The invention discloses a preparation method of clobetasol and the preparation method of clobetasol propionate. The preparation method of the clobetasol comprises the following steps: by taking a compound I, namely 1,4,9(11)-triene androstane-3,17-diketone as an initial raw material, performing a methylation reaction, a cyan substitution reaction, a siloxy protection reaction, an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction, a bromoepoxy reaction and a fluorination reaction to prepare a compound VII which is clobetasol. The compound VII is subjected to a propyl esterification reaction to prepare a compound VIII which is clobetasol propionate. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, since relatively basic initial raw materials which are cheap are used, each step of reaction is relatively easy to implement and high yield is achieved; the operation of multi-step protection and deprotection is simplified; moreover, 21 sites of fluorine are directly arranged in one step during arrangement of a side chain, and multiple steps of reaction for arranging the 21 sites of fluorine in the prior art are directly avoided, so that the synthetic route is greatly shortened, the total yield is increased, the product quality is improved and the production cost is greatly lowered.