The invention discloses a cable partial discharging positioning method based on self-correlation-wavelet modulus maximum analysis, and belongs to the field of the electric system. The method comprises the following steps that firstly, collecting and primary processing is carried out on a partial discharging signal; secondly, a partial discharging incident wave-reflected wave pulse data segment is extracted; thirdly, self-correlation processing is carried out on the incident wave-reflected wave pulse data segment x(n) in the second step, and an estimated value dN of a wavefront time difference of an incident wave and a reflected wave is extracted; fourthly, N-layer wavelet decomposition and reconstitution are carried out on the incident wave-reflected wave pulse data segment x(n) in the third step, a maximum point of each layer wavelet reconstitution signal is extracted as a the wavefront position of the incident wave, and the estimated value dN, obtained by the self-correlation analysis in the third step, of the wavefront time difference of the incident wave and the reflected wave is regarded as the reference, the maximum value moment of the reflected wave wavelet modulus is extracted, the wavefront time difference of the incident wave and the reflected wave is calculated, and the partial discharging position is calculated. The method has the advantages that the positioning accuracy is high, and the anti-interference capacity is high.