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$99 Find Cheap Flights from Long Beach to San Francisco

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Cheap Flights from Long Beach to San Francisco (LGB-SFO)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Long Beach to San Francisco 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 Long Beach to San Francisco

Tue, Sep 9 - Wed, Sep 10
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3:30 pm - 9:25 pmLGB-SFO
5h 55m2 stops
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5:15 am - 12:10 pmSFO-LGB
6h 55m2 stops
$185Southwest
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Tue, Sep 9 - Wed, Sep 10
Southwest Logo
10:50 am - 5:55 pmLGB-SFO
7h 05m1 stop
Southwest Logo
5:15 am - 12:10 pmSFO-LGB
6h 55m2 stops
$191Southwest
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Tue, Sep 9 - Wed, Sep 10
Southwest Logo
10:50 am - 3:55 pmLGB-SFO
5h 05m1 stop
Southwest Logo
5:15 am - 10:05 amSFO-LGB
4h 50m1 stop
$197Southwest
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Wed, Sep 10 - Thu, Sep 11
Southwest Logo
1:55 pm - 9:25 pmLGB-SFO
7h 30m2 stops
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5:15 am - 9:30 amSFO-LGB
4h 15m1 stop
$202Southwest
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Tue, Sep 23 - Fri, Sep 26
Southwest Logo
3:30 pm - 9:25 pmLGB-SFO
5h 55m2 stops
Southwest Logo
5:15 am - 9:30 amSFO-LGB
4h 15m1 stop
$206Southwest
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Mon, Nov 10 - Wed, Nov 12
Southwest Logo
4:30 pm - 11:35 pmLGB-SFO
7h 05m2 stops
Southwest Logo
12:45 pm - 7:10 pmSFO-LGB
6h 25m2 stops
$211Southwest
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Tue, Sep 9 - Thu, Sep 11
Delta Logo
5:08 pm - 9:51 amLGB-SFO
16h 43m2 stops
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1:30 pm - 12:15 pmSFO-LGB
22h 45m1 stop
$396Delta
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Tue, Sep 9 - Thu, Sep 11
Delta Logo
5:08 pm - 9:04 amLGB-SFO
15h 56m1 stop
Delta Logo
1:30 pm - 12:15 pmSFO-LGB
22h 45m1 stop
$400Delta
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Wed, Oct 29 - Thu, Oct 30
Hawaiian Airlines Logo
7:42 am - 8:22 pmLGB-SFO
12h 40m1 stop
Hawaiian Airlines Logo
7:52 am - 8:52 pmSFO-LGB
13h 00m1 stop
$654Hawaiian Airlines
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Thu, Dec 4 - Sun, Dec 7
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:30 am - 5:25 amLGB-SFO
21h 55m1 stop
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:15 am - 7:35 pmSFO-LGB
12h 20m1 stop
$701Alaska Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Long Beach to San Francisco flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Long Beach to San Francisco 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 Long Beach to San Francisco?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Long Beach to San Francisco clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to San Francisco on a Tuesday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to Long Beach, you should consider flying back on a Tuesday, and avoid Sundays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Long Beach to San Francisco?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Long Beach to San Francisco, 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 Long Beach to San Francisco is January, where tickets cost $127 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are April and June, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $354 and $338 respectively.

Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$99
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 19% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 41% lower on average.
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When to book flights from Long Beach to San Francisco

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Long Beach to San Francisco 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 flights from Long Beach to San Francisco

  • Does the Long Beach Airport have any private facilities for nursing mothers?

    Yes. If you are a traveling mom who wants to breastfeed your baby in private or who needs to express your breast milk, you can use one of the Nursing Rooms that LGB provides, one landside and one airside at Gate 2. These rooms feature a comfortable armchair, an ottoman, a table, a sink, and power outlets.

  • Do I have to make a reservation in order to park my car at LGB?

    No. In fact, there are no parking reservations at the Long Beach Airport, because there is ample parking. Lot A is directly across from the terminal, adjacent to the Car Rentals Larage. Lot B is behind a Lot A, and slightly less expensive. You can find 12 Charge Points for electrical vehicles in Lot B.

  • Where can I pick up my rental car at SFO?

    All rental car agencies at the San Francisco Airport are housed in the Rental Car Center. To get to the RCC, take the AirTrain Blue Line from any terminal at SFO. This people mover system runs 24/7 throughout SFO. Some car rental agencies at the RCC at SFO include Budget, Avis, Alamo, Enterprise, Hertz, Thrifty, and others.

  • Does the San Francisco Airport have an on-site hotel?

    Yes. If you need to get settled right away when you landed SFO or if you are staying in San Francisco for only a short time, consider booking into the Grand Hyatt Hotel at SFO. This hotel is connected to all of the terminals at the San Francisco Airport via the AirTrain. Some amenities of this accommodation include a bar and lounge, room service, a workout room, a business center, free Wi-Fi, and more.

  • What is the cheapest flight from Long Beach to San Francisco?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Long Beach to San Francisco was $99 for a one-way ticket and $185 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Long Beach and San Francisco?

    No, a passport isn't needed to fly from Long Beach to San Francisco. However, local authorities might ask for an official ID.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Long Beach to San Francisco?

    Long Beach and San Francisco are both served by 1 main airport. You will leave Long Beach from Long Beach Municipal and will be arriving at San Francisco.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Long Beach to San Francisco?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Long Beach to San Francisco?

    SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Long Beach and San Francisco, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Long Beach to San Francisco, Southwest or Alaska Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Long Beach to San Francisco are Southwest and Alaska Airlines. With an average price for the route of $357 and an overall rating of 8.0, Southwest is the most popular choice. Alaska Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $199 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Long Beach to San Francisco?

