The invention discloses an adaptive histogram reinforced defogging method based on a dark channel. According to the method, a dark channel model is adopted to obtain a dark channel map of a foggy image, the dark channel map is divided into a plurality of square blocks, and a weighting factor of each square block is calculated; then, a sub-block histogram of each square block is subjected to statistics with an implementation method of CLAHE; according to the sub-block histogram, a sub-block limit contrast histogram is calculated; a histogram balanced grey mapping relationship table corresponding to the square block is calculated based on the contrast histogram, and contrast stretching grey mapping is calculated; a final grey mapping relationship table is calculated by using the weighting factor, the grey mapping relationship table and the contrast stretching grey mapping; by using the grey mapping tables of the four adjacent square blocks, a center pixel of each block adopts an original grey mapping relationship, while the other pixels are acquired via grey mapping interpolation of the four blocks, and a defogged image is obtained; and finally, the image is output. According to the adaptive histogram reinforced defogging method based on the dark channel, provided by the invention, the dark channel model and a traditional CLAHE image reinforcement algorithm are combined, so that depth information in a foggy day is effectively utilized and complicated transmission pattern estimation is avoided; a single image is processed; and the adaptive histogram reinforced defogging method is good in defogging effect and high in practicality.