An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for producing chlorine with improved efficiency, which can remove impurities other than hydrogen chloride contained in a raw material gas and can recover unreacted hydrogen chloride after an oxidation reaction efficiently. The method of the present invention for producing chlorine includes an oxidation step of oxidizing hydrogen chloride in a raw material gas containing hydrogen chloride and impurities with oxygen, thereby obtaining a gas containing chlorine, and an absorption step of bringing the gas containing chlorine obtained in the oxidation step into contact with water or aqueous hydrochloric acid to form a solution containing hydrogen chloride and water as main components, thereby recovering unreacted hydrogen chloride and simultaneously obtaining a gas containing chlorine and oxygen as main components, wherein the above-mentioned raw material gas contains a gas obtained in at least one step of a first stripping step and a second stripping step, and the above-mentioned raw material gas passes through a step of removing moisture and a step of performing compression after at least one step of the first stripping step and the second stripping step and before being subjected to the oxidation step.