A surface-coated cutting tool comprising: a tool body made of a tungsten carbide-based cemented carbide, a titanium carbonitride-based cermet or a cubic boron nitride sintered material; and a hard coating layer provided on a surface of the tool body, the hard coating layer being made of an alternate laminate structure, in which at least each of an A layer and a B layer is laminated alternately, and having a total thickness of 0.5-3.0 μm, wherein (a) the A layer is a complex nitride layer of Ti and Al satisfying a compositional formula: (Ti l-z Al z )N, 0.4 ≤ z ≤ 0.7, z being a content ratio of Al in an atomic ratio, (b) the B layer is a complex nitride layer of Cr, Al, and M satisfying a compositional formula: (Cr l-x-y Al x M y )N, 0.03 ≤ x ≤ 0.4 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 0.05, x being a content ratio of Al in an atomic ratio, y being a total content ratio of an component M in an atomic ratio, and component M being one or more elements selected from: B, Si, and 4a, 5a, and 6a family elements of the periodic table except for Cr, (c) when an average layer thickness of the A layer is tA and an average layer thickness of the B layer is tB, a value of a ratio tB/tA of the average layer thickness of the B layer with respect to the average layer thickness of the A layer satisfies 0.67 to 2.0, (d) a lattice constant a(Å) of crystal grains that constitute the hard coating layer made of the A layer and the B layer calculated from a diffraction peak angle of a plane obtained by X-ray diffraction of the entire hard coating layer made of the A layer and the B layer satisfies 4.10 ≤ a ≤ 4.20, and (e) when an X-ray diffraction peak intensity of the plane is 1 and an X-ray diffraction peak intensity of a plane is I , each of 1 and I being obtained by the X-ray diffraction of the entire hard coating layer made of the A layer and the B layer, 2.0 ≤ I /I ≤ 10 is satisfied. wherein (a) the A layer is a complex nitride layer of Ti and Al satisfying a compositional formula: (Ti l-z Al z )N, 0.4 ≤ z ≤ 0.7, z being a content ratio of Al in an atomic ratio, (b) the B layer is a complex nitride layer of Cr, Al, and M satisfying a compositional formula: (Cr l-x-y Al x M y )N, 0.03 ≤ x ≤ 0.4 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 0.05, x being a content ratio of Al in an atomic ratio, y being a total content ratio of an component M in an atomic ratio, and component M being one or more elements selected from: B, Si, and 4a, 5a, and 6a family elements of the periodic table except for Cr, (c) when an average layer thickness of the A layer is tA and an average layer thickness of the B layer is tB, a value of a ratio tB/tA of the average layer thickness of the B layer with respect to the average layer thickness of the A layer satisfies 0.67 to 2.0, (d) a lattice constant a(Å) of crystal grains that constitute the hard coating layer made of the A layer and the B layer calculated from a diffraction peak angle of a plane obtained by X-ray diffraction of the entire hard coating layer made of the A layer and the B layer satisfies 4.10 ≤ a ≤ 4.20, and (e) when an X-ray diffraction peak intensity of the plane is 1 and an X-ray diffraction peak intensity of a plane is I , each of 1 and I being obtained by the X-ray diffraction of the entire hard coating layer made of the A layer and the B layer, 2.0 ≤ I /I ≤ 10 is satisfied. <EOS>