff-modal" hidden></div>
 
-<script type="module" src="assets/app.js?v=20261013-f5d20f0"></script>
+<script type="module" src="assets/app.js?v=20261013-asof"></script>
 <script src="assets/who.js?v=20261013" data-tool="unhrdb" data-endpoint="https://lszoszk.goatcounter.com/count" defer></script>
 </body>
 </html>