The invention provides a vehicle color recognition method and device, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a vehicle color recognition region comprising a vehicle image from a vehicle sample image; dividing the vehicle color recognition region into eight subregions in the shape of the Chinese character Mi, and extracting the histogram of each subregion; enabling the statistical information represented by the histograms as a color feature input classifier, so as to obtain a color region result of the color recognition region. Because the histograms at least comprises a {H, S} two-dimensional histogram and an Sqrt(S*V) histogram, the method is good in color distinguishing characteristics, wherein the {H, S} two-dimensional histogram gives consideration to hue and saturation, and the Sqrt(S*V) histogram gives consideration to the saturation and brightness. Meanwhile, the method also obtains a part of position information besides the color information of the histogram of all subregions obtained through the Mi-shaped dividing. Therefore, the method can reduce the impact on color recognition from illumination change and the interference caused by posture changes of a vehicle, vehicle windows and the ground, and improves the accuracy of vehicle color recognition.