The invention relates to a hybrid automatic gain control device for a multimode system, which comprises a multimode system control module, a power calculation module, a DATT(digital attenuator) control module, a delay module, a digital down converter module and a gain compensation module, wherein the multimode system control module is used for initializing a mode control signal and a gain compensation control signal; the power calculation module is used for calculating a power of A / D (Analog to Digital) converter data according to the mode control signal; the DATT control module is used for calculating according to the input power to obtain a DATT control signal and regulating an attenuation stepping value of a DATT; the delay module is used for carrying out delay processing on the attenuation stepping value; the digital down converter module is used for processing the A / D converter data to obtain a plurality of single-mode digital signals; and the gain compensation module is used for respectively carrying out gain compensation processing on the single-mode digital signals by using the attenuation stepping value subjected to delay processing according to the gain compensation control signal. The invention also provides a hybrid automatic gain control method. By the hybrid automatic gain control method and the hybrid automatic gain control device, the sensitivity can be prevented from being influenced by the saturation of an ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) or an excessively low power caused by the rapid variation of an uplink signal power, and higher average signal to noise ratio performance is obtained.