The invention discloses a tailing dry type recovery method of a valley type tailing pond based on underground water drainage. The method specifically comprises the following steps that recovering thewhole tailing pond is completed through investigation and geological survey of the tailing pond, division of a recovery area and determination of parameters, laying of a transportation road, adoptinga reverse excavation mode and setting of a drainage open ditch. According to the method, the drainage open ditch is excavated for drainage, the ditch is excavated by a wetland excavator, a drainage platform is ahead of a recovery platform by two layers, the drainage safety and the timeliness can be guaranteed, the engineering quantity can be directly used as the extraction quantity, the drainage and the recovery work are closely connected, the investment facility equipment is simple, the road in the tailing pond is directly paved with tailings, the time is saved, the convenience is realized, and the entry and the secondary dumping of different materials are avoided; and therefore, the recovery speed of the tailing pond is accelerated, the mining period is shortened, and the problem that the effective working time of traditional dry type recovery is short is solved. The lifting speed of the bearing capacity of the tailing pond foundation is accelerated, so that the tailing recovery workof the tailing pond is completed quickly and efficiently on a large scale.