The invention discloses a solar photovoltaic power station design method and system. The method comprises the following steps of: S1, analyzing a solar resource of a place where a substation is located, carrying out month-by-month horizontal plane-inclined plane radiation quantity conversion calculation and carrying out optimization design on a photovoltaic module inclination angle; S2, determining technical indexes of photovoltaic modules and inverters according to a design requirement, and carrying out optimization calculation on series-parallel number of the photovoltaic modules; S3, determining photovoltaic module arrangement according to design and calculation results in the steps S1 and S2, and carrying out optimization calculation on photovoltaic array arrangement; and S4, carrying out photovoltaic power station cable design, array arrangement and site plane design on the photovoltaic array arrangement optimization calculation result obtained in the step S3. The system corresponds to the method. According to the method and system, the photovoltaic power station design calculated amount can be remarkably decreased and the calculation error probability can be decreased; and the method and system are operated on the basis of Excel software, so that the method and system are simple to calculate and operate, low in cost, intuitional, easy to lean and easy to popularize.