McDonald's Prices in Houston vs Seattle

A typical Big Mac® in Houston is $4.99; in Seattle it is $7.24. Those are city medians (128 restaurants against 16 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; Seattle’s is the median across 16. 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 Seattle it runs $6.79 to $7.59 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). The city-to-city gap on that item is $2.25 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 26 September 2026 · Seattle 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

Houston’s restaurants listed 12 comparable items often enough to publish a city median that Seattle did not. Seattle listed 13 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, McGriddles®, Sausage Egg & Cheese Biscuit, Quarter Pounder® Hamburger, Jalapeno Crispy, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Reduced Sugar Vanilla Swirl with Coke Zero Sugar®, and Powerade®.

Common in Seattle, not in the other city: Sugar Free Vanilla Latte, Hot Tea, Iced Sugar Free Vanilla Latte, Sugar Free Vanilla Cappuccino, Reduced Sugar Dirty Dr Pepper®, Chocolate Chip Cookie, L UNsweet Tea*, and Kids Fry.

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; 161 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.