The invention provides a regional division method for satellite observation. The method comprises the follow steps of: step 1, determining the effective region of a target region; step 2, determining a maximum observation lateral swinging angle and a minimum observation lateral swinging angle corresponding to the effective region; step 3, making a current lateral swinging angle equal to the minimum observation lateral swinging angle, and emptying a result sub region set; step 4, adding the current lateral swinging angle into the result sub region set; step 5, adding a set granularity angle to the current lateral swinging angle; step 6, turning to step 4 if the sum of the current lateral swinging angle and the granularity angle is smaller than the maximum observation lateral swinging angle, and otherwise, turning to step 7; and step 7, adding the current lateral swinging angle into the result sub region set so that the effective region is divided into observation strip belts corresponding to each lateral swinging angle in the result sub region set. The regional division method overcomes the limitation of the Gaussian projection on task longitude differences, the accuracy is higher, and in addition, the regional division method is suitable for the target region observation by a plurality of satellites.