A place recommendation method, comprising: receiving a place recommendation request sent by a query user terminal, the place recommendation request carrying a query user identifier; searching for sign-in data of a query user corresponding to the query user identifier, wherein a position social network platform generates a sign-in data set according to past sign-in behaviors of users, and the sign-in data of each user in the sign-in data set comprises a sign-in place; searching the sign-in data set for associated users of the query user; calculating the similarity between the query user and each associated user, and determining a similar user set corresponding to the query user according to the calculated similarity; determining a sign-in place set corresponding to the similar user set; and removing the sign-in place coinciding with the query user in the sign-in place set to obtain a recommended place set, and pushing recommended places included in the recommended place set to the query user terminal.