diff --git a/app/Livewire/Project/Show.php b/app/Livewire/Project/Show.php
index a055904d51..a2f2c42918 100644
--- a/app/Livewire/Project/Show.php
+++ b/app/Livewire/Project/Show.php
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class Show extends Component
         $canCreateResource = auth()->user()->can('createAnyResource');
 
         return view('livewire.project.show', [
-            'environmentsJs' => $this->project->environments->map(function (Environment $environment) use ($canCreateResource, $canUpdateProject): array {
+            'environmentsJs' => $this->project->environments->sort(fn (Environment $first, Environment $second): int => Environment::compareNames($first->name, $second->name))->values()->map(function (Environment $environment) use ($canCreateResource, $canUpdateProject): array {
                 $resourceCount = collect([
                     $environment->applications_count,
                     $environment->services_count,
diff --git a/app/Models/Environment.php b/app/Models/Environment.php
index 5521bd31c5..8e11fb72f8 100644
--- a/app/Models/Environment.php
+++ b/app/Models/Environment.php
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ class Environment extends BaseModel
         });
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sort order of environment names: production, staging, and development first, then the others by name.
+     * resources/js/environment-order.js has the same order for the canvases.
+     */
+    public static function compareNames(string $first, string $second): int
+    {
+        $order = ['production', 'staging', 'development'];
+        $rank = fn (string $name): int => ($index = array_search(strtolower($name), $order, true)) === false ? count($order) : $index;
+
+        return $rank($first) <=> $rank($second) ?: strnatcasecmp($first, $second);
+    }
+
     public static function ownedByCurrentTeam()
     {
         return Environment::whereRelation('project.team', 'id', currentTeam()->id)->orderBy('name');
diff --git a/resources/js/environment-canvas.js b/resources/js/environment-canvas.js
index 3d3472d222..a792bc17b2 100644
--- a/resources/js/environment-canvas.js
+++ b/resources/js/environment-canvas.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // DOM-free: `node --test` imports this file.
 
 import { BOX_GAP, freeSpot, MAX_ZOOM, MIN_ZOOM } from './canvas-core.js';
+import { compareEnvironmentNames } from './environment-order.js';
 
 export const CARD_WIDTH = 260;
 export const COLUMN_GAP = 48;
@@ -130,7 +131,12 @@ const contextGroups = nodes => {
   }
   // Server view: the unmanaged containers group comes first, so it is not lost below many projects.
   const unmanaged = ([, members]) => (members[0]?.type === 'container' ? 0 : 1);
-  return [...groups.entries()].sort((a, b) => unmanaged(a) - unmanaged(b) || a[0].localeCompare(b[0]));
+  // Then by project, then production, staging, and development before the other environments.
+  const project = ([name, members]) => members[0]?.project?.name ?? name;
+  const environment = ([name, members]) => members[0]?.environment?.name ?? name;
+  return [...groups.entries()].sort(
+    (a, b) => unmanaged(a) - unmanaged(b) || project(a).localeCompare(project(b)) || compareEnvironmentNames(environment(a), environment(b)),
+  );
 };
 const byTypeAndName = (a, b) => columnOf(a) - columnOf(b) || String(a.name).localeCompare(String(b.name));
 
@@ -637,7 +643,7 @@ export function statusLabel(status) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Connect and server views: projects of the resources, each with its environments, sorted by name.
+ * Connect and server views: projects of the resources sorted by name, each with its environments in environment order.
  * @returns {{uuid: string, name: string, environments: {uuid: string, name: string}[]}[]}
  */
 export function filterOptions(graph) {
@@ -649,7 +655,7 @@ export function filterOptions(graph) {
   }
   const byName = (a, b) => String(a.name).localeCompare(String(b.name));
   return [...projects.values()]
-    .map(p => ({ uuid: p.uuid, name: p.name, environments: [...p.environments.values()].sort(byName) }))
+    .map(p => ({ uuid: p.uuid, name: p.name, environments: [...p.environments.values()].sort((a, b) => compareEnvironmentNames(a.name, b.name)) }))
     .sort(byName);
 }
 
diff --git a/resources/js/environment-canvas.test.js b/resources/js/environment-canvas.test.js
index 0d2bc1753b..740ec6aa6f 100644
--- a/resources/js/environment-canvas.test.js
+++ b/resources/js/environment-canvas.test.js
@@ -258,6 +258,20 @@ test('server view: one frame per project / environment, and the frames do not ov
   assert.equal(positions.a.y, positions.b.y);
 });
 
+test('groups: production, staging, and development come before the other environments of a project', () => {
+  const env = (id, project, environment) =>
+    srv(id, 'application', `${project} / ${environment}`, { project: { uuid: project, name: project }, environment: { uuid: id, name: environment } });
+  const graph = {
+    layout: 'server',
+    zones: [{ id: 'z1', name: 'web' }],
+    nodes: [env('a', 'Shop', 'deprecated'), env('b', 'Shop', 'development'), env('c', 'Shop', 'production'), env('d', 'Shop', 'qa'), env('e', 'Shop', 'staging'), env('f', 'Blog', 'zeta')],
+    links: [],
+    positions: {},
+  };
+  const frames = groupFrames(graph.nodes, layoutGraph(graph));
+  assert.deepEqual(frames.map(f => f.name), ['Blog / zeta', 'Shop / production', 'Shop / staging', 'Shop / development', 'Shop / deprecated', 'Shop / qa']);
+});
+
 const envNode = (id, type, zone, environment, extra = {}) => srv(id, type, `Shop / ${environment}`, { zone, project: { uuid: 'p' }, environment: { uuid: environment }, ...extra });
 
