Provided is a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display apparatus that includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels each including two or more types of sub-pixels, in which the pixels are arranged in a display area of the substrate, and, among the sub-pixels, one type of sub-pixels are specified sub-pixels provided at certain intervals. The specified sub-pixels are formed by selectively forming the (2n-1)th specified sub-pixels (wherein n represents an integer of 1 or more) numbered from a side end of the display area using a mask having openings at positions corresponding to the (2n-1)th specified sub-pixels numbered from the side end, and selectively forming the (2n)th specified sub-pixels numbered from the side end using a mask having openings at positions corresponding to the (2n)th specified sub-pixels numbered from the side end.