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Cheap Flights from Albuquerque to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$199
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$164
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$145
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$274
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$243
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$250
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$259
Reno
Reno1 stop$271
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$250
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$199
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$164
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$145
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$274
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$243
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$250
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$259
Reno
Reno1 stop$271
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$250

Book Cheap Albuquerque to California Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Albuquerque to California that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Albuquerque to California

Sun, Sep 21 - Thu, Sep 25
Spirit Airlines Logo
2:19 pm - 2:59 pmABQ-LAS
1h 40mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
10:44 am - 1:24 pmLAS-ABQ
1h 40mnonstop
$94Spirit Airlines
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Thu, Oct 16 - Sun, Oct 19
Spirit Airlines Logo
2:17 pm - 2:53 pmABQ-LAS
1h 36mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
10:39 am - 1:22 pmLAS-ABQ
1h 43mnonstop
$96Spirit Airlines
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Sun, Dec 7 - Thu, Dec 11
Southwest Logo
5:10 pm - 5:50 pmABQ-LAS
1h 40mnonstop
Southwest Logo
8:00 am - 10:30 amLAS-ABQ
1h 30mnonstop
$143Southwest
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Wed, Nov 12 - Sun, Nov 16
Southwest Logo
4:10 pm - 4:50 pmABQ-LAS
1h 40mnonstop
Southwest Logo
10:25 pm - 12:50 amLAS-ABQ
1h 25mnonstop
$170Southwest
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Mon, Oct 20 - Thu, Oct 23
Delta Logo
5:55 pm - 11:22 pmABQ-LAS
6h 27m1 stop
Delta Logo
9:17 am - 5:09 pmLAS-ABQ
6h 52m1 stop
$199Delta
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Thu, Sep 25 - Sat, Sep 27
Delta Logo
6:40 pm - 11:14 pmABQ-LAS
5h 34m1 stop
Delta Logo
6:20 am - 11:57 amLAS-ABQ
4h 37m1 stop
$202Delta
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Sun, Sep 21 - Thu, Sep 25
American Airlines Logo
12:41 pm - 2:45 pmABQ-LAS
3h 04m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
10:00 am - 2:34 pmLAS-ABQ
3h 34m1 stop
$207American Airlines
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Mon, Nov 10 - Wed, Nov 12
United Airlines Logo
6:11 pm - 9:58 pmABQ-LAS
4h 47m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 2:06 pmLAS-ABQ
7h 06m1 stop
$209United Airlines
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Sat, Jan 24 - Sat, Jan 24
American Airlines Logo
6:18 am - 3:20 pmABQ-LAX
10h 02m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:57 pm - 9:52 pmLAX-ABQ
1h 55mnonstop
$211American Airlines
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Wed, Oct 29 - Wed, Nov 5
United Airlines Logo
3:45 pm - 10:45 pmABQ-PSP
8h 00m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
4:14 pm - 9:59 pmPSP-ABQ
4h 45m1 stop
$243United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Albuquerque to California flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Albuquerque to California to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a round-trip flight from Albuquerque to California?

What is the cheapest Albuquerque to California flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to California from Albuquerque found in the last 72 hours was to Los Angeles, at $164 round-trip. The most popular route is from Albuquerque (ABQ) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $164.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Albuquerque to California?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

Yes, flying with a layover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 2 stops layover the cheapest option at $319 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Albuquerque to California?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Albuquerque to California, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Albuquerque to California is September, when tickets cost $243 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and December, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $353 and $348 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Albuquerque to California?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Albuquerque to California clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Albuquerque to California, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Albuquerque, you’ll find the best rates on Tuesdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Albuquerque to California?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Albuquerque to California, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Albuquerque to California, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 46% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 9 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$34
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 1% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 7% lower on average.
Flight from Albuquerque to Las Vegas

FAQs - booking California flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Albuquerque to California?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Albuquerque to California.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Albuquerque to California?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Albuquerque to California is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Albuquerque to California?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly from Albuquerque to California with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Albuquerque to California?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from Albuquerque to California up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to California?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to California is generally in the afternoon, when round-trip flights cost $354 on average. Morning departures are around 8% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $625.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Albuquerque to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $152 one-way - $162 round-trip; Los Angeles $139 one-way - $314 round-trip; San Francisco $188 one-way - $443 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Albuquerque to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Albuquerque to California. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Albuquerque to California? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4238 reviews
8.0Comfort
7.5Entertainment
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
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Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

10.0 ExcellentGordon, Jul 2025GEG - OAK
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Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

First time traveling on Southwest since bag fees were implemented. Usual good service. Just more expensive now.

It was a perfect flight in all aspects! Both legs!

Boarding process, crew were good. But the seats were so uncomfortable that was all I could focus on. I literally had to sit forward so that all 3 of us could fit in row. I will try to avoid Southwest in the future for any flights over 60 minutes.

Great flight, 47 passengers on a 180 seat plane. Stewardess was pleasant and cheerful.

Great experience flying Southwest. The crew was really kind and helpful, and very friendly with our toddler.

