$98 Find Cheap Flights from Madison to California

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Cheap Flights from Madison to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$293
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$234
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$180
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$309
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$309
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$334
Arcata
Arcata2 stops$828
Reno
Reno1 stop$309
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$309
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$293
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$234
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$180
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$309
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$309
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$334
Arcata
Arcata2 stops$828
Reno
Reno1 stop$309
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$309

Book Cheap Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison to California

Mon, Mar 9 - Fri, Mar 13
Frontier Logo
7:51 pm - 12:08 am
MSN
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SAN
6h 17m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
9:00 am - 7:11 pm
SAN
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MSN
8h 11m
1 stop
$180Frontier
Fri, Mar 6 - Fri, Mar 13
Frontier Logo
7:56 pm - 12:08 am
MSN
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SAN
6h 12m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
9:00 am - 7:11 pm
SAN
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MSN
8h 11m
1 stop
$213Frontier
Thu, Apr 9 - Wed, Apr 15
Frontier Logo
7:57 pm - 12:05 am
MSN
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SAN
6h 08m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
7:15 am - 1:50 pm
SAN
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MSN
28h 35m
1 stop
$222Frontier
Mon, Mar 9 - Mon, Mar 16
Frontier Logo
7:51 pm - 12:08 am
MSN
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SAN
6h 17m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
6:25 am - 6:56 pm
SAN
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MSN
10h 31m
1 stop
$228Frontier
Tue, Apr 28 - Sat, May 9
United Airlines Logo
2:44 pm - 10:30 pm
MSN
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SNA
9h 46m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
2:20 pm - 10:31 pm
SNA
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MSN
6h 11m
1 stop
$249United Airlines
Tue, Apr 28 - Sat, May 9
United Airlines Logo
9:00 am - 3:03 pm
MSN
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SNA
8h 03m
1 stop
United Airlines Logo
11:10 am - 9:15 pm
SNA
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MSN
8h 05m
2 stops
$254United Airlines
Thu, Mar 12 - Tue, Mar 17
American Airlines Logo
8:24 pm - 12:22 am
MSN
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LAS
5h 58m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
11:59 pm - 10:08 am
LAS
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MSN
8h 09m
1 stop
$259American Airlines
Sat, May 2 - Fri, May 15
Delta Logo
2:41 pm - 8:17 pm
MSN
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LAS
7h 36m
1 stop
Delta Logo
11:22 pm - 10:19 am
LAS
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MSN
8h 57m
1 stop
$269Delta
Sat, Apr 18 - Sat, Apr 18
American Airlines Logo
3:29 pm - 9:56 pm
MSN
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LAS
8h 27m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
12:47 am - 8:45 am
LAS
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MSN
5h 58m
1 stop
$277American Airlines
Sat, May 30 - Wed, Jun 10
Delta Logo
2:33 pm - 8:21 pm
MSN
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LAS
7h 48m
1 stop
Delta Logo
6:25 am - 1:52 pm
LAS
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MSN
5h 27m
1 stop
$284Delta
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Madison to California flights

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

What is the cheapest Madison to California flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to California from Madison found in the last 72 hours was to Los Angeles, at $216 round-trip. The most popular route is from Madison (MSN) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $216.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Madison 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.

No, with an average price for the route of $380, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Madison 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 Madison to California is July, when tickets cost $288 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and November, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $461 and $450 respectively.

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

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

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

How far in advance should I book a flight from Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison to California, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 17% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 25 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$115
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 4% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 7% lower on average.
Flight from Madison to Las Vegas

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 $258 on average. Morning departures are around 33% 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 $383.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Madison to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Madison 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 Madison 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.
8.1
Breeze AirwaysOverall score based on 268 reviews
8.3Boarding
8.7Crew
8.2Comfort
6.6Entertainment
6.7Food
Airline reviews

Lost my luggage and terrible experience with customer service trying to track it down

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Feb 2026
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Lost my luggage and terrible experience with customer service trying to track it down

10 hour delay with minimal updates. Couldn’t leave terminal and then ended up on redeye with a dirty broken plane. It is literally impossible to reach customer service via gate agent, app, phone, text or email.

I thought that I had pre-purchased carry-on luggage and was surprised when I tried to check in that I did not have it.

Flight departure was 90 min delayed, and the boarding experience was confused, stressful, and generally poor. Additionally, the wifi on the plane was malfunctioning for all but the final 15 min of the flight into ILM.

Great experience and In love flying in and out of Provo airport

You get what you pay for. It’s like a bus but flying. No frills, no snacks. Leg room was fine, boarding was good.

Overall good. Plenty of legroom and fairly comfortable seats. No issues with capacity and the overhead been even though most people brought several carry-ons on. I don’t think Breeze really enforces the pay for a carry-on rule.

Surprised at how much I enjoyed Breeze. Paid for the Nicer upgrade which made it closer in price to a flag ship carrier but with more comfortable seats and much more leg room. Crew was polite and since we brought our food no loss there. Would make the point that the ‘have to pay for a carry-on is BS’. Most people did not and had several. Still was plenty of room in the overheads.

Comfortable seating, adequate space available, nice to have USB port, polite crew.

My experience is typically great with Breeze. This trip wasn’t any different.

Was forced to check in my small carry on, even though I informed the crew it has very fragile items inside

They double booked seats, the gate staff changed my ticket as I was boarding she went over to the computer and changed it without telling me. She messed up an entire three row section for me and others. Other travelers were outraged but the gate staff were so rude, so condescending saying it wasn't their problem to solve. I would rate this a zero if I could. Will not fly Delta again I'll stick with United and American.

