The invention provides a method of measuring an adjacent region and a user terminal. The method of measuring the adjacent region comprises obtaining other downlink subframes except subframes of 0 and 5 by acquiring the uplink and downlink configurations of each frequency point, and confirming the downlink subframes used for measurement of each frequency point according to the uplink and downlink configuration of each frequency point, namely, allocating the downlink subframes of 0 and 5 and other downlink subframes obtained in a previous procedure to be used for the measurement of each frequency point. Compared with the prior art that only the downlink subframes of 0 and 5 is used for measurement, the method of measuring the adjacent region and the user terminal is increased by the downlink subframes, and therefore the duration of completing a round of measurement of the adjacent region is reduced, the sleeping time of a terminal can be increased, and the power consumption of the terminal is reduced.