The invention discloses a rapid two-dimensional spectral-peak searching method suitable for engineering realization. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, carrying out two-dimensional global search for a spatial spectrogram composed of a noise subspace and antenna array flow pattern vectors, and obtaining global search spectral-peak points; 2, carrying out fine search near the global search spectral-peak points, and obtaining spectral-peak candidate points; 3, classifying the spectral-peak candidate points, and finding real spectral-peak points corresponding to the number of signals; and 4, and utilizing false spectral peak information around a real spectral peak, and finally using a weighted value of the real spectral peak and false spectral peaks around the real spectral peak as an estimated value of an incoming wave direction. Aiming at using a 2D-MUSIC algorithm to estimate the direction of arrival of incident signals, a two-dimensional spectral-peak searching process occupies most of the time of the whole algorithm so as not to obtain the direction of arrival of the signals in real time or on time. According to the method disclosed by the invention, on the basis of characteristic analysis of the spatial spectrogram, a data cluster and grading searching method is used to accelerate the spectral-peak searching process and the precision of search results are ensured.