A spark plug in which the center electrode is formed by laser welding along the circumference of a joint surface between a center electrode base metal and a noble metal tip in excess of full circumference. When G represents a spark gap and A represents a shortest gap between a laser weld bead and a line drawn parallel with axis X, A≦3G. Straight lines S1 and S2 which connect the center of the noble metal tip 1 and the circumferential center of a proximal end 52 of the ground electrode 51 and vertex 8 of a protrusion 7 formed at a final end portion 6e of a bead 6 formed by circumferential laser welding, respectively, form an angle θ of 45 degrees. Since the protrusion 7 of the bead is the angle θ away from the ground electrode 51, an abnormal discharge is unlikely to be generated.