 test('server view: cards link only to cards of the same environment', () => {
@@ -498,15 +512,16 @@ test('variables view: filter resources by project and environment, keep every va
       node('variable:1', 'variable', 'sources'),
       node('a', 'application', 'resources', { project: shop, environment: { uuid: 'e1', name: 'production' } }),
       node('b', 'application', 'resources', { project: shop, environment: { uuid: 'e2', name: 'staging' } }),
+      node('d', 'application', 'resources', { project: shop, environment: { uuid: 'e4', name: 'deprecated' } }),
       node('c', 'application', 'resources', { project: blog, environment: { uuid: 'e3', name: 'production' } }),
     ],
     links: [{ id: 'l1', source: 'variable:1', target: 'a' }, { id: 'l2', source: 'variable:1', target: 'c' }],
   };
 
-  assert.deepEqual(filterOptions(g).map(p => [p.name, p.environments.map(e => e.name)]), [['Blog', ['production']], ['Shop', ['production', 'staging']]]);
+  assert.deepEqual(filterOptions(g).map(p => [p.name, p.environments.map(e => e.name)]), [['Blog', ['production']], ['Shop', ['production', 'staging', 'deprecated']]]);
   assert.equal(filterGraph(g, {}), g);
   const shopOnly = filterGraph(g, { project: 'p1' });
-  assert.deepEqual(shopOnly.nodes.map(n => n.id), ['variable:1', 'a', 'b']);
+  assert.deepEqual(shopOnly.nodes.map(n => n.id), ['variable:1', 'a', 'b', 'd']);
   assert.deepEqual(shopOnly.links.map(l => l.id), ['l1']);
   assert.deepEqual(filterGraph(g, { environment: 'e2' }).nodes.map(n => n.id), ['variable:1', 'b']);
   assert.deepEqual(filterGraph(g, { environment: 'e2' }).links, []);
diff --git a/resources/js/environment-order.js b/resources/js/environment-order.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b88fb1dffb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/js/environment-order.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+const ORDER = ['production', 'staging', 'development'];
+
+const rank = name => {
+  const index = ORDER.indexOf(String(name).toLowerCase());
+  return index === -1 ? ORDER.length : index;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Sort order of environment names: production, staging, and development first, then the others by name.
+ * Environment::compareNames() has the same order for the project page.
+ */
+export const compareEnvironmentNames = (a, b) => rank(a) - rank(b) || String(a).localeCompare(String(b));
diff --git a/resources/views/livewire/project/show.blade.php b/resources/views/livewire/project/show.blade.php
index 6c74bc3b30..16f4017611 100644
--- a/resources/views/livewire/project/show.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/livewire/project/show.blade.php
@@ -211,13 +211,17 @@
     function projectEnvironments() {
         return {
             search: '',
-            sortBy: 'name-asc',
+            sortBy: 'default',
             sortOpen: false,
             viewMode: @js($this->listView('project', 'grid')),
             page: 1,
             pageSize: 12,
             environments: @js($environmentsJs),
             sortOptions: [{
+                    value: 'default',
+                    label: 'Default'
+                },
+                {
                     value: 'name-asc',
                     label: 'Name A–Z'
                 },
@@ -249,8 +253,12 @@
                         return second.resourceCount - first.resourceCount ||
                             first.name.localeCompare(second.name);
                     }
+                    if (this.sortBy === 'name-asc') {
+                        return first.name.localeCompare(second.name);
+                    }
 
-                    return first.name.localeCompare(second.name);
+                    // Default: the server order (production, staging, development, then by name).
+                    return 0;
                 });
             },
             get totalPages() {
diff --git a/tests/Feature/ProjectEnvironmentOrderTest.php b/tests/Feature/ProjectEnvironmentOrderTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3df1476ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Feature/ProjectEnvironmentOrderTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?php
+
+use App\Livewire\Project\Show as ProjectShow;
+use App\Models\InstanceSettings;
+use App\Models\Project;
+use App\Models\Team;
+use App\Models\User;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue;
+use Livewire\Livewire;
+
+uses(RefreshDatabase::class);
+
+test('project page lists production, staging, and development before the other environments', function () {
+    Queue::fake();
+    InstanceSettings::unguarded(fn () => InstanceSettings::query()->create(['id' => 0]));
+    $user = User::factory()->create();
+    $team = Team::factory()->create();
+    $user->teams()->attach($team, ['role' => 'owner']);
+    $this->actingAs($user);
+    session(['currentTeam' => $team]);
+
+    $project = Project::factory()->create(['team_id' => $team->id]);
+    foreach (['deprecated', 'staging', 'qa', 'development', 'demo'] as $name) {
+        $project->environments()->create(['name' => $name]);
+    }
+
+    Livewire::test(ProjectShow::class, ['project_uuid' => $project->uuid])
+        ->assertViewHas('environmentsJs', fn ($environments) => collect($environments)->pluck('name')->all() === ['production', 'staging', 'development', 'demo', 'deprecated', 'qa']);
+});