The invention discloses an electromagnetic vector array based angle estimation method for metric-wave radar. The method is realized through adopting the following steps: (1), receiving radar return through adopting the electromagnetic vector array, and mixing the radar return to a base band for discrete sampling; (2), building a second-order statistical matrix through data obtained from the discrete sampling; (3), performing singular value resolving for the second-order statistical matrix, so as to obtain a left signal characteristic matrix; (4), building a pencil of matrix through utilizing the left signal characteristic matrix; (5), performing extended-feature value resolving for the pencil of matrix, so as to obtain an extended-feature vector matrix, an extended-feature value matrix and an extended-feature value, and calculating a poynting vector of a radar return signal through adopting the parameters; and (6), calculating a two-dimensional angle of an object as per the obtained extended-feature value and the poynting vector of the radar return signal. Under the circumstance that the one-dimensional linear array is adopted, the method can be used for estimating the two-dimensional angle, has the array element spacing larger than the half wavelength, has small computation, facilitates engineering realization, and can be used for the estimation of the two-dimensional angle of the object through the metric-wave radar.