In the title racemic Schiff base ligand, C20H20Cl2N2, which was prepared by the condensation of 2-chloro-benzaldehyde and cyclo-hexane-1,2-di-amine, the cyclo-hexane ring adopts a chair conformation and the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings of the 2-chloro-phenyl substituent groups is 62.52 (8)°. In the structure, there are two short intra-molecular methine C-H⋯Cl inter-actions [C⋯Cl = 3.066 (2) and 3.076 (3) Å], and in the crystal there are also weak inter-molecular aromatic C-H⋯Cl [3.464 (3), 3.553 (3) and 3.600 (3) Å] and Cl⋯Cl [3.557 (3) and 3.891 (3) Å] contacts.