A method for selecting a wireless access point (AP) relates to the field of communications technologies, and to a fine time measurement (FTM) technology in a wireless network, where after receiving a query request carrying a query condition, a server determines a target AP according to stored service capability information of each of multiple APs that support an FTM mechanism and the query condition, and sends a media access control (MAC) address of the target AP and information about a frequency band and a channel used by the target AP to a terminal.