The invention belongs to the technical field of detection of environmental pollution, and discloses a method for detecting the toxicity of luminescent bacteria. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, activating strains, namely dissolving freeze dried powder of photobacterium phosphoreum, inoculating on a slant and generating the strains for 3 times for later use; 2, culturing the strains, namely inoculating the generated strains to a liquid nutrient medium by using an inoculating loop and culturing for 12 hours at the temperature of 20 DEG C and at 180rpm; 3, balancing bacteria liquid, namely adding an appropriate amount of the bacteria liquid into 20 milliliters of NaC1 solution at the concentration of 3 percent, controlling light value measurement ranges to be between 0.5 and 5million, and agitating for 40 minutes at the temperature of 20 DEG C; 4, adding samples and detecting luminous intensity, namely adding the bacteria liquid which is agitated for 40 minutes into 200 to 800 microliters of NaC1 blank solution at the concentration of 3 percent and 800 microliters of NaC1 polluted solution at the concentration of 3 percent by using a continuous sample injector, immediately and uniformly mixing for 2 minutes on a vortex mixer, standing for 15 minutes at the temperature of 20 DEG C, and placing a sample in a fluorescence detector to detect the luminous intensity; and 5, calculating the suppression ratio of the sample to the luminous intensity by a double alternate comparison method. The method has the characteristics of convenience and high precision.