In this paper, we propose an adaptive search range decision algorithm for fast motion estimation of video coding. Block matching algorithm for motion vector estimation that improves coding efficiency by reduction of temporal redundancy has trade-off problem between the motion vector accuracy and the complexity. The proposed algorithm playing as a pre-processing of fast motion estimation adaptively determines the motion search range by the local statistics of neighboring motion vectors. resulting in dramatic reduction of the computational cost without the loss of coding efficiency. Experimental results show the capability of the proposed algorithm.