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Cheap Flights from Beijing to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$526
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$709
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$1,000
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$1,019
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$526
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$709
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$1,000
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$1,019

Book Cheap Beijing 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 Beijing 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 Beijing to California

Tue, Oct 7 - Tue, Nov 25
Sichuan Airlines Logo
3:30 pm - 8:45 pmPEK-LAX
20h 15m1 stop
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9:30 pm - 2:10 pmLAX-PEK
24h 40m2 stops
$526Sichuan Airlines
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Thu, Oct 16 - Sun, Nov 2
Sichuan Airlines Logo
8:15 pm - 8:45 pmPEK-LAX
39h 30m1 stop
Sichuan Airlines Logo
9:30 pm - 2:10 pmLAX-PEK
24h 40m2 stops
$531Sichuan Airlines
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Tue, Oct 7 - Tue, Nov 25
China Eastern Logo
7:00 am - 10:05 amPEK-LAX
18h 05m1 stop
China Eastern Logo
11:30 am - 9:50 pmLAX-PEK
18h 20m1 stop
$612China Eastern
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Tue, Oct 14 - Tue, Oct 21
China Eastern Logo
7:00 am - 10:05 amPEK-LAX
18h 05m1 stop
China Eastern Logo
12:30 pm - 11:50 pmLAX-PEK
20h 20m1 stop
$628China Eastern
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Mon, Oct 6 - Fri, Mar 20
Asiana Airlines Logo
10:40 am - 3:30 pmPEK-SFO
19h 50m1 stop
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11:30 pm - 4:25 pmSFO-PEK
25h 55m1 stop
$709Asiana Airlines
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Sat, Nov 1 - Sat, Nov 8
Asiana Airlines Logo
10:40 am - 4:00 pmPEK-LAX
20h 20m1 stop
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11:00 pm - 4:25 pmLAX-PEK
25h 25m1 stop
$709Asiana Airlines
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Fri, Oct 31 - Sat, Nov 8
Cathay Pacific Logo
3:25 am - 10:45 amPEK-SFO
22h 20m1 stop
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9:45 pm - 10:45 amSFO-PEK
21h 00m1 stop
$724Cathay Pacific
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Tue, Nov 4 - Wed, Nov 26
Cathay Pacific Logo
3:25 am - 9:45 amPEK-SFO
22h 20m1 stop
Cathay Pacific Logo
11:25 am - 12:55 amSFO-PEK
21h 30m1 stop
$743Cathay Pacific
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Sat, Nov 1 - Sun, Feb 1
United Airlines Logo
7:20 pm - 11:05 amPEK-SJC
30h 45m2 stops
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8:40 am - 5:25 pmSJC-PEK
40h 45m2 stops
$1,000United Airlines
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Fri, Oct 31 - Fri, Nov 7
United Airlines Logo
7:20 pm - 2:37 pmPEK-LAS
34h 17m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 5:25 pmLAS-PEK
19h 25m1 stop
$1,057United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Beijing to California flights

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

What is the cheapest Beijing Capital Airport to California flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to California from Beijing Capital Airport found in the last 72 hours was to San Francisco, at $955 round-trip. The most popular route is from Beijing Capital Airport (PEK) to San Francisco (SFO), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $955.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Beijing Capital Airport 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 1 stop layover the cheapest option at $853 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Beijing Capital Airport to California?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Beijing Capital Airport 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 Beijing Capital Airport to California is August, when tickets cost $703 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and September, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,464 and $1,252 respectively.

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

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

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

Good to know

Low seasonAugust
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 3% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 15% increase in price.

FAQs - booking California flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Beijing 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 Beijing to California.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Beijing 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 Beijing 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 Beijing 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 Beijing 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 Beijing 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 morning, when round-trip flights cost $1,259 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally in the afternoon, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,626.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Beijing to the following destinations at these prices or less: Los Angeles $652 one-way - $1,236 round-trip; San Francisco $621 one-way - $1,000 round-trip

Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from Beijing to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Beijing 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 Beijing 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.
8.2
Asiana AirlinesOverall score based on 481 reviews
8.1Food
8.4Boarding
7.7Entertainment
8.1Comfort
8.6Crew
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2nd major delay due to maintenance issues. 1st delay missed my connecting flight.

2.0 MediocreEdward, Aug 2025KIX - ICN
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2nd major delay due to maintenance issues. 1st delay missed my connecting flight.

It was great, but my bag was not loaded onto the connecting flight. I'm currently getting it resolved. If this isn't a problem, everything else was excellent.

The aircraft was massive (A-380) and became crowded with 400+ passengers on board.

The plane hasnt left im stuck in seatle still my flight has been grounded for almost 5 hours

My luggage didn’t arrive with my flight. Flight was delayed by nearly 2 hours while we sat on the plane and I almost missed my connecting flight and subsequently missed the last train from the airport so it took me another 2 hours to get to my destination after arriving, Crew skipped me several times when offering beverages, and I couldn’t get their attention at times because they wouldn’t even make eye contact with me. They didn’t give me a form for disembarking so I had to go to the back of the line after waiting an eternity for immigration. Paid for on flight wi- fi that didn’t work for most of the flight.

