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Cheap Flights from McAllen to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$217
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$236
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$222
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$273
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$419
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$279
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$217
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$236
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$222
San Jose
San Jose2 stops$273
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$419
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$279

Book Cheap McAllen 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 McAllen 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 McAllen to California

Sat, Sep 6 - Fri, Sep 26
Allegiant Air Logo
3:49 pm - 4:57 pmMFE-LAS
3h 08mnonstop
Allegiant Air Logo
7:35 am - 12:34 pmLAS-MFE
2h 59mnonstop
$118Allegiant Air
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Sun, Aug 31 - Thu, Sep 4
Allegiant Air Logo
9:37 pm - 10:51 pmMFE-LAS
3h 14mnonstop
Allegiant Air Logo
8:00 am - 12:59 pmLAS-MFE
2h 59mnonstop
$123Allegiant Air
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Sat, Sep 13 - Sat, Sep 20
American Airlines Logo
6:23 pm - 10:22 pmMFE-LAS
5h 59m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
8:55 am - 5:26 pmLAS-MFE
6h 31m1 stop
$191American Airlines
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Tue, Sep 9 - Sat, Sep 13
American Airlines Logo
10:53 am - 3:44 pmMFE-LAS
6h 51m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
12:57 pm - 10:50 pmLAS-MFE
7h 53m2 stops
$196American Airlines
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Sat, Sep 6 - Thu, Sep 25
Delta Logo
12:31 pm - 4:47 pmMFE-LAS
6h 16m1 stop
Delta Logo
12:29 am - 11:49 amLAS-MFE
9h 20m2 stops
$222Delta
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Thu, Aug 21 - Tue, Aug 26
Delta Logo
5:17 pm - 8:25 pmMFE-LAX
5h 08m1 stop
Delta Logo
9:40 pm - 11:48 amLAX-MFE
12h 08m2 stops
$222Delta
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Mon, Aug 11 - Wed, Aug 13
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9:15 pm - 9:55 amMFE-SAN
14h 40m1 stop
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7:01 pm - 12:34 pmSAN-MFE
15h 33m1 stop
Thu, Sep 25 - Mon, Sep 29
United Airlines Logo
6:55 am - 11:36 amMFE-LAX
6h 41m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
12:56 am - 8:53 amLAX-MFE
5h 57m1 stop
$305United Airlines
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Thu, Aug 28 - Sat, Aug 30
United Airlines Logo
7:25 pm - 11:59 pmMFE-SFO
6h 34m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
11:59 pm - 8:55 amSFO-MFE
6h 56m1 stop
$312United Airlines
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Sun, Aug 10 - Mon, Aug 18
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12:04 pm - 1:19 pmMFE-LAX
3h 15mnonstop
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6:45 am - 7:55 pmLAX-MFE
11h 10m1 stop
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KAYAK's insights & trends for McAllen to California flights

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

What is the cheapest McAllen to California flight route?

The cheapest price for flight routes found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks for round-trip flights from McAllen to California.

The cheapest ticket to California from McAllen found in the last 72 hours was to Los Angeles, at $215 round-trip. The most popular route is from McAllen (MFE) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $215.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from McAllen 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 $278, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from McAllen 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 McAllen to California is May, when tickets cost $204 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and December, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $412 and $384 respectively.

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

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

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

How far in advance should I book a flight from McAllen 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 McAllen 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 McAllen to California, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 35% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 26 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$65
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 10% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 3% increase in price.
Flight from McAllen to Los Angeles

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from McAllen 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 McAllen 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 McAllen 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 McAllen 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 McAllen 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 $171 on average. Morning departures are around 38% 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 $287.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from McAllen to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $99 one-way - $146 round-trip; Los Angeles $77 one-way - $215 round-trip

Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from McAllen to California

 
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8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 7980 reviews
8.5Crew
7.3Food
7.9Entertainment
7.9Comfort
8.2Boarding
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Everything was good until we were boarding our connection flight in Atlanta, we were told to gate check our carry-on, but when we got inside the plane, there was plenty of room in the overhead.

8.0 ExcellentFernando, Jul 2025AUS - ATL
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Everything was good until we were boarding our connection flight in Atlanta, we were told to gate check our carry-on, but when we got inside the plane, there was plenty of room in the overhead.

