A vehicle control method comprising: detecting a position of a stationary object on a road on which a host vehicle is traveling; detecting a velocity of the host vehicle; detecting a position and a velocity of an oncoming vehicle traveling in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the host vehicle in an oncoming lane adjacent to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling; setting a region on the road defined in an extending direction of the road including the stationary object; calculating a passing position at which the host vehicle and the oncoming vehicle pass each other in accordance with the velocity of the host vehicle and the position and the velocity of the oncoming vehicle; characterized by setting a velocity threshold that is greater as a distance between the stationary object and the oncoming vehicle is longer; causing the host vehicle to decelerate when the velocity of the oncoming vehicle corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by a predetermined distance is greater than or equal to the velocity threshold corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance in a case in which the passing position is present within the region; and causing the host vehicle to keep the velocity or accelerate when the velocity of the oncoming vehicle corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance is less than the velocity threshold corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance in the case in which the passing position is present within the region. detecting a position of a stationary object on a road on which a host vehicle is traveling; detecting a velocity of the host vehicle; detecting a position and a velocity of an oncoming vehicle traveling in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the host vehicle in an oncoming lane adjacent to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling; setting a region on the road defined in an extending direction of the road including the stationary object; calculating a passing position at which the host vehicle and the oncoming vehicle pass each other in accordance with the velocity of the host vehicle and the position and the velocity of the oncoming vehicle; characterized by setting a velocity threshold that is greater as a distance between the stationary object and the oncoming vehicle is longer; causing the host vehicle to decelerate when the velocity of the oncoming vehicle corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by a predetermined distance is greater than or equal to the velocity threshold corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance in a case in which the passing position is present within the region; and causing the host vehicle to keep the velocity or accelerate when the velocity of the oncoming vehicle corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance is less than the velocity threshold corresponding to the position of the oncoming vehicle distant from the stationary object by the predetermined distance in the case in which the passing position is present within the region.