Using the daily precipitation data from nine meteorological stations in the karst area of the Yunnan Plateau from 1960 to 2017, six extreme precipitation indexes were calculated by MATLAB. Based on inverse distance weighted interpolation, linear tendency estimation, Mann-Kendall abrupt change test and Morlet continuous wavelet transform, we explored the evolution of extreme precipitation events in the karst area of the Yunnan plateau. The results showed that among the extreme precipitation indexes in the karst area of the Yunnan plateau from 1960 to 2017, CDD, RX1day, RX5day, and SDII mainly showed a slow upward trend, CWD showed a significant downward trend, and the overall decrease of PRCPTOT was not significant. Only CDD and PRCPTOT had undergone significant abrupt changes in this period, which happened in 2006 and 2000, whereas the remaining four indexes CWD, RX1day, RX5day, and SDII had no obvious abrupt changes. The periodic fluctuations of each extreme precipitation index were obvious, manifested as major cycles of 28-30 a, 26-30 a, 27-30 a, and 27-30 a for CDD, CWD, RX1day, and RX5day, respectively. In comparison, SDII and PRCPTOT are most obvious at the 27-30 a scale. The spatial differences of extreme precipitation indexes in the karst area of the Yunnan Plateau from 1960 to 2017 were obvious. All the indexes increased from north to south with the exception of CDD showing the oposite trend. From 1960-2017, CDD, CWD, RX1day, RX5day, and SDII all had a very significant positive correlation with PRCPTOT, with the correlation coefficient of 0.98 and above. These changes of extreme precipitation events can provide some reference for future karst water resources management and ecological environment construction.