Plane late from DC to Austin 30 minutes. Crew made up much of the time enroute to San Diego.

Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

Was as expected. Crowed planes. Too many carryons delaying takeoff. But the ride only took an hour and saved me a lot of time SFO is a not a great airport.

I will be flying again Southwest Airlines. Friendly crew, comfortable and affordable.

The flight crew was friendly. I tried to adjust my seat online ahead of time but no option existed without additional fees. My friend asked at the gate about a seat change and was able to make it happen. That was great! The flight crew moved a very tall gentleman and his companion which allowed us to have more space which was nice. Overall, good experience. Appreciated the blanket and pillow.

I was uncomfortably cold on the plane. Other than that it was uneventful and therefore as enjoyable as a plane ride can be.

Food was surprisingly good but the WiFi was not great

My flight was extremely cold. I had a jacket and a cover was left in each seat. The cover was extremely thin and I have a disability, fibromyalgia and arthrithis and AC air is the worst. I closed my vent and my husbands vent and it still was frigid. I asked the attendant if I could get another cover and she quickly almost dismissively and totally unconcerned stating, (I quote) (one per chair) and walked off so quickly that I didn't get a chance to explain to her that I literally have adisability. I didnt want to make a seen so I set on that flight for over 5 hours in pain, joints locking up and extremely uncomfortable. When my fibromyalgia flares up my joints not only ache but they will lock up also and it takes me days to get back to my regular self even though I take medication for it. I felt like it would not have hurt anyone at all for her to just give me an extra cover because I'm sure they have all types of medical issues in people that fly every day.

Not a "Delta" issue, but a JFK issue: We booked a connecting flight with 3 1/2 hours between to clearn immigration and customs. Our inbound flight (BCN to JFK) was on the taxiway 45 minutes which ate into our layover time. Immigtration was insanely quick with the CBP MPC app; however, clearing TSA (again, after we were ALREADY cleared in Spain on the inbound international flight) took over 95 minutes. This left us with 10 minutes before boarding the connecting flight (JFK to SAN) to walk to the far end of Terminal 4 and try to find food. We didn't find any food that could promise to serve us in under 10 minutes so we boarded the Delta flight after coming off a plance and an 8-hour flight knowing that we wouldn't be served any food on the next 5 1/2 hour flight. I feel like Delta needs to put pressure on the JFK TSA to open more screening stations (by our count, we saw only 5 scanners open and a line of - as we said - over 90 minutes. The insult is that we WERE ALREADY SCREENED through TSA, but as you come off one flight into the USA, you have to go through the whole process again. It seems like if you have a connecting flight, there should be a way to pass through immigration and customs without needing to return through TSA.

There are 4 flights in consecutive gates with about the same departure time. Two flights were boarding at the same time. One was delayed or boarding would be happening at the same time. I am not sure what Delta and LAX need to do to have a better layout at the end of Terminal 2

5 hours of delay that could've been much shorter if Delta had taken the 1 hour delay they imposed on the flight before boarding to run any of the plane checks required for flight to find the hydraulic issue that required nearly 3 hours to fix. $24 of meal credit buys a sandwich and a soft drink. Poor communication within the terminal about what gate we'd be re-boarding from and when we'd be re-boarding.

The entertainment and wifi mostly didn't work on this flight.

Terrible entertainment system - kept freezing and audio kept cutting out. Snacks were mediocre at best for a 5 hour flight.

I am still upset that my bag was lost on a recent trip to Rome ; we were inconvenienced and out €150 Euros ; delta has refused to reimburse us

The flight was comfortable with the exit row and great service

Plane was crowded and even when we hit altitude, the plane was hot, not enough air flow.

1. when we went to check in, our 2 first class seats had been CANCELED and the flight was sold out. This was done without our prior knowledge. It was all we could do to restore one first class seat for my wife and I flew economy. 2, Our flight home was scheduled to leave at 10:30 pm. Due to tsunami warnings, the roads were closed and our flight status was uncertain as to whether it would leave as scheduled. It was announced that it would now leave at 11:20 pm and the roads were now open since the tsunami had come and gone. We made a mad dash to the airport and checked in. Delays were announced at 12:30 pm, 1:30 am, 2:30 am and at 3:30 am it was canceled. Since this was a flight due to natural (tsunami) causes, there was no compensation. We were told to return at 1:00 pm the next day and our baggage would be kept on the plane since the same plane was going to leave at 1:00 pm. We had to return to our hotel for the rest of the night. The same plane did not leave at 1:00 pm and our baggage was gone! All in all, it was a miserable performance by UA. Information was hard to obtain and no one knew what was going on and what was going to happen. Hundreds of passengers slept on the floor, chairs, etc. No food and no water was made available to the passengers. It was a situation where UA could care less what was going on. As a one million mile flyer, I had not experienced anything like this before and it was hugely disappointing!

