$363 Find Cheap Flights from Edinburgh to California

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Cheap Flights from Edinburgh to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$470
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$632
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$733
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$781
Palm Springs
Palm Springs2 stops$824
Reno
Reno2 stops$830
Sacramento
Sacramento2 stops$822
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$470
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$632
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$733
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$781
Palm Springs
Palm Springs2 stops$824
Reno
Reno2 stops$830
Sacramento
Sacramento2 stops$822

Book Cheap Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh to California

Thu, Sep 25 - Sun, Sep 28
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9:15 pm - 2:10 pmEDI-LAX
24h 55m1 stop
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4:30 pm - 9:40 amLAX-EDI
33h 10m1 stop
Thu, Sep 11 - Sun, Sep 21
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6:00 am - 2:00 pmEDI-LAX
16h 00m1 stop
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4:30 pm - 8:45 pmLAX-EDI
20h 15m1 stop
Fri, Aug 29 - Fri, Sep 5
Scandinavian Airlines Logo
8:45 pm - 4:20 pmEDI-LAX
27h 35m1 stop
Scandinavian Airlines Logo
7:30 pm - 10:55 amLAX-EDI
31h 25m2 stops
$567Scandinavian Airlines
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Tue, Oct 21 - Fri, Oct 24
Scandinavian Airlines Logo
1:20 pm - 4:20 pmEDI-LAX
35h 00m2 stops
Scandinavian Airlines Logo
7:30 pm - 9:30 amLAX-EDI
54h 00m2 stops
$582Scandinavian Airlines
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Sat, Nov 22 - Mon, Nov 24
British Airways Logo
8:15 am - 3:20 pmEDI-LAX
15h 05m1 stop
British Airways Logo
5:35 pm - 5:00 pmLAX-EDI
15h 25m1 stop
$668British Airways
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Thu, Sep 11 - Wed, Sep 17
British Airways Logo
9:25 am - 5:35 pmEDI-LAX
16h 10m1 stop
British Airways Logo
8:05 pm - 6:15 pmLAX-EDI
14h 10m1 stop
$685British Airways
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Wed, Oct 8 - Mon, Oct 13
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2:05 pm - 11:47 pmEDI-SAN
17h 42m1 stop
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7:40 am - 10:45 amSAN-EDI
19h 05m2 stops
$739Delta
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Wed, Oct 8 - Mon, Oct 13
Delta Logo
6:00 am - 3:19 pmEDI-SAN
17h 19m2 stops
Delta Logo
7:40 am - 10:45 amSAN-EDI
19h 05m2 stops
$741Delta
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Wed, Sep 24 - Tue, Sep 30
United Airlines Logo
9:00 am - 9:10 amEDI-SFO
32h 10m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
8:25 am - 8:25 amSFO-EDI
16h 00m1 stop
$770United Airlines
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Wed, Sep 24 - Tue, Sep 30
United Airlines Logo
9:00 am - 10:33 amEDI-SFO
33h 33m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
10:37 am - 8:25 amSFO-EDI
13h 48m1 stop
$775United Airlines
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Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Edinburgh to California flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh to California?

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh to California is February, when tickets cost $654 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and December, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,087 and $1,044 respectively.

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

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

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to California on a Wednesday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Saturday is the most expensive day to fly from Edinburgh to California. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Monday and avoiding Saturdays for the best deals.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh to California, you should book around 5 weeks before departure, which saves you about 42% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 22 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$363
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 14% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 24% increase in price.
Flight from Edinburgh to Los Angeles

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 $891 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 $938.

Reviews of the top 3 airlines serving from Edinburgh to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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.
8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 7980 reviews
8.5Crew
8.2Boarding
7.9Entertainment
7.9Comfort
7.3Food
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Food was surprisingly good but the WiFi was not great

8.0 ExcellentPrincess, Jul 2025SEA - LAX
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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

This had nothing to do with Delta… The flights were on time and flawless. The service was excellent. We purchased seats in (aisle/middle) comfort plus since this was a cross country flight. Unfortunately, the woman seated at the window was 300+ pounds and, as might be expected, covered up about a third of the middle seat also. there was absolutely nothing that Delta could have done about that… I just don’t know what the answer should be. If you purchase a seat, you should should be able to use the entire seat and not just the portion that someone else is not sitting/oozing in. Disappointing…there should be something that could be done….I'm just not sure what solution could be.

I love the free WiFi!! Crew was nice. Bathroom was decent. First time flying delta in a long time and I enjoyed it. Will definitely look into booking with Delta more but I think Delta is a little more expensive than the other airlines.

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

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.

Excellent everywhere but Philly, the most rotten airport in the world.

Check in was not the greatest as had to talk to an agent to clarify things and then he transferred us to another agent who had difficulty processing my credit card as there was a system glitch and not a card error.

I was put into business class. Wow! My flight attendant was great! The food amazing’

The gate at London Gatwick had confusing signs for the different zones and the staff seemed harried because people didn't know when it was their turn to come to the desk. Plus, with there were too many carry-on bag travelers, myself included. The charge scheme for checking bags is frustrating. If you travel light, you want the freedom to leave as soon as you deplane. When you are forced to gate-check your bag simply because the flight is fully booked, you lose whatever time you'd hoped to save because you're still stuck waiting for your bag to come off the conveyor belt.

Not so good with their baggage handling as they damaged one of my check in luggage

All went well on the flight, not happy of course with having to pay for a seat and in hold luggage of £50

The air hostess were good, cheerful, but I didn't like the boarding. My son and I initially bought our flight tickets, making sure it included 1 luggage and a carry on. Tickets were purchased for British airlines, but we were merged with American Airlines. At checking in our languages, we were told, we don't have luggage prepaid so we had to pay extra $125 each and almost £60 on our way back. I think that's unfair.

On time. Clean. Efficient. Just what is required for the short hop.

The crew were good. The flight was on time. The entertainment choice was ok. But the food was bad, tasted and texture were awful.

All service prior to the flight was terrible: online check-in not working, no customer service tel,, multiple airport scanners not working, A huge mess.

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