The present disclosure relates to a backlight control method and apparatus for a backlight module, a display device and a computer readable storage medium. The backlight module includes a plurality of backlight partitions. The backlight control method includes, for each backlight partition: determining a first brightness change threshold according to an output backlight brightness corresponding to a previous frame image; and determining, according to a difference between an initial backlight brightness of a current frame image and the output backlight brightness corresponding to the previous frame image and the first brightness change threshold, the output backlight brightness corresponding to the current frame image.