The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for processing a Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) image. The method includes that: decomposition and color space conversion are performed on an original PolSAR image to obtain a Saturation (S) channel image, a Hue (H) channel image and an Intensity (I) channel image; filtering and K-means clustering are performed on the S channel image to extract a first area from the S channel image; filtering and K-means clustering are performed on the H channel image based on the first area to extract a second area from the H channel image; filtering and K-means clustering are performed on the I channel image based on the second area, and morphological filtering is performed on the I channel image having gone through the K-means clustering; and a third area is determined, according to an area attribute parameter, from the I channel image having gone through the morphological filtering.