The invention discloses an aluminum-doped zinc oxide film coating and nano-rod array material as well as a preparation method thereof. The aluminum-doped zinc oxide film coating and nano-rod array material comprises the components based on the weight percentage: 95-99% of zinc oxide and 1-5% of aluminum-doped quantity. The preparation method adopts a sol-gel method, zinc acetate and aluminium nitrate are added with organic solvent according to the proportion for heating under reflux; the mixed solution is then added with certain quantity of stabilizing agent for water bath heating at certain temperature and added with organic reagents such as absolute ethyl alcohol, methanamide or methanol and the like to prepare sol according to the need; after that, a spin coating method is adopted to form a film, and the aluminum-doped zinc oxide nano film coating material can be obtained by the processes such as drying, pretreating, repeatedly spin coating, annealing, secondary annealing under theatmosphere of hydrogen and nitrogen and the like; then, a hydrothermal method is adopted for preparing highly oriented aluminum-doped zinc oxide nano-rod and array thereof. The invention has high utilization rate of the raw materials, low cost and simplified preparation technique, and can control the performance and the particle size of the material from the molecular design level.