To provide a drying furnace for coating appropriate for a drying article apt to generate vapor wash, and a drying method for coating.

The drying furnace 11 has an air flow blow out opening 14 provided at the downstream side upper part, and an air flow intake opening 15 provided at the upstream side upper part wherein an air flow is circulated between the air flow blow out opening 14 and the air flow intake opening 15 to make the vapor wash difficult to occur by detecting with a car type sensing device 31 when a drying article W easy to generate the vapor wash comes into the drying furnace 11.