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$65 Find Cheap Flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento

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Cheapest round-trip
$287
Overall average: $477
American Airlines
Sat 12/13Wed 12/17
DFW - SMF • Non-stop
Cheapest one-way
$65
Typical prices: $146-$353
Frontier
Mon 12/8
DFW - SMF • 1 stop
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Frontier's Economy Bundle includes a carry-on and seat.
Use rideshare services at Sacramento Intl for downtown access.
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Cheap Flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento (DFW-SMF)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento 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 Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento

Sat, Dec 13 - Wed, Dec 17
American Airlines Logo
8:25 am - 10:18 amDFW-SMF
3h 53mnonstop
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7:15 am - 12:39 pmSMF-DFW
3h 24mnonstop
$287American Airlines
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Thu, Feb 19 - Wed, Feb 25
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8:00 am - 4:18 pmDFW-SMF
10h 18m2 stops
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3:00 pm - 4:39 amSMF-DFW
11h 39m1 stop
$288Alaska Airlines
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Thu, Dec 11 - Tue, Dec 16
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:40 am - 1:44 pmDFW-SMF
8h 04m1 stop
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8:16 am - 5:17 pmSMF-DFW
7h 01m1 stop
$289Alaska Airlines
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Mon, Jan 5 - Sun, Jan 11
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7:15 am - 11:57 amDFW-SMF
6h 42m1 stop
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12:05 pm - 9:39 amSMF-DFW
19h 34m1 stop
$296Frontier
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Fri, Nov 14 - Fri, Nov 21
Frontier Logo
5:35 am - 12:13 pmDFW-SMF
8h 38m1 stop
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2:10 pm - 12:17 amSMF-DFW
8h 07m1 stop
$298Frontier
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Tue, Dec 30 - Sat, Jan 17
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4:00 pm - 10:10 pmDFW-SMF
8h 10m1 stop
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2:47 pm - 11:45 pmSMF-DFW
6h 58m1 stop
$300Delta
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Thu, Nov 20 - Sun, Nov 23
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9:45 am - 3:22 pmDFW-SMF
7h 37m1 stop
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4:17 pm - 8:22 pmSMF-DFW
26h 05m1 stop
$301Multiple Airlines
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Wed, Nov 12 - Thu, Nov 13
Multiple Airlines Logo
10:34 pm - 11:26 amDFW-SMF
14h 52m2 stops
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6:16 pm - 4:58 amSMF-DFW
8h 42m1 stop
$302Multiple Airlines
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Sat, Mar 7 - Wed, Mar 11
Delta Logo
7:10 am - 1:27 pmDFW-SMF
8h 17m1 stop
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1:00 pm - 11:28 pmSMF-DFW
8h 28m1 stop
$303Delta
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Fri, Jan 30 - Mon, Feb 2
United Airlines Logo
1:43 pm - 7:39 pmDFW-SMF
7h 56m2 stops
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11:21 am - 9:34 pmSMF-DFW
8h 13m1 stop
$329United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento, you should consider leaving on a Thursday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, you’ll find the best rates on Tuesdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento, 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 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento is January, where tickets cost $321 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and March, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $477 and $461 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento, 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 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 25% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 18 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento

 
Snippets provided in this section are AI-generated based on a summarization of KAYAK-commissioned articles. The articles are presented as-is, for general informational purposes only, and may not be up-to-date. The opinions contained in the articles are original to the author and reflect their authentic experience, which may vary significantly from the experience of others.
KAYAK teamed up with top travel experts to share the best tips for your journey.
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American Airlines

Main Cabin Extra offers early boarding and complimentary drinks, ideal for comfort on longer flights.


Download the American Airlines app for inflight entertainment, as seatback screens are being removed.

Frontier

Consider the Economy Bundle for a free carry-on and seat selection, saving on extras.


Opt for Premium Bundle for priority boarding and extra legroom, just $20 more than Economy.

Read more about Frontierby Stefanie Waldek
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DFW

Use the airport’s app to check real-time security wait times and choose the shortest line, saving time before your flight.

Read more about DFWby Ramsey Qubein
SMF

For easy access to downtown, use the rideshare services directly outside baggage claim at SMF.

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An avid traveler and aviation expert who has visited 173 countries, all 50 states and seven continents, Ramsey Qubein flies nearly 400,000 miles a year. As a North Carolina-based freelance journalist for publications including Conde Nast Traveler, Forbes, USA Today and Bloomberg among others, he explores the latest trends in aviation, hospitality, cruises and business.

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Bill is an award-winning travel writer with extensive credits covering airlines and the aviation industry for publications including AARP, AFAR, The Points Guy and Yahoo. Based in Portland, Oregon, Bill has traveled to more than 75 countries - and been late for his flight in most of them. He once achieved top-level frequent flier status for all of American, Delta and United Airlines during a single year.

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Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$65
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 3% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 17% lower on average.
Flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento

When to book flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento was $65 for a one-way ticket and $287 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and Sacramento?

    Even though you are not required to have a passport, keep in mind that an official ID is needed to board the airplane.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    American Airlines, and Alaska Airlines offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    The Airbus A321-100/200 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and Sacramento, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    There are nonstop flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Dallas to Sacramento, Southwest or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Dallas to Sacramento are Southwest and Delta. With an average price for the route of $447 and an overall rating of 8.0, Southwest is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $326 and an overall rating of 7.9.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    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 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Sacramento from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport 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 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    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 to Sacramento with an airline and back to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport with another airline. Booking your flights between Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and SMF can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

    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 to Sacramento from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $327 or less one-way and $452 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Sacramento?

