$47 Find Cheap Flights from Houston to California

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Cheap Flights from Houston to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$76
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$268
San Diego
San Diego2 stops$175
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$154
Palm Springs
Palm Springsnonstop$249
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$186
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$388
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$250
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$552
Redding
Redding1 stop$323
Reno
Reno1 stop$153
Sacramento
Sacramento2 stops$191
Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$76
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$268
San Diego
San Diego2 stops$175
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$154
Palm Springs
Palm Springsnonstop$249
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$186
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$388
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$250
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$552
Redding
Redding1 stop$323
Reno
Reno1 stop$153
Sacramento
Sacramento2 stops$191

Book Cheap Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston to California

Wed, Jan 7 - Sat, Jan 10
Frontier Logo
10:56 am - 12:48 pm
IAH
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LAX
3h 52mnonstop
Frontier Logo
1:48 pm - 7:18 pm
LAX
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IAH
3h 30mnonstop
$76Frontier
Thu, Jan 15 - Sun, Jan 18
Multiple Airlines Logo
4:13 pm - 6:02 pm
IAH
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LAX
3h 49mnonstop
Multiple Airlines Logo
1:48 pm - 7:21 pm
LAX
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IAH
3h 33mnonstop
$77Multiple Airlines
Fri, Jan 23 - Sun, Jan 25
Spirit Airlines Logo
4:13 pm - 6:02 pm
IAH
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LAX
3h 49mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:07 pm - 12:19 am
LAX
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IAH
3h 12mnonstop
$80Spirit Airlines
Tue, Jan 20 - Mon, Jan 26
Spirit Airlines Logo
4:13 pm - 6:02 pm
IAH
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LAX
3h 49mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:07 pm - 12:19 am
LAX
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IAH
3h 12mnonstop
$83Spirit Airlines
Sun, Jan 18 - Sat, Jan 24
Southwest Logo
9:40 pm - 11:30 pm
HOU
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LAX
3h 50mnonstop
Southwest Logo
5:00 am - 10:10 am
LAX
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HOU
3h 10mnonstop
$165Southwest
Thu, Jan 15 - Sun, Jan 18
Southwest Logo
9:45 pm - 11:35 pm
HOU
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LAX
3h 50mnonstop
Southwest Logo
5:00 am - 10:10 am
LAX
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HOU
3h 10mnonstop
$174Southwest
Sat, Jan 24 - Mon, Jan 26
Delta Logo
5:04 pm - 11:15 pm
HOU
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LAS
8h 11m1 stop
Delta Logo
11:15 pm - 10:21 am
LAS
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HOU
9h 06m1 stop
$227Delta
Fri, Jan 30 - Mon, Feb 2
Delta Logo
5:04 pm - 11:15 pm
HOU
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LAS
8h 11m1 stop
Delta Logo
11:15 pm - 10:21 am
LAS
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HOU
9h 06m1 stop
$237Delta
Wed, Jan 14 - Wed, Jan 21
United Airlines Logo
6:33 pm - 9:05 pm
IAH
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SFO
4h 32mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
11:15 am - 5:15 pm
SFO
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IAH
4h 00mnonstop
$269United Airlines
Sat, Jan 10 - Wed, Jan 14
United Airlines Logo
9:32 pm - 11:59 pm
IAH
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SFO
4h 27mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
10:52 am - 6:30 pm
SFO
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IAH
5h 38m1 stop
$279United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Houston to California flights

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

What is the cheapest Houston to California flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to California from Houston found in the last 72 hours was to Ontario, at $58 round-trip. The most popular route is from Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $68.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Houston 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 Houston to California is January, when tickets cost $164 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and November, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $254 and $218 respectively.

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

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

If you are looking for a flight deal from Houston to California, look for departures on Fridays and avoid leaving on a Monday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from California, Friday is the cheapest day to fly and Sunday is the most expensive.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston to California, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 40% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 11 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Cheapest flight$47
Flight from Houston George Bush Airport to Los Angeles

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston 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 $254 on average. Morning departures are around 72% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $892.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Houston to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Houston 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 Houston 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.
7.9
SouthwestOverall score based on 4250 reviews
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
8.6Crew
7.5Entertainment
Airline reviews

The boarding and seat assignment system no longer works for me, but I know it is being replaced. Otherwise, I am good with the overall experience.

8.0 ExcellentRussell, Dec 2025
SAN - OAK
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The boarding and seat assignment system no longer works for me, but I know it is being replaced. Otherwise, I am good with the overall experience.

The lead steward kept singing about "San Francisco" and hotel California---more annoying than humorous....needs work. Flight was smooth and on time.

Still a fan of open seating. Flight was on schedule and arrived on time. The 737 MAX is very comfortable.

San Diego airport is brand new, spacious, airy and very smooth checkin at SW baggage drop.

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.

Flight crew and cabin crew were great. I had to rearrange flights because my original flight was 3hrs delayed for weather, the rub is the flight I moved to boarded on time then we sat at the gate for 2 hours because scheduling stole our first officer for another flight, TWICE. Then our actual FO was an hour delayed. To make it worse my original flight went from a 3 hour delay to departing 15min EARLY. Just poor scheduling operations all around.

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

Seats had less pitch than a regional jet. Food was OK. Have to buy alcohol on US based carriers flying international. Boarding was a mess. Did not have bags but overhead space was gone quick. Would like to see the airlines enforce the one bag over and one bag under policy

Lately I like the planes have been exceptionally filthy. There’s lines of dust and dirt all across the ceiling in the vents, and the cracks in between the seats are literally full of food. It’s definitely not the quality of service that I was used to with United. I’m also very disappointed with the Wi-Fi! All I wanna do is knock out a few work jobs while I’m trapped in my seat And it spools so bad. They did provide me with a refund, but the process of getting that refund is so complicated. It’s unfortunate.

Crew was excellent. This was a relatively long flight though and had very little leg room, and no entertainment.

The newer screen was super cool and had the option to watch many different shows or movies. Crew was polite and helpful. However again, many children screaming bloody murder and kicking my seat, and parents doing nothing about it as usual.

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

Flight was delayed and missed my connection Lufthansa didn’t respond.

the delay for 3 hours was understandable due to weather conditions but the flight should’ve provided some on flight compensations or at least provide more food.

United could have one single once of customer service. No human United employee would help me with the invalid mileage plus number, they said I had to speak with the computer.

Overall it was good. I missed my connection but I was put on another flight.

Although the flight was delayed the crew and the flight itself were very good. Couldn't fault anything and after the disappointment of being abandoned in the US by BA it was a welcome relief to travel with United

Flight was canceled and instead of rescheduling at the gate we had to go out to the ticket counter. Unruly kids kicking the back of my rows chair with staff to inattentive to say something.

I stopped flying spirit as much because they are crooks and thieves. It's not like other airlines where you can at least get credits they just take your money.

The plane was freezing and everyone had on their winter coats. I pulled out my sweaters out of my carryon to cover myself and put on an extra pair of socks. They offered NO FREE drinks or snacks on a 6 hour flight. The seats don’t have plugs or charges or any form of entertainment- so I just played my one downloaded game on my phone because I couldn’t sleep because I was too cold. Miserable flight though we landed safely.

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.

Spirit is low fare air line. Food also cost you. No free food.

Everyone was kind for the most part. I did travel with children and paid for seats and even then it was not as suitable. I tried calling their customer service prior to check in and I was told they couldn't help me because I didn't purchase my tickets with them.

I think the staff was nice. They took time to explain safety protocols. Boarding was great. They started early and our flight left a little early which was convenient. Having free games to play would have been better

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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