The invention belongs to the technical field of vehicle battery heat dissipation, and discloses an automobile fuel cell cold start control system and method, and the system comprises an air compressor, an intercooler, a humidifier, a fuel cell stack, a water pump, a three-way control valve, a heater, a radiator, a throttle valve, a first valve, a second valve, a third valve, and a controller. An air heating path is formed by the air compressor, the intercooler, the humidifier, the fuel cell stack, the humidifier and the throttle valve; the water pump, three-way control valve, the heater, the intercooler, the second valve, the fuel cell stack, and the water pump form a cooling liquid heating loop; the water pump, the three-way valve, the radiator, the third valve, the fuel cell stack, and the water pump forms a first cooling liquid radiating loop; the water pump, the three-way control valve, the radiator, the first valve, and the water pump form a second cooling liquid radiating loop. Under a low-temperature condition, the fuel cell can be rapidly started under the low-temperature condition; under the condition of high temperature, the intercooler and the fuel cell stack are cooled by one radiator.