The invention provides a picture switching control method and device for an automobile panorama image system. The method and device can further accord with the switching control logic of the actual requirement of a user in the driving and riding process, and switching accuracy, predictability and safety are improved. The picture switching control method includes the steps that a 360-degree panorama image display system is started; single-visual-angle pictures and 360-degree panoramas are displayed on an automobile multimedia display screen; the switching sequence of the single-visual-angle pictures is set; the single-visual-angle pictures are cyclically switched according to the sequence of the right-view picture, the rear-view picture, the left-view picture, the front-view picture and the current picture, the current picture coincides with one of the right-view picture, the rear-view picture, the left-view picture and the front-view picture, and in the switching process, the picture coinciding with the current picture is skipped in the switching sequence; and each time a hard button on a central channel is pressed down, the corresponding single-visual-angle picture is switched once according to the switching sequence.