To provide an aluminum wheel capable of being designed ornamentally with a high degree of freedom and suppressing the weight to the minimum necessary to give proper strength at all times.

The aluminum wheel for an automobile is composed of an aluminum body part 1 and a cover as an ornamental part fixed removably to the aluminum body part. The aluminum body part 1 is equipped with a rim part 2 and a disc part 6 and gives a desired strength to the aluminum wheel. The cover is composed of a cover body 10 having substantially a disc shape covering the front face of the aluminum body part 1 and fixing means installed on the rear surface of the cover body at a certain spacing in the circumferential direction.