$41 Find Cheap Flights from El Paso to California

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from El Paso to California departing on 11/5. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
1 adult
1 adult, Economy

KAYAK searches hundreds of travel sites at once for deals on flights to California

 
These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from El Paso to California, as well as popular online travel agencies
These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from El Paso to California, as well as popular online travel agencies
Travelers love KAYAK
41,299,237 searches in the past 7 days on KAYAK

Save 22% or moreCompare multiple travel sites with one search.

Track pricesNot ready to book? Create a price alert for when prices drop.

Bundle and saveSave money when you bundle your flight + hotel.

Filter your dealsChoose cabin class, free Wi-Fi and more.

Flight Deals
Booking Insights
Flight Deals

Cheap Flights from El Paso to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$200
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$143
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$144
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$180
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$267
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$261
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$248
Reno
Reno1 stop$287
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$200
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$200
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$143
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$144
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$180
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$267
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$261
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$248
Reno
Reno1 stop$287
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$200

Book Cheap El Paso 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 El Paso 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from El Paso to California

Sat, Sep 6 - Sat, Sep 13
Frontier Logo
2:44 pm - 3:43 pmELP-LAS
1h 59mnonstop
Frontier Logo
10:45 am - 1:44 pmLAS-ELP
1h 59mnonstop
$99Frontier
Find Deal
Wed, Oct 15 - Wed, Oct 29
Frontier Logo
12:10 pm - 1:07 pmELP-LAS
1h 57mnonstop
Frontier Logo
10:25 am - 1:20 pmLAS-ELP
1h 55mnonstop
$100Frontier
Find Deal
Thu, Oct 2 - Tue, Oct 14
 Logo
12:27 pm - 4:50 pmELP-SMF
5h 23m1 stop
 Logo
5:12 pm - 11:25 amSMF-ELP
17h 13m1 stop
Fri, Sep 19 - Sun, Sep 21
 Logo
12:27 pm - 11:32 pmELP-OAK
12h 05m1 stop
 Logo
6:30 am - 11:27 amOAK-ELP
27h 57m1 stop
Mon, Sep 22 - Thu, Sep 25
American Airlines Logo
12:41 pm - 7:02 pmELP-SFO
7h 21m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:45 am - 12:09 pmSFO-ELP
4h 24m1 stop
$235American Airlines
Find Deal
Wed, Sep 3 - Wed, Sep 3
American Airlines Logo
6:25 am - 7:35 amELP-LAX
2h 10mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
6:54 pm - 9:54 pmLAX-ELP
2h 00mnonstop
$243American Airlines
Find Deal
Sat, Sep 20 - Mon, Sep 22
Southwest Logo
2:05 pm - 2:55 pmELP-SAN
1h 50mnonstop
Southwest Logo
9:45 am - 12:45 pmSAN-ELP
2h 00mnonstop
$269Southwest
Find Deal
Wed, Oct 8 - Sat, Oct 25
Southwest Logo
7:45 pm - 10:05 pmELP-ONT
3h 20m1 stop
Southwest Logo
8:00 am - 3:20 pmONT-ELP
6h 20m2 stops
$272Southwest
Find Deal
Fri, Sep 26 - Mon, Sep 29
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:25 pm - 10:21 amELP-OAK
15h 56m1 stop
Alaska Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 6:38 pmOAK-ELP
11h 23m1 stop
$301Alaska Airlines
Find Deal
Fri, Oct 17 - Mon, Oct 20
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:12 pm - 10:23 amELP-OAK
16h 11m1 stop
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:06 pm - 6:32 pmOAK-ELP
22h 26m2 stops
$364Alaska Airlines
Find Deal
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for El Paso to California flights

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

What is the cheapest El Paso to California flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to California from El Paso found in the last 72 hours was to Ontario, at $115 round-trip. The most popular route is from El Paso (ELP) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $217.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from El Paso 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 $470 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from El Paso to California?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from El Paso 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 El Paso to California is September, when tickets cost $283 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and March, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $386 and $378 respectively.

