Room‐temperature photoconductivity measurements were carried out on metalorganic chemical vapor deposition grown CdTe‐ZnTe superlattices with a periodicity of 30–80 A˚. The threshold of the photoconductivity measurements varied with the size of the well. Transition of the electron to then=1 level in the conduction band was observed in all samples; the transition to then=2 level was found for the superlattices with well width exceeding 25 A˚. These findings agree very well with room‐temperature absorption measurements performed on the same superlattices and with model calculations which were based on the Kronig–Penney model with Bastard’s boundary conditions.