A pneumatic tire, comprising a carcass having a carcass ply_(6a) with a folded part (6b) folded up around a bead core (5) from the axial inside to the axial outside of the tire continuously fitted to a ply body part (6a) installed across the bead cores (5) and (5), wherein the intermediate elongation (Es) of a carcass cord in the ply body part (6a) at the maximum width position (M) is smaller than the intermediate elongation (Eb) thereof at the height position (B) of the bead core at the radial outermost end of the tire.