To screen cultivar resources of traditional autumn chrysanthemum ［Chrysanthemum × morifolium (Ramat.) Hemsl.］suitable for cut-flower production, 16 traits related to plant architecture traits, leaf traits, flower traits, and product and production traits of 40 traditional autumn chrysanthemum cultivars were observed and analyzed, on the basis, the test traditional autumn chrysanthemum cultivars were comprehensively evaluated by using the methods of analytic hierarchy process and K-means cluster analysis. The results show that there are relatively large differences in different traits among the test traditional autumn chrysanthemum cultivars, and the coefficients of variation are 11.8%-147.6%. The weights of internode length, flower height-to-diameter ratio, ray floret number, flower diameter, and flower color and lightness relative to the target layer are 0.138 4, 0.133 0, 0.115 8, 0.093 0, and 0.085 7, respectively, which are obviously higher than those of the other traits. The 40 traditional autumn chrysanthemum cultivars can be divided into four grades, namely excellent, good, medium, and poor. Among them, the excellent grade has the fewest cultivars, with only 3 cultivars, which are ‘Moling-174’, ‘Longdu Baiyu’, and ‘Moling-179’; the good grade has the most cultivars, with 17 cultivars; the medium and poor grades have relatively abundant cultivars, with 11 and 9 cultivars, respectively. The three preferred cultivars screened by the comprehensive evaluation system possess the characteristics of tall and compact plants, robust stems, upright leaves, full flower forms, pure and bright flower color, strong rooting ability of cuttings, long vase life, and good resistance, and these cultivars are suitable for cut-flower production.