The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for determining the physical location of an electronic device. The method includes the following steps that: at a power distribution unit (PDU) which supplies power for the electronic device, the location identifier of the physical location of the PDU is read from a radio frequency (RF) tag reader; and the location identifier,the network address of the PDU and the network address of the electronic device associated with the network address of the PDU are provided for a computing device, so that the computing device can determine the physical location of the electronic device.