The invention belongs to the field of thermal environment analysis of a floating device, in particular to a method for estimating radiant thermal environment characteristics of the floating device. The method comprises the steps of calculating an outer atmospheric boundary radiation intensity Isun; calculating the intensity of direct solar radiation Id, 0; calculating the atmospheric transmittancetau atm, 0, tau atm, 0=Id, 0/Isun; calculating the atmospheric transmittance tau atm at the height H according to the atmospheric transmittance tau atm at the surface, 0; according to the atmospherictransmittance tau atm at H and the outer boundary radiation intensity Isun, determining the direct solar radiation intensity Id at H, Id=Isun*tau atm; calculating the atmospheric transmittance tau IR, atm of surface long wave radiation at altitude H; determining the surface temperature Tground, and determining the surface long-wave radiation intensity according to the surface long-wave radiationtransmittance and emissivity and Boltzmann law. The invention estimates the radiant heat environment characteristic parameters at different altitudes H of the floating device released from the targetsite according to the less measured data, reduces the error of the calculation of the thermal characteristics of the floating device caused by the altitude and the geographical environment, and has guiding significance in the aspects of the thermal design of the floating device, skin material selection, flight test safety and the like.