10 calories a cup, and $1.69 was the only figure recorded for a small in August 2026.
One McDonald's Hot Tea price was recorded in August 2026, $1.69 for a small, which ties it with decaf as the cheapest thing in the McCafé section. McDonald's puts the cup at 10 calories and names the leaf on its own page: orange pekoe and pekoe cut black tea. Hot Tea is also the only drink in the section carrying no McCafé prefix on the menu.
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What you need
5 itemsHot Tea (Small) price and calories
| Item | Typical price | Price range | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Tea (Small) | $1.69 | — | 10 Cal |
If something goes wrong
Hot Tea is missing from the coffee menu I am looking at
- Cause
- It sits inside the McCafé section on McDonald's own menu while carrying no McCafé prefix in its name, so it drops out of anything organised strictly by brand label.
- Fix
- Search the full menu by name rather than by section. The drink is listed under McCafé at the restaurant.
There is no price range on this page
- Cause
- Only one figure came back for the drink in August 2026. A single reading is a data point, and drawing a band from it would suggest a confidence that does not exist.
- Fix
- Check the McDonald's app with the restaurant selected. Low-volume lines like this vary more than the headline items.
10 calories seems too low
- Cause
- That count covers the brewed tea alone. Anything added at the counter sits outside it, and a splash of milk or a sugar sachet moves the figure quickly.
- Fix
- Use the nutrition tool on the McDonald's product page and add whatever goes in the cup.
The odd one out in the McCafé section
Hot Tea announces its own oddity in the name. Every other drink in this section carries the McCafé prefix, and this one does not, yet McDonald's files it under McCafé all the same. Anyone scanning a coffee menu for it will scroll past it.
What's in it
Orange pekoe and pekoe cut black tea, which is exactly how McDonald's titles the product on its own page. Both are grading terms rather than flavour notes. Orange pekoe describes the size and part of the leaf that was picked, with no orange involved anywhere, and pekoe cut describes what the machinery did to it afterwards. What arrives at the counter is a bag, hot water and a lid. A small is 10 calories on the company's own count, which is the brewed tea on its own, before milk or sugar goes anywhere near it.
Is it worth it
$1.69 was the one figure recorded for a small in August 2026, the joint lowest in the whole McCafé section alongside decaf coffee. Very little of that is leaf. A single tea bag costs a few cents wholesale, so the price is almost entirely cup, hot water, a lid and the person who handed it over, which holds just as firmly at Starbucks, at Dunkin and at any independent café on the same street. Tea is where a hot-drinks markup is most visible and least avoidable.
Set it against the coffee sitting beside it. A small McCafé Premium Roast Coffee came back at $1.99 and 5 calories, so the tea is the cheaper cup by a small margin and the heavier one by five calories that nobody will ever notice. Against the cold drinks the gap turns real: a small Sweet Tea is 170 calories on McDonald's count, seventeen times this cup, because that one is sugar and this one is not.
The genuine oddity here is coverage rather than price. Hot Tea appears far less often in price listings than the coffees do, and the range column shows a dash for exactly that reason. One reading is not a band. Thin coverage says nothing about the drink itself; it is simply a low-volume line that gets skipped, and the same thinness is why a local check matters more here than it does on an iced coffee.
Macros and allergens could not be read for this product, as they could not be read anywhere else in the section, because a script draws those tables into the page after it has loaded. Calories were readable and belong to McDonald's. Roughly 95% of US restaurants are franchised on the company's own Form 10-K figure, so the operator sets the board and the app is the only place a binding number lives.
Hot Tea (Small) at a glance
- McDonald's price
- not published
- Calories
- 10, from McDonald's
- Typical price
- $1.69
Questions people ask
How much is a Hot Tea at McDonald's?
$1.69 for a small, from a single reading in August 2026. No price for it is published by the company. That figure ties with decaf coffee as the lowest recorded anywhere in the McCafé section.
How many calories are in a McDonald's Hot Tea?
10 for a small, on McDonald's own count, covering the brewed tea alone. Milk, sugar and honey are added afterwards and are not in that figure. Macros and allergens could not be read from the product page.
What kind of tea does McDonald's use?
Orange pekoe and pekoe cut black tea, as the company titles the product itself. Those are leaf grades, not flavourings, and no orange is involved.
Is this page an official McDonald's price list?
No. HelpMeLogin is independent and has no connection to McDonald's. The 10-calorie count is the company's; the $1.69 was recorded from a published US listing and checked in August 2026.
Can this site tell me the price at my local McDonald's?
No. Each franchisee prices its own board, and Hot Tea is a thinly listed line, so a local check matters more here than on the headline drinks. The McDonald's app shows the price at a chosen restaurant.