The invention discloses a method for identifying a user travel mode and an apparatus thereof and relates to the communication technology field. A problem that a determination error of a user travel mode is large because of low accuracy of user travel data can be solved. The method comprises the following steps of according to a preset time interval, acquiring MR data of a terminal, wherein the MR data at least includes acquisition time, an IMSI, an identification of a cell and a receiving level value of the cell, and the cell includes a current cell and an adjacent cell; finding a grid identification matching with the MR data from a database and determining a position of a corresponding grid of the grid identification to be a position of the terminal at the acquisition time; according to the position of the terminal at each acquisition time and the preset time interval, determining a moving speed of the terminal; and according to the moving speed of the terminal, determining the travel mode of the user. The method and the apparatus are suitable for a process of identifying the user travel mode.