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A typical Big Mac® in Houston is $4.99; in San Diego it is $7.29. Those are city medians (128 restaurants against 39 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. Houston’s figure is the median pickup price across 128 McDonald's restaurants we priced; San Diego’s is the median across 39. One expensive airport location cannot drag either city, and one cheap store cannot pretend to be it.
Inside Houston a Big Mac® runs $4.69 to $5.29 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). Inside San Diego it runs $6.19 to $7.49 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). The city-to-city gap on that item is $2.30 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 Houston is not “Houston.”
Houston as of 3 November 2026 · San Diego as of 3 November 2026
147 overlapping items are cheaper in Houston as a city, 0 cheaper in San Diego as a city, and 6 cost the same on both city medians. The biggest gap on this pair is the Steak Egg Cheese Bagel: $5.59 vs $8.39.
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.
| Item | Houston city median | San Diego city median | City gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steak Egg Cheese Bagel | $5.59 | $8.39 | +$2.80 |
| 20 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $7.19 | $9.99 | +$2.80 |
| 20 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $7.19 | $9.99 | +$2.80 |
| 40 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $12.89 | $15.59 | +$2.70 |
| 40 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $12.89 | $15.59 | +$2.70 |
| Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese Deluxe | $6.84 | $9.39 | +$2.55 |
| Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | $4.09 | $6.49 | +$2.40 |
| Bacon McDouble® | $3.39 | $5.79 | +$2.40 |
| Daily Double® | $3.19 | $5.59 | +$2.40 |
| Big Mac® | $4.99 | $7.29 | +$2.30 |
| Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $6.69 | $8.99 | +$2.30 |
| Double Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $7.34 | $9.59 | +$2.25 |
| Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $4.99 | $7.19 | +$2.20 |
| Sausage Egg Cheese Bagel | $4.79 | $6.99 | +$2.20 |
| Iced Vanilla Coffee | $2.19 | $4.39 | +$2.20 |
| 10 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $4.89 | $6.99 | +$2.10 |
| 10 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $4.89 | $6.99 | +$2.10 |
| 4 Piece McCrispy™ Strips | $5.89 | $7.99 | +$2.10 |
| Iced Coffee | $2.29 | $4.39 | +$2.10 |
| Bacon Egg Cheese Bagel | $4.89 | $6.89 | +$2.00 |
| French Fries | $2.79 | $4.79 | +$2.00 |
| Hotcakes and Sausage | $4.99 | $6.99 | +$2.00 |
| Quarter Pounder® Hamburger | $4.39 | $6.39 | +$2.00 |
| Quarter Pounder® with Cheese Deluxe | $5.49 | $7.49 | +$2.00 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | $4.59 | $6.49 | +$1.90 |
| Bacon. Egg & Cheese Biscuit | $3.89 | $5.79 | +$1.90 |
| Double Hamburger | $2.19 | $4.09 | +$1.90 |
| Hotcakes | $3.99 | $5.79 | +$1.80 |
| Sausage & Egg Biscuit | $3.99 | $5.79 | +$1.80 |
| Triple Cheeseburger | $4.49 | $6.29 | +$1.80 |
| Egg McMuffin® | $3.99 | $5.69 | +$1.70 |
| Spicy McCrispy™ | $4.59 | $6.29 | +$1.70 |
| Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $6.19 | $7.89 | +$1.70 |
