Abstract: Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone (DT Lake) is not only an important grain base but also a key region of ecological environment protection in China. It is necessary to investigate extreme temperature and precipitation events for disaster prevention and mitigation, climate change adaption in this region. Based on station observations, variation of extreme temperature and precipitation events in 1960-2018 over DT Lake was analyzed and conclusions are as following: extreme temperature indices show significant change with cold indices such as TN10p, FD and ID are decreasing, warm indices such as TN90p, SU, TR and WSDI are increasing. Both amount and frequency of heavy precipitation increase, as R95p, R20mm and R50mm increase at the rate of 18.85 mm/10a, 0.36 d/10a and 0.19 d/10a, respectively. Frequency and duration of compound heat wave and summer extreme warm dry events obviously increase in the last 20 years. On average, 1.08 compound heat waves and 5.41 extreme warm dry events occur in each year in 2010s.