The present invention is applied to the communications field and provides a method for obtaining a location of UE, and an apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a base station, at least one beam, where each beam includes first beam identity information, the first beam identity information is used to uniquely identify the beam, and the beam is received by UE that is in coverage of the beam; receiving, by the base station, second beam identity information sent by the UE, where the second beam identity information corresponds to the first beam identity information, and the second beam identity information is used to indicate a beam on which the UE resides; and determining, by the base station, a location of the UE according to the second beam identity information sent by the UE. By means of the apparatus and the method of embodiments of the present invention, location information of UE can be obtained in a millimetric wave scenario.