Love flying Asiana. Been using it for over a decade now.

Coming back to America was a peaceful flight everyone and everything was perfect

I had a bad experience coming from America to Thailand. On my connecting flight my check in suitcase was not put on the departing aircraft, I received my suitcase 24 hours after arriving in Bangkok and when I open my luggage my hand swelled up. The next morning when I put on an outfit from my suitcase my face swelled up and became numb. My entire vacation was ruined it seems that some kind of chemical was sprayed into suitcase and ruined my clothes and got me sick. The staff at my hotel called the airline and spoke to someone and they told me to file a complaint and gave my a website to do so. I did not file a complaint I felt like it would have fell on death ears. I had to throw away my brand new vacation clothes and suitcase and I had the worst vacation ever due to this happening to me.

The beefsteak on the lunch menu was excellent! I usually do not eat airplane food. I loved it.

Flight was too cold. I wore a regular cotton tee and it wasn’t enough. It was a night time flight so I would have thought a blanket would be provided to passengers. A 4 hour flight and no options for a meal? I flew Asiana the next day from Seoul to Manilla. Same duration, 4 hours. They give everyone a pillow and blanket and serve a meal. Why is United so cheap and holding back meals and amenities? Also, they promote too much gay stuff and DEI in their advertisements. Please be mindful of other beliefs and don’t shove your gay ideology down my throat.

Great entertainment system, the seat is a bit old style needs refurbishment

Just want to do a little more clean up so does not smell like urine.

Check in process at the kiosk, crew in flight and overall comfort was good. Food selection could have been better. Flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles did not have any vegetarian main course option, it was either sea food or chicken. Being a vegetarian I could only eat yogurt and fruit. Most international flights have one vegetarian main course dish which I found missing in Cathay Pacific menu.

Paid a premium a have a shorter transit time in Hong Kong, but Cathay pacific rebooked me and ended up waiting for 10 hrs in Hong Hong airport.

Cabin crew is very helpful and nice, it is another level of service compared to Air Canada

The only problem I had was not being able to download my boarding passes prior to arriving at the airport. Everything else was perfect.

They ran out of food and were offering random food to passengers.

The food and service was great. You have to pay a lot for in flight Internet though which is lame.

I had high expectations but met with a below average experience. I hope the Airline will take a notice and improve.

Special request meals are really below average. Vegetarian options are very limited if you didn't prebook.

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!

I found the staff to not be very attentive at all. When paying for Business Class you expect a certain type of service and that was not found. They were almost rude even

Ok. Get a different kosher caterer. The food was odd.

Our experience on United Airlines was extremely poor. The plane was extremely cold throughout our entire flight- which multiple people complained about- and we had to wait 2 hours to get a blanket which was too thin and barely helped warm us up. As well as this, none of the entertainment features were working so we had to sit through a roughly 10 hour flight with nothing to keep our attention, including the actual flight path screen. It was an extremely disappointing experience and I would hope that this gets fixed if we ever choose United Airlines again.

I really enjoyed flying with United airlines amazing experience , good customer service and great food

1.It will be better if sandwich is warm. 2.The food is too salty. 3.Breakfast needs some vegetables or fruits.

Boarded plane and then delayed 1.5 hours while on the plane

It was all good flight was on time, service was good I enjoyed a few movies and everything was smooth

Nothing to complain of, the only reason I am not giving better marks is that I am used to flying with ANA and they are the top.

It's terrible that we can't do online check in because we didn't buy the tickets directly from Air china. It was not explained until I contacted Chatdeal and we could not sit together.

Communication between the captain/crew and the passengers needs to be improved.

Food and service are good. Bathroom was lack of lotions and cleaning. That should be improved.

Food & service very good next I will pick up again

Chinese flight attendants didn't speak english well. They didn't care enough to remember that I (east asian who isn't Chinese) wasn't Chinese and spoke English. Announcement in english on board was poor and I find it very difficult to understand what was announced. Also, a cabin bag allows only 5kg!

Everything was not satisfactory - the flight was delayed, staffs were ok but they didn't speak English well. I am from east Asia (not Chinese) and they didn't care enough to remember that I wasn't Chinese but persistently spoke chinese to me. The flight announcement in english wasn't clear to understand.

I wish I had been able to choose a vegetarian meal. Crew friendly and helpful. Seat was ok. All quite efficient and pleasant. Would recommend for inner China travel for sure.

The flight is not bad, but the Business Lounge is not big enough for the quantity of people they accept and there is a limited options for food and beverages.

It was simply bad and on top of that my luggage hasn't been delivered until now. They can't even localize it which is just unacceptable when they are supposed to scan the bar code they put when we check in

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