There is disclosed a method for processing a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material in which a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer is exposed imagewise to light and then subjected to processing including at least a color development treatment or a color development treatment followed by a bleach-fixing treatment, the improvement wherein said at least one silver halide emulsion layer is a silver halide emulsion layer in which not less than 80 mole % of the total silver halide in the layer is silver chloride and the pH value of the bleach-fixing solution used in said bleach-fixing treatment is in the range of 4.5 to 6.8.