C2H2 zinc finger protein is one of the most common zinc finger proteins and widely found in eukaryotes. It plays an important role in plant growth and development, abiotic stress response to salt, low temperature and drought stress. In this study, the C2H2 amino acid sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana were used to blast with local BLASTP in the oil palm genome database and to predict the conservative domains, and to screen the C2H2 zinc finger protein family of oil palm. The physical and chemical properties, evolutionary relationships, chromosomal location, gene structure, conservative motif and promoter cis-elements were analyzed through bioinformatics softwares, the expression of EgC2H2 gene was analyzed by the transcriptome data and real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR under low temperature stress. A total of 73 C2H2 type zinc finger protein family members were identified from the genome of oil palm. The number of amino acids in EgC2H2 family was between 128 and 556, The molecular weight was between 14 176.73 and 58 983.30 Da, the isoelectric point was between 4.99 and 9.62, the instability index was between 38.84 and 86.01, and the gravy was between -1.154 and -0.226. Subcellular localization showed that the C2H2 gene family were localized in the nucleus. Phylogenetic tree analysis showed that EgC2H2 family members were divided into four subfamilies, most members of EgC2H2 family were classified into subfamily Ⅰ and subfamily Ⅱ, and the domains of the same subfamily members were highly consistent. Chromosome location results showed that EgC2H2 family members were unevenly distributed on the 16 chromosomes of oil palm. Analysis of promoter cis-elements showed that the EgC2H2 family contained many promoter cis-elements related to light response elements, plant hormones response elements and stress response elements. Transcriptome analysis showed that most EgC2H2 genes responded to low temperature stress, and most EgC2H2 genes were highly expressed in cold-tolerant materials and low expressed in cold-sensitive materials. qRT-PCR analysis showed that the expression level of EgC2H2-23, EgC2H2-11, EgC2H2-19, EgC2H2-17 and EgC2H2-21 was significantly up-regulated, and the expression level of cold-tolerant materials was significantly higher than that of cold-sensitive materials. It was speculated that the genes would play a key role in oil palm response to low temperature stress, and can be used as candidate genes for further study. This study would provide theoretical reference for further study on the functional analysis of C2H2 gene family in oil palm.