It is convenient and time saving to analyze pentachlorophenol (PCP) in water by purge and trap concentrator coupled to gas chromatography that avoids employing a great deal of organic solvent: In this paper, the appropriate purge and trap conditions of PCP are determined: the trapped sorbent is TenaxGC; the purge gas is pure nitrogen and purge flow is 40ml/min; the purge time is 30min. A series of standard PCP water samples 5, 10, 50, 100, 200,400, 800, 1000ppb are analyzed in order to obtain standard curve, and the linear regressive equation obtained is Y=109.65X-687.72, which correlation coefficient r is 0.9949. The precision of the method is determined with 0.5ppb PCP water sample, and the standard deviation measured is 3%. The detection limit for PCP is 0.2ppb.