The invention relates to a tellurium dioxide purification method which comprises the following steps: 1, performing alkaline leaching; 2, neutralizing, 3, washing with water; and 4, drying, wherein an impurity removal agent A is added in the alkaline leaching process, and an impurity removal agent B is added in the neutralizing process of an alkaline leaching filtrate; the impurity removal agent A added in the alkaline leaching process is ferrous sulfate heptahydrate, and the impurity removal agent B added in the neutralizing process is EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) complexing agent; and a small amount of sodium sulfide is added in the alkaline leaching process to remove lead in the solution to ensure that no free sulfide ions exist in the solution. A precipitating impurity removal method, a complexing impurity removal method and a washing impurity removal method are organically combined, so that the content of impurity elements (such as selenium, lead, bismuth, copper, arsenium, stibium, tin, iron and the like) in the tellurium dioxide product can be directly and effectively lowered, the main components of the tellurium dioxide product are increased, the content of the main components of the tellurium dioxide product obtained after the processing steps is higher than 99.9%, and the whiteness is favorable.