The invention discloses a determining method and a device for a tracking area list, which are used for reducing the TA (tracking area) updating process, reducing the TA updating signaling overhead, and improving the paging efficiency during a paging process. The determining method for the tracking area list comprises the steps as follows: a statistic result for the updating times occurred on userequipment UE between the tracking areas TA in a specific area in a specific time slice is determined; and the TA List of the UE is determined according to the statistic result.