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An Egg McMuffin costs $4.29 and carries 310 calories. Here's the verified price, the full nutrition, and exactly what goes into it.
An Egg McMuffin contains 310 calories, 17g of protein and 30g of carbohydrate, and costs $4.29 at the national midpoint. The meal, with hash browns and a small coffee, is $8.19 and 455 calories.
Complete pricing and nutrition for the Egg McMuffin, plus the detail most guides skip: the exact build, why published calorie counts differ by up to 23, and where the sandwich sits against the rest of the board. Prices for every other item are on our McDonald's breakfast menu, and serving cut-offs are on breakfast hours.
Our surveyed national midpoint is $4.29 for the sandwich on its own. Around 95 percent of US McDonald's restaurants are franchisee owned and set their own board, so the real spread runs from about $3.79 in rural markets to $5.49 or more at airport and highway sites.
A standard sandwich is 310 calories. That is McDonald's own published figure and the one used everywhere on this site. Third-party databases list this sandwich anywhere between 287 and 310, so the number you find depends entirely on which page you landed on.
Nutrition aggregators often work from older formulations or from a slightly different serving weight, and none of them update when McDonald's reformulates. The spread runs from 287 to 310, which is 23 calories between the lowest published figure and the official one.
Every calorie figure on this site matches McDonald's own. Full menu comparison on nutrition and calories.
Five things, and no sauce. A toasted English muffin, a freshly cracked Grade A egg cooked in a ring, a slice of Canadian bacon, a slice of American cheese, and real butter on the muffin. That is the entire build, and it has not changed since 1972.
It is the only item on the McDonald's breakfast menu made with a round, freshly cracked egg. Every other breakfast sandwich uses folded egg or scrambled egg mix. Ask for a round egg on a McGriddle or a biscuit and you are asking for this egg, which most restaurants will do as a substitution.
Herb Peterson, a franchisee in Santa Barbara, built the first one in 1972 while trying to make a portable eggs Benedict. The ring mould was his solution to getting a poached-egg shape onto a muffin. It went national in 1975, which is why March 2 is now marked as National Egg McMuffin Day.
Contains egg, milk, wheat and soy. Cooked on shared surfaces, so cross contact is possible. Full allergen detail on McDonald's nutrition.
These two get confused more than any other pair on the breakfast board, and the difference is bigger than the names suggest. One is a lean Canadian bacon sandwich at 310 calories. The other is a pork sausage patty sandwich at 480.
Both McMuffins use the same round, fresh-cracked egg; only the meat changes. This sandwich is not an Under $3 item, but the plain Sausage McMuffin is. Current offers on McDonald's meal deals.
Five routes, in order of how much they actually save. The app is where nearly all McDonald's breakfast value now sits, since the April 2026 update moved national offers into the deals tab.
310 calories, with 17g of protein, 13g of fat and 30g of carbohydrate. That is McDonald's published figure. Third-party databases list anywhere from 287 to 310, so check which source you are reading.
$4.29 at the national midpoint. Rural restaurants run closer to $3.79 and airport locations to $5.49. The meal with hash browns and a small coffee is $8.19.
None. There is no ketchup, no sauce and no spread beyond the butter brushed onto the toasted muffin. The original 1972 build was English muffin, egg, Canadian bacon and cheese, and it has not changed.
A freshly cracked Grade A egg cooked in a ring mould. It is the only item on the McDonald's breakfast menu made this way. Every other breakfast sandwich uses folded or scrambled egg.
It is the lightest hot breakfast sandwich McDonald's sells and carries the best protein per calorie on the board at 5.5g per 100. The sodium is high at 770mg, a third of the daily recommendation, and the cholesterol is 250mg.
The meat. Canadian bacon against a pork sausage patty, which is 170 more calories and more than double the fat. The Sausage McMuffin with Egg is also 60 cents more.
No. All Day Breakfast ran from October 2015 to March 2020 and has not returned as a national program. Most restaurants stop serving breakfast between 10:30am and 11:00am. Times are on our breakfast hours page.
17g, which is 34% of the daily value. That is the best protein-per-calorie ratio on the McDonald's breakfast menu, ahead of every McGriddle, biscuit and burrito.
No. The plain Sausage McMuffin at $2.89 is one of the five Under $3 breakfast items. This sandwich sits above that category at $4.29.
March 2 each year, marking the 1975 national launch. McDonald's has run a $1 app-only offer on that date, which is the cheapest the sandwich gets all year.
Prices shown are based on typical U.S. McDonald’s menu prices as of August 2026 and may vary by location. Check your local restaurant or McDonald’s app for the latest prices.
Timing questions are answered on breakfast hours .