The invention relates to a vibration quality control technology in concrete pouring construction of hydraulic engineering, in particular to an intelligent detection method for vibration effective depth. The intelligent detection method comprises the following main steps that sensors are adopted to collect real-time operation information of a vibrating machine/beam in an operation process, the real-time operation information, including the insertion depth of the vibrating machine/beam, the slant angle of the vibrating beam, and the switching state of the vibrating beam, is monitored in real time, through comprehensive analysis, the effective insertion depth of the vibrating machine/beam is accurately obtained, the effective vibrating time of the vibrating machine/beam is counted, a positioning module is adopted to obtain the operating coordinates of the vibrating machine/beam, so that the vibration quality of a concrete bin face is comprehensively monitored. The intelligent detection method for the vibration effective depth has the beneficial effects that the implementation mode is simple, manual intervention is not needed, the error caused by artificial judgment is solved, the vibrating monitoring process is enabled to be intelligent, and the obtained data is high in precision and stable and reliable. The intelligent detection method is particularly applicable to the large volume concrete vibration quality control of the hydraulic engineering.