The crop water footprint is an important index for measuring water resources utilization efficiency, it provides a new approach to solving the problem of water resources shortage. Taking the main crops in Zhejiang Province as the research object, we used CROPWAT8.0, CLIMWAT2.0 and ArcGIS software to calculate and analyze the temporal and spatial characteristics of water footprints of the main crops in Zhejiang Province from 2002 to 2018. The results showed that the total water footprint of crops in Zhejiang Province changed greatly from 2002 to 2018, showing a general downward trend, with the lowest value in 2016, the highest value in 2002 and a total decrease of 16.18%. In the internal structure of water footprints, the water footprint of food crops ranked first, followed by fruits, tea, vegetables and oil crops. In the internal structure of the water footprint of food crops, the water footprint of late rice accounted for the largest proportion, whereas that of corn accounted for the smallest. There were significant regional differences in water footprints, with the lowest total water footprint of crops in island areas, the highest in plain and basin areas, followed by that in mountainous and hilly regions. The per capita water footprint of crops was affected not only by the total water footprint of crops, but also by the population. The per capita water footprint of counties with sparse population was significantly higher than that of cities with dense population.