The invention discloses a method for in-situ full-field early detection of stainless steel pitting. The method comprises the following steps of 1, carrying out packaging of a stainless steel sample and carrying out mechanical polishing of a working face of the stainless steel sample, 2, preparing an experimental soak solution, and 3, putting a beaker containing the experimental soak solution obtained by the step 2 into a constant-temperature water bath, finishing detection temperature setting, putting the stainless steel sample treated by the step 1 into the beaker in a way that the working face of the stainless steel sample is upward, simultaneously, carrying out an in-situ full-field observation process on the surface of the stainless steel sample by a long-distance microscope and a digital camera, wherein when a display shows that blue spots appear on the surface of the stainless steel sample, pitting occurs, and recording the time between putting-in and taking-out of the stainless steel sample. The method can realize rapid in-situ detection of stainless steel pitting. Pitting information which comprises stainless steel pitting positions, stainless steel pitting number, stainless steel pitting areas and stainless steel pitting occurrence time and can be detected by the method has important academic values and practical application values.