A symbol timing method for a multi-carrier system is provided, including: receiving an input symbol; executing a correlation operation by using a first summation window with a size smaller than a duplicated data to generate a first characteristic signal; determining a first search region according to a first predetermined threshold and the first characteristic signal and searching a local peak value in the first search region; locating a right edge point of the first characteristic signal according to a difference value and the local peak value; obtaining a coarse symbol timing position for a following input symbol according to a predetermined movement and the right edge point; and outputting the coarse symbol timing position to a signal transformation module, wherein signal transformation is executed by the signal transformation module according to the coarse symbol timing position.