Boarded plane and then delayed 1.5 hours while on the plane

Horrific. They missed my connecting flight to San Diego. I didn’t get there until Monday at 9am when I had a mandatory court settlement conference scheduled at 6am since we had parties on the east coast. This caused many issues. All because United apparently forgot to hold the doors open until my flight landed that only had a 10 minute delay. This was the last flight to Southern California. So I couldn’t even rent a car to finish the trip. United cannot be trusted when traveling on specific days and times since weather didn’t have anything to do with the delays.

My flight was delayed a very short period of time but they did not hold my connecting flight to San Diego, also through United. So they closed the doors before we got off our plane. They would only have to help the door open for another five to ten minutes. So I missed a court deadline for a manditory mediation settlement conference for my client. I had to get an associate to be there in person and be on the phone with him relaying what he needs to do the entire time. The court was very upset with me and so was my client. United cannot be trusted.

We were given vouchers we couldn’t use with a 5.5 hour delay

Really good 😊 the woman at the gate entrance was a little rude checking in our carry-on but i dont think she worked for the airline, she worked for the airport at sacramento, other than that amazing.

Boarding was mayhem. Late boarding by 15 minutes because of lack of staff (missing 1 flight attendant. We had to wait for an arrival of another plane before we could board). Flight was a little rough, but cannot blame on airlines.

Great experience…left a bit behind schedule but made up fir that in the air and landed 10 minutes early 😁

Did not get the seat I selected and paid for.

My flight was delayed for several hours. Sitting at gate 16 for several hours, I got a text from Kayak the gate changed to 9 before it was announced. Very bad communication at each gate from American Airlines employees. I received 10 notifications of delay from Kayak. My vacation started off horrible! I will write to American Airlines corporate office also.

Delayed flight that lead to a missed connection and a 5-hour trip became a 12-hour flight 🙄

There is no room, no gluten free options, or any free internet/entertainment. You have to bring your own tablet or smartphone because there are no screens.

Amazing food, great staff, with one noticable detail missing ...but no seat entertainment in any of aircraft ...I am not a fan

Boarding gate in Honolulu was staffed with a great clerk with a soothing voice despite the flight delay of over an hour. Flight attendants in the plane were all grumpy, not pleasant looking bunch. Their sour attitude showed throughout the flight. Inly able to get a select few movies started. Most of the movie links in the “free entertainment” did not work.

This was a horrible experience. For a first class experience, my chair was held together by 3M tape - and I have a photo. The crew weren’t very attentive, somewhat dismissive and forgot my drink and snack, the chair reclined about 3 inches on a 6-hour cross country flight. I was also not informed that there was no lounge available in Newark airport because of renovations, so all around this was one of the worst experiences and I would actively avoid both American and Alaska Air going forward.

Boarding was very efficient. Everyone got on board and we got on our way very quickly. It was frustrating that the entertainment app was not functioning properly. I was not able to activate some of the movies offered. The crew on this flight appears to be pretty grumpy. They had no smile on their faces. I felt like they were doing us a favor for being there.

Loved the staff, boarding and drink options! Wish the comfort of the seat could have been better nevertheless

Honestly, I haven’t flown American in years, probably due to the pandemic and my being unable to travel for certain periods in the last two years, but it was a good experience to dig out or obtain a new American Airlines account after many years of traveling for business with American in the past.

Late departure by 1:45min. No explanation why. During boarding inconsistent policing of their baggage rules. Before takeoff and lamdimg strange obsession with window shade and armrest positions. Don't know why they care. 15 min tarmac delay on arrival, they blamed airport congestion but we were the o lh flight waiting, it was clear it was due to poor staff planning (only one ground crew to receive airplanes and multiple arrivals) Got there but was rrally lame the whole trip.

Boarding was a breeze, however, two of the flights that I boarded with Spirit did not have Wi-Fi available.

Very good. Nothing more or less than expected. No complaints.

My experience with the spirit as a first time it was OK, but the seats need a little cushion, the problem I had the most impacted me was when checking in the scales were so off and wrong. It will tell that you would have more weight, which was not true. The scale was say that it had Thirty Eight Pounds, when get in the labels when we send the luggage into the band. It says that it was overweight. I really really dislike that because the scales are not accurate. If I use Spirit and I have that issue again. That will be my last time flying with the spirit, even though I like so much to service the planes, and everything else

hahaha we are delayed for one hour plus.. but thx we arrived San Diego safe

Worst airline ever! The guy weighing my bag had his foot on the metal plate and when I called him out on it, I got this stupid little smirk. La is a scam and so is Spirit Airlines. All the flight attendants looked like they hated our flight just as much as we did.

Unclear pricing; ended up being charged an extra $52 just to get onboard

Spirit is awful. Too expensive for what you get. Stop nickel and diming.

would be great to get basic water, soda at least and stop charging for carry ons

Your crew is a representation of your Standards and Values. The crew from Seattle to LAX, was very disappointing. The crew was more interested in hanging out at the lobby area. Talking, laughing loudly and eating all the snacks. They did not do regular rounds to see if customers needed anything. This was a huge disappointment. I will no longer be flying with your airlines moving forward.

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