A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes a hard layer. The hard layer includes a plurality of crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. When the angle of intersection between the normal direction to (111) plane that is a crystal plane of the crystal grain and the normal direction to the surface of the base material is measured using an EBSD system for a cross section of the hard layer that is parallel to the normal direction of the surface of the base material, a proportion A of the crystal grains having the angle of intersection of 0 degree or more to less than 20 degrees is 50% or more. With respect to the boundaries of the crystal grains, the length of £3 grain boundaries is less than 50% of the length of £3-29 grain boundaries. The crystal grain has a layered structure in which a first layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of Al x Ti 1-x and a second layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of Al y Ti 1-y are alternately stacked. The total thickness of the first layer and the second layer adjacent to each other is 3 nm or more and 40 nm or less.