The invention provides a monitoring method for electrical endurance of an arc-extinguishing chamber of a circuit breaker and a determination method for initial time of an arcing current, wherein the method have advantages of good adaptability, simple operation and precise determination. According to the invention, when an arc-extinguishing chamber is driven by a switchgear drive system to make motion, a force value of the drive system is reduced suddenly at time of separation of a static contact and a moving contact of the arc-extinguishing chamber, wherein the sudden reduction time of the force value is the separation starting time of the arc-extinguishing chamber. Therefore, the sudden reduction time of the force value can reflect the separation starting time of the arc-extinguishing chamber. However, because an intelligent electronic device needs to carry out amplification, processing, and analyses on the collected force signal, certain hardware and software delay exists, the sudden reduction time of the force value of intelligent electronic calculation can be corrected by using an actual breaking signal, thereby determining the hardware and software delay. On the basis of real-time monitoring and recording on a force value signal and a line current signal of the drive system of the circuit breaker, the initial arcing time, arcing duration time, and arcing current value during the cut-off process of the circuit breaker are determined.