The invention discloses a rotating type multi-station pad printing machine which comprises a machine table, a rotary table conveying device located on the machine table, a feeding conveying unit, a feeding adsorption unit, a pad printing assembly, a detecting unit, a discharging adsorption unit, a discharging conveying unit and a glue head cleaning assembly, wherein the feeding conveying unit, the feeding adsorption unit, the pad printing assembly, the detecting unit and the discharging adsorption unit are arranged around the rotary table conveying device, the discharging conveying unit is in butt joint with the discharging adsorption unit, and the glue head cleaning assembly is located beside the pad transfer assembly. According to the rotating type multi-station pad printing machine, a series of full-automatic actions such as automatic feeding, automatic pad printing, automatic detecting, automatic discharging and automatic glue head cleaning can be achieved, and the production efficiency is high; due to the fact that a bearing plate provided with adhesive tape is moved to the position below a glue head through a driving part so that the work of cleaning the glue head can be completed during the vertical movement of the glue head, time is saved, the pad printing quality can also be ensured, and pad printing patterns can be prevented from being blurred.