The dataset named SEBAL evapotranspiration in China (SEBAL ET) characterized the daily evapotranspiration (in millimeter) of vegetation in China from 2001 to 2018, the spatial resolution is 1 km × 1km and the temporal resolution is 1 day with the coordinate system of GCS_WGS_1984. The products were generated using Surface Energy Balance Algorithm of Land (SEBAL) and multi-sources remote sensing data, including MOD43A1 daily surface albedo, MOD11A1 daily surface temperature and MOD13 vegetation indices (obtained from NASA: https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/search/), the meteorological data obtained from GMAO (https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/highlights/2013-2015.php), the input variables were all aggregated of resampled to 1 km × 1km. The products were evaluated using the eight flux towers observation data for point validation and water balance method for regional validation and showed R value of 0.79 and 0.98, respectively, which indicated the products have a great performance. SEBAL ET can be used for several geoscience studies, especially for global change, water resources mangement and agricultural drought monitoring, etc.