A circuit board includes a substrate, a nonconductive resin layer selectively formed on the substrate and containing fine metal particles, and a conductive metal layer formed on the resin layer, in contact with the fine metal particles which are exposed from the resin layer. A surface of the resin layer has irregularities, in an interface between the resin layer and the conductive metal layer. In a roughness curve of a section of the resin layer, in a case of an wavelength (λc) at the boundary of a roughness component and a waviness component is 1 μm, a maximum height (Rz) per reference length (1r) of 1 μm is 20 nm to 500 nm.