The invention provides a diagonal flow pump. The diagonal flow pump comprises a pump shaft, an inlet section, a cylindrical outer barrel and a bent pipe section, wherein the pump shaft penetrates through the cylindrical outer barrel and the bent pipe section, blades are mounted on the pump shaft, an inner cavity wall surface of the inlet section comprises an inlet chamber wall surface and a rotating wheel chamber wall surface, the inlet chamber wall surface is a conical surface, the rotating wheel chamber wall surface is an arc surface, the rotating wheel chamber wall surface is tangential with the inner wall surface of the cylindrical outer barrel, the blades are located in a rotating wheel chamber of the inlet section, and an annular groove is formed in the junction position of the inlet chamber wall surface and the rotating wheel chamber wall surface. The diagonal flow pump can weaken the strength of the blade-tip leakage flow at an inlet and reduce the influence of the blade-tip leakage flow to flowing inside an impeller, the performance of the diagonal flow pump is improved, appearance of hump zones is effectively inhibited, and the running stability of the diagonal flow pump is improved.