McDonald's Hours: Open & Close Times, Breakfast & Lunch Hours by Location

McDonald's Hours: What Time Do They Open and Close?

McDonald's publishes a schedule for every restaurant, not for the company. The numbers below are Monday listings pulled from the restaurant pages on mcdonalds.com in October 2026, and they show how wide the spread is inside one city, let alone between states.

Three Houston restaurants alone gave three different answers: a 5:00 AM opening, a 4:00 AM opening and no closing time at all. Add the different dining room closings, from 10:00 PM at Kirby Dr to 11:00 PM at Post Oak Blvd, and the spread inside one city is already wider than most chains show nationwide. None of these pages is wrong; each reflects a separate owner's staffing and local traffic. That is the reason a search for plain "McDonald's hours" returns an unsatisfying answer: the honest range is roughly 4:00 AM to midnight for a standard store, with a visible slice of 24-hour sites in big cities, near highways and on tourist strips.

What Time Does McDonald's Stop Serving Breakfast?

This is the question behind most breakfast searches, and it has a plain answer with a local caveat. Breakfast runs from the moment a restaurant opens until a changeover time that the restaurant sets.

Press coverage of the chain, including a report from NBC Chicago, describes the cutoff as 10:30 AM at some restaurants and 11:00 AM at others, with lunch beginning when the breakfast menu is switched off. Several guides split it by day, with 10:30 on weekdays and 11:00 on weekends, but that split is a common habit rather than a published rule, so treat it as a starting guess.

• Breakfast starts at opening time, so an early restaurant such as Post Oak Blvd in Houston can be serving hash browns while a 6:00 AM Manhattan store is still dark.
• Lunch and dinner items, including Big Macs and nuggets, generally appear after the changeover rather than during the breakfast window.
• A few places run both menus around the clock only in the sense that they are open around the clock; the changeover still happens each morning.

Does McDonald's Serve Breakfast All Day?

No. All-day breakfast ran from 2015 and was dropped in 2020 to simplify kitchen operations, according to NBC Chicago's account, and nothing we found in October 2026 shows it coming back. Searches for "24 hour breakfast" at McDonald's usually come from people at a 24-hour restaurant who expect a breakfast sandwich at midnight.

24-Hour McDonald's Near Me: How to Find One

Around-the-clock service is common enough to search for but far from universal. In our October 2026 checks, the pages for 1528 Broadway in Manhattan, 9805 S Main St in Houston, 3717 Las Vegas Blvd S and 600 N Clark St in Chicago all showed every day as 24 hours.

• Look at cities with nightlife or constant traffic: lower Manhattan, the Las Vegas Strip, central Chicago and busy Houston corridors all had at least one.
• Some restaurants are only 24 hours in the drive-thru. Google showed the 180 W Adams St Chicago restaurant open 5:00 AM to midnight inside, with its drive-thru running to 3:00 AM.
• Check the day, not just the place. Several stores that look 24-hour on a weeknight shorten their lobby on another night, so read the whole weekly list on the restaurant page.

McDonald's Drive-Thru Hours vs Dining Room Hours

The drive-thru often outlasts the dining room. The Houston Kirby Dr page labels its 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM line as restaurant and lobby hours, which means a separate drive-thru schedule can sit on the same page. The 180 W Adams St example in Chicago is the sharpest case we saw: lobby until midnight, drive-thru until 3:00 AM.

Delivery is the odd one out. Google's listing for the 24-hour Houston restaurant at 9805 S Main St showed delivery as running with an end time of 3:59 AM, so even a restaurant that never closes can have a delivery cutoff.

McDonald's Hours on Saturday and Sunday

Weekends do not follow a national schedule either, and a quick way to waste a trip is to assume the weekday pattern carries over. If you plan a Sunday breakfast run, read that day's own row on the restaurant page instead of reusing a weekday time you remember. What changes most often is the breakfast end time, which commonly slides to 11:00 AM, and the late closing time on Friday and Saturday nights. A restaurant that closes at 11:00 PM on Monday may list midnight or later on weekend nights.

Is McDonald's Open Today, Right Now?

Use the status bar at the top of this page for a quick read on typical hours, then confirm on Google Maps or the McDonald's app, which pull the live schedule for your restaurant. A "Closed" tag on Google that appears during normal hours usually means a temporary change, such as a power problem or a staffing shortage.

• Open the restaurant locator and enter a ZIP code, then select the nearest restaurant to see its hours and services.
• Check the drive-thru line separately if you arrive after dark.
• Calling is a reasonable backup; the company's main customer line is 1-800-244-6227, but the restaurant's own number is faster for a closing-time question.

McDonald's Christmas and Holiday Hours

McDonald's franchised restaurants decide their own holiday schedules, so there is no chain-wide closure day. Some owners stay open all day, some trim hours and some close, particularly on Christmas Day and Thanksgiving.

These expectations come from general reporting, not from a McDonald's holiday policy, because we could not find one published. The reliable approach is to check the restaurant page or app a few days ahead; owners tend to update them close to the date.