| Honey Brown Butter Bacon Egg Cheese Biscuit | $4.19 | $5.89 | +$1.70 |
| Mango Pineapple Smoothie | $4.19 | $5.89 | +$1.70 |
| Strawberry Banana Smoothie | $4.19 | $5.89 | +$1.70 |
| McCrispy™ | $4.39 | $5.99 | +$1.60 |
| 2 Fried Apple Pies | $3.39 | $4.99 | +$1.60 |
| Decaf Coffee | $2.19 | $3.79 | +$1.60 |
| Minute Maid® Orange Juice | $3.19 | $4.79 | +$1.60 |
| 2 Blueberry & Creme Pie | $3.29 | $4.89 | +$1.60 |
| 2 Pumpkin And Creme Pie | $3.29 | $4.89 | +$1.60 |
| 3 Piece McCrispy™ Strips | $4.99 | $6.49 | +$1.50 |
| Chocolate Shake | $3.99 | $5.49 | +$1.50 |
| Filet-O-Fish® | $4.59 | $6.09 | +$1.50 |
| Iced Caramel Apple Pie Latte | $4.19 | $5.69 | +$1.50 |
| Premium Roast Coffee | $2.29 | $3.79 | +$1.50 |
| Sausage McMuffin® with Egg | $3.99 | $5.49 | +$1.50 |
| Strawberry Shake | $3.99 | $5.49 | +$1.50 |
| Vanilla Shake | $3.99 | $5.49 | +$1.50 |
| 13 Cookie Tote | $6.59 | $7.99 | +$1.40 |
| Iced Caramel Macchiato | $3.59 | $4.99 | +$1.40 |
| Iced Latte | $3.59 | $4.99 | +$1.40 |
| Iced Vanilla Latte | $3.59 | $4.99 | +$1.40 |
| Scrambled Eggs | $1.92 | $3.29 | +$1.37 |
| Caramel Apple Pie Frappé | $5.24 | $6.59 | +$1.35 |
| Caramel Latte | $3.69 | $4.99 | +$1.30 |
| Iced Caramel Coffee | $3.19 | $4.49 | +$1.30 |
| Iced Caramel Latte | $3.69 | $4.99 | +$1.30 |
| Oatmeal | $2.89 | $4.19 | +$1.30 |
| Vanilla Latte | $3.69 | $4.99 | +$1.30 |
| Fanta® Orange | $1.89 | $3.19 | +$1.30 |
| Hamburger | $1.49 | $2.79 | +$1.30 |
| Powerade® | $1.89 | $3.19 | +$1.30 |
| Caramel Apple Pie Latte | $4.29 | $5.59 | +$1.30 |
| Deluxe McCrispy™ | $5.29 | $6.59 | +$1.30 |
| 2 Apple Pies | $2.79 | $3.99 | +$1.20 |
| Apple Pie | $1.69 | $2.89 | +$1.20 |
| Caramel Apple Pie Iced Coffee | $3.99 | $5.19 | +$1.20 |
| Caramel Sundae | $2.99 | $4.19 | +$1.20 |
| Cheeseburger | $1.69 | $2.89 | +$1.20 |
| Deluxe Spicy McCrispy™ | $5.59 | $6.79 | +$1.20 |
| Double Cheeseburger | $2.79 | $3.99 | +$1.20 |
| Hot Fudge Sundae | $2.99 | $4.19 | +$1.20 |
| McChicken® | $1.59 | $2.79 | +$1.20 |
| Latte | $3.19 | $4.39 | +$1.20 |
| Caramel Macchiato | $2.00 | $3.19 | +$1.19 |
| Coke® | $1.89 | $2.99 | +$1.10 |
| Diet Coke® | $1.89 | $2.99 | +$1.10 |
| Diet Dr Pepper® | $1.89 | $2.99 | +$1.10 |
Houston’s restaurants listed 20 comparable items often enough to publish a city median that San Diego did not. San Diego listed 15 that Houston 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 Houston, not in the other city: Egg Biscuit, Big Breakfast with Hotcakes, Double Filet-O-Fish®, Steak & Egg McMuffin®, Steak Egg Cheese Biscuit, Steak, Egg & Cheese McGriddles®, Egg Cheese Biscuit, and Hotcakes and Steak.
Common in San Diego, not in the other city: Iced Sugar Free Vanilla Coffee, Sugar Free Vanilla Latte, Hot Tea, Iced Sugar Free Vanilla Latte, Sugar Free Vanilla Cappuccino, 3 Pack Of Cookies, Reduced Sugar Dirty Dr Pepper®, and Strawberry & Crème Pie.
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; 153 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.
What this does not do yet. It does not match a Chicken Sandwich to a Whopper, and it does not hunt down the cheapest restaurant for a custom order. Those are next. This page is the city-grain question: two cities, same chain, median overlapping menu, different typical prices.