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

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

When flying from El Paso to California, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Wednesdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to El Paso, 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 El Paso 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 El Paso 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 El Paso to California, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 38% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 8 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$41
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 5% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 14% lower on average.
Flight from El Paso to Las Vegas

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from El Paso 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 El Paso 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 El Paso 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 El Paso 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 El Paso 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 $353 on average. Morning departures are around 42% 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 $562.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from El Paso to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $99 one-way - $135 round-trip; Los Angeles $183 one-way - $322 round-trip; San Diego $112 one-way - $234 round-trip

Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from El Paso to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from El Paso 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 El Paso 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
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 10000 reviews
8.1Boarding
7.0Entertainment
8.5Crew
7.8Comfort
7.1Food
Airline reviews

Agent boarding us in San Diego lectured me on showing up on time for the flight, and said that if I had been three minutes later, he would have denied myself and my wife boarding. Our trusted traveler numbers were not in the system, even though I entered them when I bought the tickets. Our food orders were not in the system, even though I entered them prior to the flight. My wife requires a wheelchair, and that was delayed on both flights.

4.0 OkayAnonymous, Aug 2025SEA - SAN
Read more Alaska Airlines reviews

Agent boarding us in San Diego lectured me on showing up on time for the flight, and said that if I had been three minutes later, he would have denied myself and my wife boarding. Our trusted traveler numbers were not in the system, even though I entered them when I bought the tickets. Our food orders were not in the system, even though I entered them prior to the flight. My wife requires a wheelchair, and that was delayed on both flights.

It was fine—the seats are not very comfortable and the aisles are very narrow. Nothing different from other airlines

Unfortunately 4 hour 40 minute delay because of airport then one hour into flight diverted back to Kona elderly man on plane got heart attack trying to get home some how

Seats are so small now that it's very hard even for a medium-sized person to be comfortable!!!

My experience would’ve been great because we were on a new plane, but they said as we boarded that the plane would be too new to have WiFi, which to me is unreasonable - newer planes should def have WiFi! It was a 5 hour flight from Anchorage to San Fran and because there was no WiFi, I had to take an unexpected half day off work, which was super annoying because I had a lot to do and we only found out a few minutes before takeoff.

Such great crew, from checkin to the plane. So friendly and helpful, I was genuinely impressed.

Hawaiian Airlines, like most US-based ones, constantly provide sub-par service and pack their planes to the max with all kinds of last-minute-purchase schemes. As a result, it makes every flight so uncomfortable and generates high health risk for its passengers. In one word, GREED rules the day!

Well the flight being delayed multiple time really was frustrating. But the crew and flight was good.

Staff at Gate desk were helpful. My connecting flight from the first part of my trip Kona to Seattle was late. I had to run through SeaTac Seattle to catch my flight to San Jose. They made an exception to let me board. On my return trip San Jose to San Diego and San Diego to Honolulu the same thing happened. One flight arrived late and I had to run through the terminal to catch my connection. There are no Gluten-free & Vegan options meals and snacks to purchase.

generally good. No snacks or drinks on the flight 3379 from Portland to San Jose, CA. Sad.

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.

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 🙄

Great flight. No issues at all. I still think boarding could be more efficient but otherwise, a good experience.

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.

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.

Plane was down graded and I lost my uncharged exit row with more leg room. No mention or offer of refund from podium. Flight attendant was nice to explain this happens often and that I could request a refund via online form submission. I did this and have heard nothing back.

Horrendous. I do not recommend Frontier. The passengers lack manners and decency, and the flight attendants lack professionalism. If I wasn’t in a bind to fly with 48 hours notice for a job interview, I would not have selected a flight with Frontier and I never plan to fly with them in the future.

The reps working at the airport counter were dumber than a second coat of paint.

Everything you need to know for your flight from El Paso to California

Information on your arrival and departure airports

Not what you’re looking for? Find thousands of other hotels, flights, car rentals and package deals with KAYAK.