The invention provides a timing synchronization method and a timing synchronization system for power line carrier communication. The system comprises an analog-to-digital converter, an I/O (Input/Output) demodulator, a narrowband interference detector, an adaptive filter, a normalization module, an auto-correlation calculation module, a comparator and a postprocessor, wherein an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) carrier signal is converted into an OFDM carrier frequency domain signal by the analog-to-digital converter, the I/O demodulator and the narrowband interference detector. The method comprises the following steps: 1, acquiring average power P of each OFDM subcarrier f; 2, performing narrowband interference detection on the OFDM subcarrier f; 3, filtering the OFDM signal and then performing normalization processing; 4, acquiring start time of the OFDM carrier signal and outputting an OFDM carrier synchronization signal. Compared with the prior art, the timing synchronization method and the timing synchronization system for power line carrier communication have the advantage of higher robustness under various different channel environments of narrowband interference, pulse noise, multi-path propagation and violent change or nonlinear input signal amplitude.