The invention discloses a method for processing city household garbage leachate. Aiming at the garbage leachate's characteristics of high ammonia nitrogen content and difficult biodegradation, people develop the processing method by combining and optimizing the following technologies: lime pretreatment, gas-film acid absorption, high efficient multi-grade AO biochemical treatment, and modified carbon absorption. The processing method comprises the following steps: subjecting the garbage leachate to a foam separation process so as to reduce the grease and surfactant content in the garbage leachate; adding lime into the garbage leachate so as to adjust the pH value of the garbage leachate and convert the ammonia nitrogen into a free state; subjecting the garbage leachate to processes of micro-filtration and ultrafiltration so as to eliminate macromolecular organic substances, then subjecting the garbage leachate to a gas-film acid absorption treatment so as to effectively eliminate the nitrogen ammonia with a high concentration in the garbage leachate to meet the requirements of biochemical treatment, subjecting the garbage leachate to go through an AO biochemical treatment system so as to further eliminate the pollutants such as total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, COD, BOD, and the like in the garbage leachate, so that after the processes mentioned above, only organic matters that are difficult to degrade and soluble are left in the garbage leachate, adopting modified carbon as an absorbent and a counter-current multi-grade absorption technology to effectively eliminate the organic matters difficult to degrade in the garbage leachate to make the garbage leachate meet the national discharging standard, and finally discharging the qualified garbage leachate.