The invention discloses a surrounding vehicle behavior identification method based on V2V communication and an HMM-GBDT hybrid model and belongs to the intelligent vehicle driving field. The method comprises steps that a, an offline training link, typical surrounding vehicle behaviors are concluded and divided, for each type of typical behaviors, based on real vehicle platform, the driving information of the surrounding vehicles under real traffic scenarios is collected, trajectory characteristic data is extracted, and parameter learning for the HMM-GBDT hybrid model is carried out. And b, anonline detection link, the acquired self driving information of a tracked target vehicle is transmitted to a driver in real time, a new characteristic observation sequence is constructed by the driverin combination with trajectory characteristic data of two vehicles, and the trained HMM-GBDT hybrid model is utilized to identify belonging behavior modes of the tracked vehicles. The method is advantaged in that the historical trajectory characteristics of vehicle are acquired in a passive information reception mode, influence of the traffic status and environmental factors on active detection is avoided, the method is not dependent on a fixed base station in a common vehicle network system, instant information transmission is guaranteed, and the target vehicle behaviors can be accurately identified.