An experimental and numerical study of the water droplet in collision with a porous surface in the film-boiling regime is reported. The porous substrate with a porosity of 34% and pore size of 76 nm is heated to 300 degrees C, and the motion of the droplet is recorded by a high-speed digital camera. A new three-dimensional (3-D) numerical model is developed to account for the transport phenomenon both inside and outside the porous media, by coupling the flow field with the heat and mass transfer process. The vapor layer model is used as a subgrid model to calculate the induced vapor pressure in the narrow region between the droplet and the surface. The vapor mass transfer is modeled considering the vapor generation and transport mechanisms in different domains. Direct numerical simulation is performed under the same conditions as the experiment, and the simulation results for the droplet behavior are in good agreement with the experimental results. The collision of a water droplet on the porous surface shows similar features to those on nonporous surfaces in the film-boiling regime, probably because of the small pore size of the material used in the current study. However, the droplet has a longer residence time, and it also seems to be less stable on the porous surface.