The invention relates to an air-cooled refrigerator. The air-cooled refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body, an evaporator, an air return duct assembly and a cooling air duct assembly, wherein an evaporator chamber and a refrigerating chamber are defined in the refrigerator body; the evaporator is arranged in the evaporator chamber and is configured to cool air flow flowing through the evaporator so as to form cooling air flow; the air return duct assembly is configured to guide the air flow in the refrigerating chamber to the evaporator; and the cooling air duct assembly is configured to cool the air return duct assembly through heat exchange by means of the cooling air flow flowing through the cooling air duct assembly. By arranging the cooling air duct assembly, the cooling air flow discharged by the evaporator flows through the cooling air duct assembly so as to cool the air return duct assembly through heat exchange, so that return air is cooled, the internal temperature of an air return duct is below the dew point temperature, air with high humidity recovered from the refrigerating chamber is condensed in the air return duct, the humidity of the air in the air return duct is reduced, the frosting rate of water vapor on the evaporator is reduced, the defrosting cycle time is prolonged, the defrosting frequency is reduced, the energy consumption of the refrigerator is reduced, and the use cost of a user is reduced.