The thermal properties of light mesons, including the temperature dependence of their masses(both screening and pole masses) and thermal widths, are studied in a twoflavor (N f = 2) soft-wall AdS/QCD model. By solving the spatial correlation functions, we extract the screening masses (m scr ) from their poles. The screening masses of pseudo-scalar (pion), axial-vector (a 1 ) mesons increase (almost)monotonically with the temperature, while the screening masses of scalar (σ) and vector (ρ) mesons decrease at low temperatures and increase at high temperatures. Besides, the pole masses (m pole ) and thermal widths (Γ) are worked out from the temporal correlation functions and the corresponding spectral functions. The results indicate that the pole masses have local minimums at low temperatures and grow at high temperatures. The thermal widths grow rapidly above the chiral crossover temperature T cp , indicating the dissociation of mesons at high temperatures. Furthermore, degeneration of chiral partners (pion and σ mesons, ρ and a 1 ) above T cp are observed both from screening masses and pole masses, revealing the restoration of chiral symmetry at the spectral level. Finally, we verify numerically that the spectral functions in the temporal regime are strongly related to the quasi-normal modes with complex frequencies ω 0 = m pole − iΓ/2.