Pneumatic tire

A pneumatic tire, comprising:

• a carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions;
• and
• two belt layers disposed outward of the carcass layer in a tire radial direction in a tread portion, the two belt layers each comprising a plurality of belt cords inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction, the plurality of belt cords of different of the belt layers being arranged in a criss-cross manner;
• in at least one of the two belt layers, an inclination angle α of the plurality of belt cords with respect to the tire circumferential direction at a tire center position and an inclination angle β of the plurality of belt cords with respect to the tire circumferential direction at a belt end position satisfying a relationship 15°≤β<α≤35°;
• and
• a maximum ground contact length L1 and a ground contact length L2 satisfying a relationship 0.8≤L2/L1≤1.0, where, with the pneumatic tire inflated to an air pressure of 240 kPa, loaded with a load 75% of standards-specified maximum load capacity, and brought into contact with a ground, L1 is the maximum ground contact length in the tire circumferential direction, W1 is a maximum ground contact width in a tire lateral direction, and L2 is the ground contact length in the tire circumferential direction at a position 40% of the maximum ground contact width W1 from the tire center position outward in the tire lateral direction;
• wherein
• the at least one belt layer compries a centrally located large-angle region where an inclination angle of the plurality of belt cords is in a range α±1° and a small-angle region on a shoulder side where an inclination angle of the plurality of belt cords is in a range β±1°;
• and
• a width of the large-angle region is ½ or greater of an entire width of the at least one belt layer, and a width of the small-angle region is ⅛ or greater of the entire width of the at least one belt layer.