$86 Find Cheap Flights from Houston Hobby Airport to California

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Cheap Flights from Hobby to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$267
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$316
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$313
San Jose
San Josenonstop$292
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$329
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$363
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$432
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$345
Reno
Reno1 stop$345
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$267
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$316
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$313
San Jose
San Josenonstop$292
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$329
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$363
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$432
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$345
Reno
Reno1 stop$345

Book Cheap Hobby 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 Hobby 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 Hobby to California

Tue, Aug 18 - Tue, Aug 25
Southwest Logo
9:20 am - 10:30 am
HOU
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LAS
3h 10mnonstop
Southwest Logo
6:30 am - 11:30 am
LAS
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HOU
3h 00mnonstop
$171Southwest
Sat, Jul 25 - Tue, Jul 28
Southwest Logo
5:10 pm - 9:00 pm
HOU
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LAS
5h 50m
1 stop
Southwest Logo
5:05 am - 10:05 am
LAS
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HOU
3h 00mnonstop
$177Southwest
Tue, Aug 18 - Tue, Aug 25
Southwest Logo
5:30 pm - 6:40 pm
HOU
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LAS
3h 10mnonstop
Southwest Logo
11:05 am - 5:25 pm
LAS
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HOU
4h 20m
1 stop
$181Southwest
Sat, Jul 25 - Tue, Jul 28
Southwest Logo
5:10 pm - 9:00 pm
HOU
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LAS
5h 50m
1 stop
Southwest Logo
12:40 pm - 8:30 pm
LAS
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HOU
5h 50m
1 stop
$182Southwest
Tue, Aug 18 - Tue, Aug 25
Southwest Logo
5:30 pm - 6:40 pm
HOU
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LAS
3h 10mnonstop
Southwest Logo
9:45 am - 5:40 pm
LAS
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HOU
5h 55m
2 stops
$186Southwest
Tue, Jul 21 - Tue, Aug 4
Southwest Logo
5:00 pm - 8:35 pm
HOU
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LAS
5h 35m
1 stop
Southwest Logo
6:45 am - 1:50 pm
LAS
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HOU
5h 05m
1 stop
$191Southwest
Thu, Aug 20 - Tue, Aug 25
American Airlines Logo
9:32 am - 1:40 pm
HOU
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SJC
6h 08m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 3:26 pm
SJC
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HOU
7h 26m
1 stop
$311American Airlines
Wed, Aug 5 - Tue, Aug 11
American Airlines Logo
9:32 am - 1:30 pm
HOU
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SNA
5h 58m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:45 am - 3:26 pm
SNA
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HOU
6h 41m
1 stop
$317American Airlines
Wed, Aug 26 - Wed, Sep 2
Delta Logo
6:00 am - 4:02 pm
HOU
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SMF
12h 02m
2 stops
Delta Logo
12:16 pm - 10:05 pm
SMF
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HOU
7h 49m
1 stop
$322Delta
Sat, Aug 15 - Tue, Aug 18
American Airlines Logo
9:37 am - 2:14 pm
HOU
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SAN
6h 37m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
7:15 am - 3:26 pm
SAN
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HOU
6h 11m
1 stop
$327American Airlines
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Hobby to California flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Hobby 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 Houston Hobby Airport to California?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Houston Hobby Airport to California departing in August.

What is the cheapest Houston Hobby 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 Houston Hobby Airport found in the last 5 days was to Ontario, at $337 round-trip. The most popular route is from Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $347.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to California?

The average price for all round-trip flights from Houston Hobby Airport to California depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to California is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost $414 on average. Morning departures are around 8% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $849.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Houston Hobby 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 $488 on average.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Houston Hobby 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 Houston Hobby Airport to California is October, when tickets cost $233 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and November, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $489 and $409 respectively.

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

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

When flying from Houston Hobby Airport to California, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Tuesdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Houston Hobby Airport, you’ll find the best rates on Saturdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Houston Hobby Airport 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 Hobby Airport 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 Hobby Airport to California, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 38% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 14 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$86
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 13% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 4% increase in price.
Flight from Houston Hobby Airport to Las Vegas

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Houston Hobby Airport 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 Hobby Airport 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 Hobby Airport 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 Hobby Airport 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 Hobby Airport to California up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Houston Hobby Airport to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $264 one-way - $356 round-trip; Los Angeles $198 one-way - $393 round-trip; San Diego $209 one-way - $409 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Hobby 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 Hobby 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 4246 reviews
7.5Entertainment
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
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The Air hostess were very rude on my flight from Houston to Austin . Their regular communication itself felt a they are shouting at people.

4.0 Okaysangeetha, Apr 2026
AUS - SJC
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The Air hostess were very rude on my flight from Houston to Austin . Their regular communication itself felt a they are shouting at people.

I have roller bag with food and medication told me I couldn't bring on my 2nd flight today. 15 years flying with SW never an issue with that bag.

The flight crew was extremely rude and especially not helpful when our flight was delayed.

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

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.

Plane late from DC to Austin 30 minutes. Crew made up much of the time enroute to San Diego.

My experience was find with Southwest. The only issue I have is...at the exact time for me to check in...I don't understand how I always end up in C.

Very helpful, convenient, nice crew members, no extra fees, helped us saving 4 hrs of travel by booking is on an earlier flight

Our first flight was so delayed that we had 10 mins to board the next one. We requested if the flight attendant could allow us off there plane first and they denied our request even though I have seen this done before. Luck was on our side that we didn’t miss our next flight.

It was a very good experience. No major issues at all.

