The invention belongs to the technical field of research and application of civil engineering materials and relates to a method for determining the fineness modulus of sand by utilizing an image analysis technology. The method comprises the eleven specific steps: sampling, photographing, preprocessing images, calibrating a scale, separating sand grains from the background, dividing the adhered sand grains, treating the sand grains on the image boundary, treating the sand grains with holes, determining the minimum Ferrette diameter, carrying out grain-diameter filtering on the sand grains and calculating the fineness modulus of the sand. The method has the advantages that the image analysis method is adopted for calculating the fineness modulus of the sand for the first time, and the criterion that the volume ratio and the weight ratio is equal is applied, so that the weighing process of the sand is avoided; the minimum Ferrette diameter is adopted as the equivalent grain diameter of the sand which can be sieved, so that the accuracy of determined data is better guaranteed; and the method is novel in design, reliable in principle, simple in operation, scientific in calculation, accurate in data, low in cost and high in automation degree.