The invention discloses an o-chlorobenzoic acid synthesis method which comprises the following steps: adding an o-chlorobenzoic acid mixed solution and o-chlorotoluene into a reactor, introducing oxygen after liquid oxygen vaporization, detecting the pressure in the reactor through an air pressure detection instrument, reacting at 125-180 DEG C after the pressure in the reactor meets the requirement, condensing and layering o-chlorotoluene steam through a condenser and a water separator, removing water, and refluxing the o-chlorotoluene into the reactor, and discharging and passing through subsequent treatment equipment when the content of the o-chlorobenzoic acid reaches 98.5 percent, wherein the process flow is short, the yield is high, the cost is low, the environmental pollution is small, pure oxygen replaces air, the reaction speed is high, and no waste gas is discharged basically; and the reaction does not need a solvent, a large amount of wastewater generated by a diazotization method and a chlorination hydrolysis method is avoided, the oxidation process is greatly improved, the reaction conversion rate is high, the selectivity is good, and the crude product content is high.