Big Mac®

Big Mac® at McDonald's. 580 calories, $5.99, 25 g protein.

Big Mac®

Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.

580calories
$5.99price
25 gprotein
Cnutrition score
97calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 580 calories it is heavier than 86% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Its nutrition score is C — average. About typical for fast food. It ranks 21st of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 4.3 g of protein per 100 calories, 67th of 174 items with published protein. At 97 calories per dollar it is 97th of 184 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
Spam® Rice & Egg570−10
Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles®550−30
Sausage Portuguese Rice550−30
Hot and Crispy Chicken My550−30
BBQ Bacon Grilled Chicken Sandwich540−40

What a Big Mac® costs across America

Priced at 12235 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $5.19 and $7.19, a spread of 39%.

$5.99median price
$5.19–$7.19middle 80%
12235restaurants priced
50states
470 restaurants at $4.69–$4.89579 restaurants at $4.89–$5.091166 restaurants at $5.09–$5.29977 restaurants at $5.29–$5.49711 restaurants at $5.49–$5.691713 restaurants at $5.69–$5.891138 restaurants at $5.89–$6.091408 restaurants at $6.09–$6.29279 restaurants at $6.29–$6.491019 restaurants at $6.49–$6.69924 restaurants at $6.69–$6.89571 restaurants at $6.89–$7.09249 restaurants at $7.09–$7.291031 restaurants at $7.29 and above$4.69$7.29+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.

Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.

$2.99cheapest sampled — Fountain Valley, CA
$9.50most expensive sampled — Anchorage, AK

The cheapest Big Mac® in the sample is $2.99 in Fountain Valley, CA, and the most expensive is $9.50 in Anchorage, AK. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
TX$4.991068cheapest
WY$5.1910cheapest
OK$5.29163cheapest
LA$5.29190cheapest
MT$7.7517most expensive
AK$7.5019most expensive
AZ$7.29254most expensive
MA$7.19366most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

587 of the 12,238 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.4%. A typical one now charges $5.89.

$5.89$5.94$5.992026-09-01 - $5.99 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-02 - $5.99 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-03 - $5.89 - median of 12,204 restaurants2026-09-04 - $5.89 - median of 12,212 restaurants2026-09-05 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-06 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-07 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-08 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-09 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-10 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-11 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-12 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-13 - $5.89 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-14 - $5.89 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-15 - $5.89 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-16 - $5.89 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-17 - $5.89 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-18 - $5.89 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-19 - $5.89 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-20 - $5.89 - median of 12,228 restaurants2026-09-21 - $5.89 - median of 12,228 restaurants2026-09-22 - $5.89 - median of 12,228 restaurants2026-09-23 - $5.89 - median of 12,230 restaurants2026-09-24 - $5.89 - median of 12,230 restaurants2026-09-25 - $5.89 - median of 12,238 restaurants2026-09-26 - $5.89 - median of 12,238 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $5.99 to 2026-09-26 · $5.89. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.

The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.

Everything that changed at this chain →

See every Big Mac® we price on the map — 12,235 restaurants, one dot each →

US Big Mac Index — national median, state prices, and a week of the same restaurant data →

Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Big Mac®’s $5.99. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
Quarter Pounder® with Cheese$5.9932%12,234
Deluxe Spicy McCrispy™$5.9933%12,232
Steak, Egg & Cheese McGriddles®$5.9932%9,815
Bacon BBQ Burger$5.99—13
Big Breakfast/Steak Hot Cake$6.0972%6,209

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Added Sugars5 g
Calcium120 mg
Cholesterol85 mg
Dietary Fiber3 g
Iron4 mg
Potassium370 mg
Protein25 g
Saturated Fat11 g
Sodium1060 mg
Sugars7 g
Total Carbohydrate45 g
Total Fat34 g
Trans Fat1 g
Vitamin D0 mcg

The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.