I usually get upgraded so my experience is usually amazing. I did not get upgraded this time - which was fine - but the wifi had issues, the monitors were going in & out, & (though not Delta's fault) one of the gentlemen next to me desperately needed a shower.

I really liked the legroom. I am 6’4”.a at For some reason our seats were not together and using the app to fix it didn’t work. Passengers were nice enough to move for us but you should absolutely ensure a parent sits with their child.

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.

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.

the whole trip was smooth, and as comfortable as flying is these days. flight crew was friendly and very courteous and helpful.

First class ticket gets you a choice of chips or nuts. . Just like economy Southwest. Also no screen in the seats. This is first class???!

Flight arrived 30 min early and bag was waiting at the baggage pickup. United Club HNL was one of the nicest in the system

Yet another flight in which beverage and snack service was skipped. Other that that, firmly mediocre. Landed early, to gate late due to congestion at the gates. Airline's fault or airports fault: unknown.

Teeny tiny bathrooms, crew was not realistic about when we'd arrive.

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

Flight was late - I was downgraded from first class to coach

United needs to step up their game. Delayed flight leaving Seattle, San Francisco. Older aircraft, not very comfortable.

Plane boarded early a quickly, was mostly full. We left close to on time. And landed early.

The flight was significantly delayed for 6.5 hours because of snow. There was no communication once the plane returned to the gate regarding when the flight would resume. Other flights were departing while our flight was being unloaded for reasons unknown. Our flight also seemed out of the queue regarding further deicing, refueling, and waiting to Taxi to the runway.

They are always late and seats was also not having working charger

did not have enough meal for first class passengers so offer us snack

Amazing I love American. I’ll never fly anyone else if I can help it.

Everything about the flight was lovely. My only suggestion would be to offer a few more options of tv series from Apple TV or HBO.

After the door had been closed, the cockpit makes an announcement that catering is running late and it is not the airline's fault. It is their fault in the sense that we had to sit for 2 hours or more when we could have stayed in the terminal. Poor communications between catering and airline. This caused a young man to lose his temper and he went storming out hitting objects. He had complained to the gate agent that he had already waited at the gate 7 hours and when can the airplane leave? Airilnes do a poor job of explaining delays, maintenance issues, etc. whereas being truthful may gain more sympathy or understanding.

We were told the flight was delayed 5 times, then it was moved to the next day.

The experience with American Airlines was good, although the Philippines Airlines flight was much better (better seats, better food, better entertainment options, overall better). Again, the MIA to LAX flight was fine, but nothing in comparison to the comfort and accommodations of the Philippines Airlines flight from LAX to MNL.

Loved the crew . Absolutely no complaints. Except for luggage lost

Wish some foods provided rather than just biscuit/cookie for flight more than 2 hours

There was no food and no entertainment, so I'm not sure why these are even in the survey, as my understanding is frontier does not ever offer food without a few, not even a snack, and there are no screens so unless the flight safety talk is our entertainment why ask how we liked it?. One of the flight attendants say in the back of the plane as people filed in to their seats, yelling orders about where to put baggage and telling people to hurry up. It was the least professional experience I've ever had on a flight.

Very well recently! Frontier is improving and less harrassing customer on luggages! Positive!

Good for a budget airline! It was easy to get on, staff was really nice. Can’t say anything about the food or entertainment because it wasn’t available, which is fine.

I am writing to express my disappointment with my recent Frontier Airlines flight. I was charged $99 at the gate because my bag was said to be too large, yet once onboard there was no available overhead bin space, and I was required to place the bag under the seat in front of me anyway. This made the charge feel unnecessary and unfair. Additionally, before the flight even took off, I was asked to move from the seat I paid for into a middle seat so another passenger and her cat could have my seat to themselves. I was not offered compensation or an explanation for being moved from a paid seat. Between the unexpected bag fee and being forced to give up my seat, this experience fell well below acceptable customer service standards. I would appreciate a review of this situation and appropriate compensation.

It was costly and difficult to check in. $85 to take a small suitcase with me, carry on or checked and $75 on the return trip, Plus $25 if I didn't check my self in check in $25, because I couldn't do it on the kiosk. Small very uncomfortable seats, waited on the runway for near an hour each way. It was my worst flight to date.

It was ok. It was expensive to check 2 bags ($75.00 per bag), and then it took a long time to wait for shuttle to take us from one terminal to the terminal where the plane was taking off at LAX. And all of this for a flight where we had to pay for any food or drink that was not water.

It didn’t happen. I booked it and then was told it wasn’t available and then forced to pay far higher prices for a worse option

A 630departure flight Delayed 6hours! They changed my gate, I moved to the new gate. Had our flight on the screen for 12noon departure. I go get above to eat, check screen again and the flight was gone, no notice no announcement, nothing!! They sent my bag on the flight I wasn’t on, got it back to me 3days later. Thank goodness they did refund my money but I will NEVER fly them again.

Due to weather, my flight was delayed, further delayed, then canceled. I eventually got through to a support person who helped me find a different route out of MSP, but to get to DIA, they didn't want to, but eventually did help with the connection ticket purchase. But even this replacement flight was delayed time and time again, and I would have missed my connecting flights and I didn't want to get stuck in a layover city, so after 12 hours at the airport with two young boys who were very tired, we just cancelled our plans and spent the week at home, instead of Nana's.

Plane and crew on board were fine. Everything else was terrible.

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