The invention relates to the technical field of pavement deicing and specifically discloses an electromagnetic metamaterial-based pavement microwave deicing method. The method comprises the following steps of 1, designing a cycled material: that is, uniformly arranging resonance rings in cycles on the two-dimensional plane of a first medium plate; 2, placing the cycled material on an ice layer on a pavement, and the cycled material and the ice layer on the pavement forming an electromagnetic metamaterial; and 3, arranging a microwave heating device on the cycled material, adjusting the standing-wave ratio to be less than 2 and deicing the ice layer on the pavement. According to the method, the cycled material can form a local cycled resonance region, the field intensity distributed around the pavement is enhanced, thus the energy of thermal loss is increased, the thermal conversion efficiency of microwaves is improved, the heating speed of the surface layer of the pavement is increased, the time taken to separate the ice layer from the pavement is shortened, the difficulty in industrialized application of microwave deicing is solved, and the method has a great significance on the industrialized application of microwave deicing.