The invention discloses a height control method and a height control system for an aerial vehicle. The height control method comprises the steps of 1), arranging a radar, an accelerometer, a barometer and a GPS module in the aerial vehicle; 2), in the flight process of the aerial vehicle, if the aerial vehicle is in an effective detecting range of the radar, the accelerometer, the barometer and the GPS module and performing fusion, performing fusion on the fused result and information detected by the radar; otherwise, performing data fusion processing based on the accelerometer, the barometer and the GPS module; and obtaining a current height, a current vertical speed and a current vertical acceleration; and 3), performing height control on the aerial vehicle according to the obtained current height, the current vertical speed and the current vertical acceleration. The height control system comprises a detecting module, an information fusion module and a height control module. The height control method and the height control system have advantages of simple control realization, high control precision, high stability, high adaptability, etc.