    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 Long Beach to San Francisco.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Long Beach to San Francisco?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Francisco from Long Beach 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 Long Beach to San Francisco?

    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 San Francisco with an airline and back to Long Beach with another airline. Booking your flights between Long Beach and SFO 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 Long Beach to San Francisco?

    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 San Francisco from Long Beach 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 Long Beach to San Francisco

  • One of the smaller airports to serve the Los Angeles region, the Long Beach Airport (LGB) is a hub for Jet America Airlines and WinAir Airlines. Located further north in California, the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is a hub for Alaska Airlines.
  • American, Delta, and Southwest are among the airlines that offer flights from LGB to SFO with one stop, usually in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, or Las Vegas. American and Delta are two airlines that offer flights from LGB to SFO with two stops, often in Phoenix and then Los Angeles or Salt Lake City and then Los Angeles.
  • Travelers going through the Long Beach Airport with their pets and service animals can access their services at the airport. It provides a grassy, park-like animal relief area for service animals and pets. This area is located outside the terminal building, on the north side, curbside.
  • The Long Beach Airport is an accessible airport that provides a number of adaptations in order to make travel for those with challenges as hassle-free as possible. Some of those accommodations include accessible parking in all parking lots, assistance at the security checkpoint, ADA accessible white curbs in front of the ticketing lobby, taxis and shuttles that are wheelchair accessible, accessible drinking fountains and bathrooms, and elevators in Parking Structure A and B.
  • If you want to freshen up when you arrive at SFO, you can rent a Freshen Up room, located landside on Level G in the Main Hall. Each Freshen Up room includes a bed, Wi-Fi, a mirror, and a desk. You can have access to a shower for an extra fee.

Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from Long Beach to San Francisco

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Long Beach to San Francisco. 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.
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8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 10000 reviews
8.5Crew
7.0Entertainment
7.1Food
8.1Boarding
7.8Comfort
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2 FLIGHT DELAYS? what an inconvenience to stay @the airport HALF THE DAY😳from 1pm till boarding @ 4pm pass 😠exhausting !

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Aug 2025LAX - SFO
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2 FLIGHT DELAYS? what an inconvenience to stay @the airport HALF THE DAY😳from 1pm till boarding @ 4pm pass 😠exhausting !

Flight was delayed - we left at 11:30 pm instead of 10:30 and it was extremely inconvenient. It affected both the day of the flight and the next day

I don’t like it stuff not friendly and no one help for my mom she 82 years old lady I requested wheel chair but no one provided and no one help.

If there were movies it would have made the flight much easier.

I loved that the checking in process was seamlessly easy and user friendly. The crew was very nice and professional. Unfortunately, we were seated in the back of the plane across from the bathroom. There wasn’t much room for leg room and comfortability. Alongside, we had to listen to a baby crying up and down the aisle way for the entire plane ride. The turbulence of the plane landing was rocky. Overall, the experience with Alaska was just okay. We made it home alive so that’s always a positive.

would have been nice for flight to not be delayed by 2 hours so that we had to pay $80 to get home since BART had shut down. i thought a 10pm arrival would leave enough time to account for delays but i was wrong.

One of the best roundtrip flights I’ve ever been on. We needed assistance for my elderly mother and without fail, each and every Alaska team member was helpful, kind, and patient. Will fly Alaska again and again.

As always to close confinement for passengers not in upgrades. I like that you still get carry on and personal bag.

I had a negative experience, the flight delay was very long, I didn't like it

The seats in first class are very dated and quite uncomfortable. I don’t need lie-flat seats for a 6 hour flight, but more recline is really necessary.

Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

Flight wasn’t even full, but too many carry-ons caused us to run out of bin space. New bag fee has folks who would usually check their bags carrying on. Watching Southwest morph into Spirit/Frontier is so sad to watch

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 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 husband upgraded our seats and I don't know if it was due to the type of planet was or if they didn't upgrade our seats. We were supposed to be in I believe comfort seats and they were just as tight as any other seat- no leg room and we are very tall people but at least it wasn't extremely cold. My husband did put in a complaint about our seating because he paid extra and if we would have known that the space and the tightness would have been the same, we just would have gotten the emergency row emergency row seats that we normally get. We love Delta but both our flights coming home we're not good. Oh I forgot to mention that on our flight to Hawaii our luggage wheels got broke and we had to purse new luggage on vacation then we never had this problem so we didn't know protocol and reported it after we got home only for them to tell is we only had 24hrs to report the damage. Not sure what was going on with Delta this vacation trip.

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.

Crew was excellent. Comfort seats not as nice as other kinds of planes.

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.

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.

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

Cancelled flight after I arrived at airport after 75 min drive and parking. Next flight was 4 days in the future. Had to scramble and buy a much more expensive flight on another carrier.

I liked the turn-style feature at gate 209B at LAX. Very efficient process. The gate staff also made several, clearly directed announcements so I felt very informed.

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 seats were hard molded plastic covered in plastic vinyl. And the scam to charge people extra to sit together. Don’t they know we can just ask someone to trade seats. And watching the staff separate young children from parents… super classy. We had to guilt them into offering up our seats. This companies policies suck. Don’t give them your money.

The seats were awful, hard plastic covered in sheet vinyl. The airline tries to scam you into paying extra to get seat together when the flight wasn’t full. They were going to separate a family with young children but my wife who had a row to herself gave up her seat so the young mom could be with her young boys. I’m never giving this airline my money again.

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