The invention discloses a method for synthesizing sodium type zeolite from fly ash and active carbon. The method comprises the following steps: 1, crushing: carrying out ball milling on the fly ash, and sieving the ball-milled fly ash for later use; 2, calcining: calcining the fly ash in a muffle furnace, taking out the calcined fly ash, and cooling the fly ash; 3, removing iron: mixing the fly ash with a hydrochloric acid solution, heating and stirring the obtained mixture, filtering the heated and stirred mixture, washing the filtered mixture with water until neutrality, and drying the washed mixture for later use; 4, ageing: uniformly mixing the fly ash with sodium carbonate, calcining the obtained mixture in the muffle furnace, taking out the calcined mixture, cooling the mixture, and carrying out fine grinding on the cooled mixture; 5, adding active carbon: adding the active carbon to the fly ash, and mixing to obtain a mixture for later use; 6, crystallizing: mixing the mixture obtained in step 5 with a sodium hydroxide solution, and stirring and ageing the obtained mixture at room temperature; and 7, washing and drying: placing the mixture obtained in step 6 in a reaction kettle, heating and crystallizing the mixture, washing the crystallized mixture with water, and drying the washed mixture to prepare the sodium type zeolite. The sodium type zeolite synthesized in the invention has the advantages of large surface area, strong adsorption ability, increased pore volume and large cation exchange amount.