The invention discloses a synthesis method of clofarabine, which comprises the following steps of: 1) dissolving a chemical compound shown as Formula (I) in dichloromethane, adding a hydrogen bromide acetic acid solution for reaction, washing, separating an organic phase, drying, filtering, leaving a filtrate for future use, dissolving 2-chlorine adenine in acetonitrile, adding potassium tert-butoxide, calcium hydride and the above filtrate for reaction, filtering, washing with dichloromethane, reducing pressure, condensing, evaporating to dryness, adding butyl acetate, stirring, dropwise adding methyl tertiary butyl ether, stirring for crystallization, filtering, washing a filter cake with methyl tertiary butyl ether, drying to obtain a yellow solid, and 2) adding the yellow solid into a mixed solution of methanol and sodium methoxide, regulating pH (potential of hydrogen) to 6-6.5, filtering, washing a filter cake with methanol, obtaining a clofarabine crude product, adding absolute ethyl alcohol, stirring, heating to backflow, dissolving, filtering, washing a filter cake with alcohol, performing vacuum drying, and obtaining a target product. The method is simple in reaction operation, easy to control, high in yield and suitable for industrial production.