Love me some Delta. One of the few airlines to recognize and support veterans. Easy boarding, flight was on time and arrived early and the flight attendants were excellent on this flight.

We sat on the runway for over an hour before departure. That was unwelcome.

Arlene was a great flight attendant. I also liked how one of the other flight attendants gave us a heads up about snacks and asked everyone to remove their headphones when it was their turn to order. Good idea.

bulkhead seat had very little legroom - even in bsiness class.

I didn't take this flight. I changed the flight. Why am I getting surveys and notifications on flights that I change. Seems like a defect with Kayak.

I loved having a most black flight crew during Black History Month; rather by design or accident I appreciated the representation. ❤️

I didn’t like that I could not select my seat and was assigned a seat when I checked in at LAX

Great experience overall. Check in at Austin was congested as they only have about 6 check in kiosks, one was broken, and there was a lot of Spring Break travelers.

Lisa the flight attendent was absolutely wonderful - I loved her energy and you could tell that this crew was amazing family - thank you for making our flight home to LA so very fun! Love and Sun Chips!

App was rather sporadic in working along with Wi-Fi no longer could text and passenger seated next to me was sicker than a dog from LAXLIH also disappointed I couldn’t buy access to sky club with my bonvoy Amex

Packed flight, which makes it tough on crew and boarding staff (and the customers of course). But this was great boarding, clear instructions, etc. Traveling on the weekends are always fraught with danger as you have families and less frequent flyers thus more confusion. But this flight went as planned.

Overall we had a good experience during our flight from San Francisco to Houston.

The power at the seat didn't work and the seat itself was difficult to adjust - this was a business class seat. Flight attendant gave me miles to compensate. The attendant was very professional and on top of his game the entire flight.

Unbelievably poor service from flight attendants. They didn’t even do water service on a four hour flight. Just disrespectful.

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

I was refused to used the toilet closes to my seat and had to go to the back of the plane .. it was difficult for me I’m a wheelchair customer

Crew was very cooperative and professional. Passenger's first checked in bag should be free.

Over two hours wait to get wheelchair assistance from arrival to the departure gate for LA was unreasonable even though there appreared to be heavy demand.

The crew was nice but the people going to Orange County are so entitled. Everyone thinks everything is suppose for be perfect for them. Tough crowd.

Flight was absolutely sold out, so that just makes the crews job that much tougher. I will say people (customers) are behaving better over the last year.

Forced to check bags. Crew uninterested in collecting trash. Unclean seats.

There's nothing I liked about it. For first off I scheduled this trip two weeks in advance then they delayed my flight which messed up my whole trip. So I scheduled it for the following weekend thinking there won't be a delay and guess what as soon as I got to the airport we said in the airplane on the tarmac for an hour and a half. Not only was it delayed I missed my connecting flight meaning I had to stay the night at Dallas-Fort Worth airport sleeping on the floor. I will tell you this I will never fly American airlines ever again I have had nothing but horrible experience with them and I just throw money at them

They changed my seat from one that I had paid for as an upgrade to a regular seat at the last minute.

Very aggressive and unhelpful ground crew. Wanted to check my hand luggage for 3 flights. I had lots of delicate items and computer equipment. So the silly lady wanted to rebook 3 international flights because of a carry on. What nonsense. The baggage handler suggested I put it under my seat - so I did. And this was during the rebooking chaos of the Microsoft crash. She was the most arrogant annoying and aggressive ground staff member I’ve met in 20yrs. (AA flight out of Houston).

Left from gate 30 minutes before flight. Never been late to a flight ever. It says 15 minutes before explicitly on the ticket.

Was as expected. Good leg room on planes - much appreciated.

I know that there is nothing than can be done about rude customers. I did find a couple of them were very rude and inconsiderate In my case the guy who was sitting in the same row as I was in, was trying to watch a movie with no headphones, a crew member did ask him to turn it down or off (thumbs up for that.) Another thing, as we were about to land another young man must have taken his phone off airplane mode was talking with his friends and using fowl language which I found inappropriate to the ppl who were sitting in the same row as him and other ppl around him. I understand how no one wanted to address this person and not get involved. We all just wanted to get home safely with out any incident.

The food service was limited and not good. For a seven hour flight they could do better.

Left 40 mins late; we were fine on our connection but many on our flight were not.

Pros: "The crew member who is close to my seat did not even offer to help with my luggage which was very unprofessional."
Cons: "The crew members needs to be helpful, and customer service to their passengers!"

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

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

Delayed each time on a round trip with no significant weather interference. Updates to flight times came after the fact. 30 min behind in boarding and board and phone still show an on time departure. Some mysterious extra 300 miles that came so surprising they had to fuel while we were already on board?

Airline changed the gate from Terminal A to Terminal D which is quite far and only sent a text message few minutes before boarding. Around 50 people missed their flight and as plane didn’t wait for them.

Bad experience… crew are extremely strict with personal bags… they overcharge me coz my bag was one inch H

Well I mean u get what u pay for so 🤷‍♂️

I purchased a carry on bag online…was supposed to cost $72 but after a whole slew of bs charges, the total was over $175.00. Because of these hidden charges, I will not even consider flying Frontier ever again. It’s just not worth the hassle. I’m scratching this company off my list forever.

Plane was clean but they do not allow bag drop until 1 hour before flight. Just encouraging late fees and other issues. The worst I have experienced. Total hostage situation, pay or you miss your flight.

Everything was good, and most importantly on time. They have been extremely tardy in some of my flights

Flight delayed an hour. The turbulence was insane. Packed in like sardines. A coke was $4.95 no snack or a drink crazy

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