The invention provides a building non-contact settlement monitoring method based on a photography total station. According to the method, a CCD module is added for a general total station, a buildinglocal feature image is remotely acquired, and elements of interior and exterior orientations of the CCD module are acquired by means of a rotating correction-based simple calibration method; three-dimensional coordinates of a monitoring point are calculated according to a photogrammetry principle added with a plane equation constraint; and monitoring point feature extraction and matching are conducted on various periods of images by adopting an SIFT operator, and various periods of settlement amounts of a building are calculated.