To provide a method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire that does not cause poor appearance and inferior quality of a product tire by sufficiently suppressing the occurrence of rubber biting, and also can provide a product tire of stable quality by sufficiently suppressing the occurrence of air remaining.

A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire is configured to vulcanize a raw cover by using a sprit mold having upper and lower side metal molds and multiple segment metal molds, and a bladder. The method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire uses the raw cover provided at a shoulder part with a protrusion of 2-4 mm in height as a raw cover. The width of the protrusion is 30% or more of the width of a shoulder block in the method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire. The protrusion is provided at the position opposed to a projecting section for forming a shoulder lug groove provided at the segment metal molds in the method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire.