A magneto-optical recording medium is provided with at least: a recording layer, made of a perpendicular magnetization film, in which magnetized information is recorded in the form of a perpendicular direction of magnetization; a magnetic flux generating layer, made of a perpendicular magnetization film, which is exchange-coupled with the recording layer; and a read-out layer, having a perpendicular magnetization at a predetermined temperature or higher temperatures than the predetermined temperature, which copies the magnetized information of the recording layer by magneto-static coupling with the magnetic flux generating layer and the recording layer, wherein the magnetic flux generating layer is a magnetic film having a lower Curie temperature than that of the recording layer and having a larger total magnetization than that of the recording layer at a temperature at which the read-out layer has a perpendicular magnetization.