The invention relates to an urban road congestion degree prediction method based on time sequence traffic events. The method comprises the steps of: S1, acquiring historical traffic event data, real-time traffic event data and video monitoring data of an urban road section; S2, identifying traffic congestion forewarning events in the video data through the 3D CNN, and performing data space-time fusion according to the historical traffic events; S3, determining congestion degree classification labels, constructing a time sequence traffic congestion event data dictionary, and screening a training set, a verification set and a test set; S4, establishing an LSTM sequence data classification model, inputting the training set, and iteratively updating model parameters by utilizing a gradient descent method; S5, inputting the verification set into the model with updated parameters, optimizing and adjusting hyper-parameters, and selecting an optimal model; and S6, inputting the test set into the optimal training model, checking the effectiveness of the model, and carrying out road congestion prediction according to real-time traffic monitoring data. According to the method, a sequence dataclassification model is established by using LSTM, and the urban road congestion degree is predicted based on time sequence traffic events.