diff --git a/docs/src/index.rst b/docs/src/index.rst
index 80aa696ba1..8c3455aba9 100644
--- a/docs/src/index.rst
+++ b/docs/src/index.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .. _iris_docs:
 
-Iris Documentation
-==================
+Iris |version|
+========================
 
 **A powerful, format-agnostic, community-driven Python package for analysing
 and visualising Earth science data.**