diff --git a/hugolib/site_render.go b/hugolib/site_render.go
index 9ade951df..34f288da2 100644
--- a/hugolib/site_render.go
+++ b/hugolib/site_render.go
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ type siteRenderContext struct {
 	sitesOutIdx int
 
 	// Zero based index of the output formats configured within a Site.
-	// Note that these outputs are sorted, so CSS will come before HTML.
+	// Note that these outputs are sorted.
 	outIdx int
 
 	multihost bool
diff --git a/hugolib/sitemap_test.go b/hugolib/sitemap_test.go
index cab13d356..5aba6f09d 100644
--- a/hugolib/sitemap_test.go
+++ b/hugolib/sitemap_test.go
@@ -100,3 +100,22 @@ func TestParseSitemap(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 }
+
+// https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5910
+func TestSitemapOutputFormats(t *testing.T) {
+
+	b := newTestSitesBuilder(t).WithSimpleConfigFile()
+
+	b.WithContent("blog/html-amp.md", `
+---
+Title: AMP and HTML
+outputs: [ "html", "amp" ]
+---
+
+`)
+
+	b.Build(BuildCfg{})
+
+	// Should link to the HTML version.
+	b.AssertFileContent("public/sitemap.xml", " <loc>http://example.com/blog/html-amp/</loc>")
+}
diff --git a/output/outputFormat.go b/output/outputFormat.go
index 9f371f856..c9c108ac5 100644
--- a/output/outputFormat.go
+++ b/output/outputFormat.go
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ type Format struct {
 	// example. AMP would, however, be a good example of an output format where this
 	// behaviour is wanted.
 	Permalinkable bool `json:"permalinkable"`
+
+	// Setting this to a non-zero value will be used as the first sort criteria.
+	Weight int `json:"weight"`
 }
 
 // An ordered list of built-in output formats.
@@ -125,6 +128,10 @@ var (
 		Rel:           "canonical",
 		IsHTML:        true,
 		Permalinkable: true,
+
+		// Weight will be used as first sort criteria. HTML will, by default,
+		// be rendered first, but set it to 10 so it's easy to put one above it.
+		Weight: 10,
 	}
 
 	JSONFormat = Format{
@@ -180,9 +187,21 @@ func init() {
 // Formats is a slice of Format.
 type Formats []Format
 
-func (formats Formats) Len() int           { return len(formats) }
-func (formats Formats) Swap(i, j int)      { formats[i], formats[j] = formats[j], formats[i] }
-func (formats Formats) Less(i, j int) bool { return formats[i].Name < formats[j].Name }
+func (formats Formats) Len() int      { return len(formats) }
+func (formats Formats) Swap(i, j int) { formats[i], formats[j] = formats[j], formats[i] }
+func (formats Formats) Less(i, j int) bool {
+	fi, fj := formats[i], formats[j]
+	if fi.Weight == fj.Weight {
+		return fi.Name < fj.Name
+	}
+
+	if fj.Weight == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	return fi.Weight > 0 && fi.Weight < fj.Weight
+
+}
 
 // GetBySuffix gets a output format given as suffix, e.g. "html".
 // It will return false if no format could be found, or if the suffix given
diff --git a/output/outputFormat_test.go b/output/outputFormat_test.go
index 6bd4dda5b..3d2fa5d17 100644
--- a/output/outputFormat_test.go
+++ b/output/outputFormat_test.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ package output
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"sort"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/media"
@@ -225,3 +226,25 @@ func TestDecodeFormats(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestSort(t *testing.T) {
+	assert := require.New(t)
+	assert.Equal("HTML", DefaultFormats[0].Name)
+	assert.Equal("AMP", DefaultFormats[1].Name)
+
+	json := JSONFormat
+	json.Weight = 1
+
+	formats := Formats{
+		AMPFormat,
+		HTMLFormat,
+		json,
+	}
+
+	sort.Sort(formats)
+
+	assert.Equal("JSON", formats[0].Name)
+	assert.Equal("HTML", formats[1].Name)
+	assert.Equal("AMP", formats[2].Name)
+
+}