McDonald's Prices in Austin vs Tucson

A typical Big Mac® in Austin is $4.99; in Tucson it is $7.99. Those are city medians (35 restaurants against 29 restaurants), not one store standing in for the skyline. Same chain, two city medians, pickup prices from McDonald's own ordering system.

This page is the city, not a restaurant. Austin’s figure is the median pickup price across 35 McDonald's restaurants we priced; Tucson’s is the median across 29. One expensive airport location cannot drag either city, and one cheap store cannot pretend to be it.

Inside Austin a Big Mac® runs $4.49 to $5.39 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). Inside Tucson it runs $6.99 to $8.29 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). The city-to-city gap on that item is $3.00 on the medians, which is a statement about the two cities, not about a single till in either one. A spread inside one city is why a state average hides half the story.

To compare two specific addresses, use Store mode on the picker above. A McDonald's in Austin is not “Austin.”

Austin as of 26 September 2026 · Tucson as of 26 September 2026

Typical overlapping menu in these two cities

Only items that show up at enough restaurants in both cities to publish a median. Sorted by the city-to-city gap, not by either city’s menu board.

Common in only one of these cities

Austin’s restaurants listed 15 comparable items often enough to publish a city median that Tucson did not. Tucson listed 5 that Austin did not. Those stay off the city-to-city table, because a median for a city that barely sells the item would be a fake number.

Common in Austin, not in the other city: Pumpkin & Creme Pie, Double Hamburger, 2 Pumpkin And Creme Pie, Quarter Pounder® Hamburger, McChicken® Biscuit, Chicken McGriddles®, Blueberry & Creme Pie, and 3 Pack Of Cookies.

Common in Tucson, not in the other city: Hot Tea, 2 Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookie, Kids Fry, and Frozen Hawaiian Punch®.

How to read this

Each price is the median pickup quote at the restaurants we priced in that city, not one celebrity store and not a mean pulled by an airport. Tax is not included. A gap of a few cents on one sandwich is noise; 165 overlapping items pointing the same way is a difference between the two cities.

Compare a different pair of cities with the picker at the top, or see every priced McDonald's restaurant on the price map — the map is store grain; this page is the city sitting on top of it.