Using the climate tendency rate,Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index(SPEI)and Mann-Kendall trend test,we investigated spatial-temporal characteristics of droughts and floods from 1960 to 2013 on the southeast coast of China. We found that climate had an obvious warming trend,and the temperature rising rate increased from south to north,which resulted in Zhejiang being significantly warmer than Guangdong. Precipitation fluctuated stablely and did not follow an obvious linear growth trend. Variation in droughts and floods included several stages:droughts occurred mainly from 1960 to 1970;floods had an increasing trend from 1970 to 1980;droughts were roughly equivalent to floods from 1980 to 1990;droughts decreased and severe floods increased from 1990 to 2000;normal years decreased gradually and droughts increased significantly from 2000 to 2013. A real differentiation between droughts and floods was obvious. Droughts happened more frequently on the coastal parts of southwest Guangdong,in northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang. Floods happened more frequently in Leizhou Peninsula, Jianou,Dehua,Longyan and eastern Zhejiang. The northern section of the southeast coast of China,where floods historically occurred frequently,ended to become dry. The southern section followed the reverse pattern. Seasonal droughts and floods were different in different regions. Droughts and floods and climate warming were out of sync from regional scales. Temperature in Zhejiang increased the most,where it did not tend to be drier but wetter. Temperature in Guangdong rose slowly,while precipitation changed steadily,and there were more regional droughts.