 
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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Dallas to Sacramento. 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 Dallas/Fort Worth to Sacramento? 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 4240 reviews
7.5Entertainment
8.1Boarding
7.0Food
8.0Comfort
8.6Crew
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Ever since Southwest starting charging for bags, passengers don't want to pay to check their bags, so the gate agents have to beg people to check their roller bags now because there's "not enough space". This was a terrible business move by Southwest.

8.0 ExcellentGreg, Oct 2025OAK - BUR
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Ever since Southwest starting charging for bags, passengers don't want to pay to check their bags, so the gate agents have to beg people to check their roller bags now because there's "not enough space". This was a terrible business move by Southwest.

Delays delays delays. Late taking off, late landing, wait for a gate, etc.

Connecting flight is on time and boarding was a breeze!

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.

Plz don't take away free bags and free seating

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.

Staff were friendly and happy. Delta could make sure passengers that don't have the app know of changes. Without Kayak I would not have known about the change of gate or the delay. Kayak was faster to notify me.

They changed planes and the new plane couldn’t carry enough fuel to fly across the country so we had to stop in Kansas City to refuel. Flight was delayed .

Flight was too crowded and seats are too small, especially since passengrs are getting larger. Having a middle seat is ALWAYS tough! Woman on my left was large & kept creeping in to my space. Flight personnel were great! Have more savory rather than sweet snacks please.

The crew took good care of us. The flight from ATL to SFO is a longer one, and there were multiple beverage offerings. I like the 757's that Delta uses. Good airplane that is comfortable. I do wish Delta would separate Priority boarding from the better seats. I would gladly take a smaller seat in an open row than be jammed into Comfort just to get priority boarding, just to make sure I don't have to check a bag.

Gate agent rushed to fill hot jetway with crowd so it took over 12 minutes to go from gate to plane. Just like a discount airline Pooly prepared cabin and third time that claim of rough air prevented any cabin service. Friends on a Southwest flight at similar time had service.

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

Flight was delayed leaving Dallas. Arrived about 2 hours later than scheduled.

The only thing to like was that we eventually got to our destination

Poor seat in rear of aircraft Food at Admiral’s Club Terminal D at DFW inedible

We were delayed for a “couple of maintenance issues.” They were resolved rather quickly but a computer glitch caused someone in the airport to have to bring a physical copy of the paperwork so we could leave. I don’t know where they had to drive from to get to our plane but it took forever & we were 1 1/2 hrs late in leaving. The flight itself was fine.

We didn't take off until an hour after we boarded.

The flight was fine. This survey is not. There is no option for N/A so items which don’t apply to my experience still must be rated. In those instances I give a “3” rating which ultimately skews the results.

The actual trip was fine, however, the changes made to our flights and the layovers were had to endure were awful.

Flight from Dallas to OKC was good, but my trip was interrupted due to a delayed flight from Austin to DFW, which happens all the time. I frequently miss my connection from DFW and American can never seem to make this work!

Because the plane was 90 degrees F, they would not let us board. I wish they had, because it meant we were delayed. It's Texas, of course it's hot. We would have survived.

Wish they had the seat-back video screens for watching movies or playing games.

Always comes in handy when I want a quick weekend getaway.

My luggage didn’t arrive at LAX, so that wasn’t a good experience.

I was never aware that I had to pay $100 per luggage to them on the plane that are simply carry-ons. This is discriminatory and I’m going to be alerting my entire family and friends and my Instagram following up over 75,000 of this issue and misunderstanding, including mismanaging.

Cancelled my flight last minute and did not help me rebook. It was a horrible experience.

Just total easy flight experience!! What could you do better..? Hmmm..? There was nothing I can remember. Spirit was a far more comfortable and easy process than American, United & Delta. I'll always look for Spirit and I've told a few people about, since flying this past trip!! I'm a SPIRIT FAN!! Thank You, SPIRIT AIRLINES!! Very, VERY well done, 100%!! See you...SOON!! -Best, Linda R.

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.

Great! We boarded on time! Everything went so smoothly! The flight was so smooth

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

Seats uncomfortable, hard to check luggage, etc. It was like the last flight out of Hanoi

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

Terrible. The canceled my entire flight when I requested a refund for a trip frontier canceled trip one way.

i was unable to check in the flight. refund requested

I think Frontier was very good at communication. Their app worked very well. Loading was great and the flight was nice and easy.

Great for the price. No wifi or entertainment, but gate agents and crew were fantastic and we boarded quickly and left on time.

Decent clean onboard experience. Okay discount airline experience. Unfortunately, any customer service interactions are difficult and unhelpful. There is no service. Also, a premium seat only gets you premium boarding if you line up first. Once they start general boarding you must go to the back of the line. Not very premium

The crew was mostly okay. The flight attendant who answered our questions was curt and unhelpful unfortunately. He seemed upset and I understand having off days.

We were delayed three times ,and that destroyed my plans, and reservations

Very bad! No good service delayed my second connection flight

They canceled flight. Hard to believe there was even a plane incoming for us to get on

Book with frontier airlines with the mentality that they'll cancel your flight, kick you off and lose your luggage. Anything besides that is a win. Compare prices with other airlines (to include luggage) and if frontier is still worth it, book it but know all of their policies.

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