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

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.

The check in and bag drop off for Sky Priority members is slow. The Clear security was also slow - a TSA issue.

I am still upset that my bag was lost on a recent trip to Rome ; we were inconvenienced and out €150 Euros ; delta has refused to reimburse us

Boarded plane and then delayed 1.5 hours while on the plane

Horrific. They missed my connecting flight to San Diego. I didn’t get there until Monday at 9am when I had a mandatory court settlement conference scheduled at 6am since we had parties on the east coast. This caused many issues. All because United apparently forgot to hold the doors open until my flight landed that only had a 10 minute delay. This was the last flight to Southern California. So I couldn’t even rent a car to finish the trip. United cannot be trusted when traveling on specific days and times since weather didn’t have anything to do with the delays.

My flight was delayed a very short period of time but they did not hold my connecting flight to San Diego, also through United. So they closed the doors before we got off our plane. They would only have to help the door open for another five to ten minutes. So I missed a court deadline for a manditory mediation settlement conference for my client. I had to get an associate to be there in person and be on the phone with him relaying what he needs to do the entire time. The court was very upset with me and so was my client. United cannot be trusted.

We were given vouchers we couldn’t use with a 5.5 hour delay

Really good 😊 the woman at the gate entrance was a little rude checking in our carry-on but i dont think she worked for the airline, she worked for the airport at sacramento, other than that amazing.

Boarding was mayhem. Late boarding by 15 minutes because of lack of staff (missing 1 flight attendant. We had to wait for an arrival of another plane before we could board). Flight was a little rough, but cannot blame on airlines.

Great experience…left a bit behind schedule but made up fir that in the air and landed 10 minutes early 😁

United out of SFO is having issues with catering so none of our meals were loaded on the plane and no offer of compensation for our tickets purchased was offered.

A bit rush for transit. Food and entertainment are not available

The gate was too far away for the connecting flight

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.

Long 5 hour and 45 min flight and only one drink service and cookie snack

One bottle of water and a package of cookies for comfort plus. We had to literally beg a flight attendant for an extra bottle of water later in the flight due to feeling dehydrated.

Flight boarded from Gate 39 at OGG, the farthest gate in the terminal. There were no Hawaiian themed amenities for the flight. The first class service was mediocre at best; I received not special welcome or recognition as an executive platinum member of American Advantage program. The flight attendants were more concerned with their cell phones than saying "thank you" to the passengers as we disembarked. Fortunately, the flight arrived at LAX a few minutes early.

Bigger seats. Board back to front! Disembark front to back!

It was canceled. The flight wasn’t rescheduled, everyone had to figure out their own new arrangements. They said we would get refunded our original fare and receive an additional $150. We received links for $100 only and they expired before we could activate them.

The plane had originated in Las Vegas at 6:30 in the morning and flew to Moline where we boarded. The flight left around 12:30 PM and there were no boxed snacks available and many of the alcoholic beverages were unavailable. I would find it hard to believe that that many of the passengers coming from Las Vegas at 6:30 in the morning, drank and ate that much of the items. I can only come to the conclusion that someone failed to stock the plane for the round-trip. This is a huge revenue failure for the airline and disappointment for the passengers. The flight crew did not seem happy to be there and did not engage with passengers. Allegiant you can do better.

They did not let my husband on the plane with our service animal at the last minute. Do NOT fly this airline with a service animal!

Tight! Seats are not designed for those of us who wear extra-large clothes.

The non-stop flight from Grand Rapids was excellent. I neither expected or needed a budget flight and Allegiant made the trip easy and for an affordable price, Arriving at the Mesa Airport (AZA) is a delight compared to the international airport. For our return flight, we were able to arrive 75 minutes before the flight, return the rental car, check our bag and make it to the gate in plenty of time. That would never happen at most airports.

Easiest flights I’ve ever taken. Plane was comfortable without overly crowded seating.

Terrible. Still have not received the refund from them. They sent it to some account that I don't even know. Spoke with costumer service and they are unable to help.

I didn’t like it at all. I miss my second flight because of the delay on Allegiant Air now I m stuck in MCO.

Good, but a bit late on take off after loading. Don't like charging for carry ons!

First time flying with them and will definitely fly again in the future. Crew was so nice and friendly, fought was seamless. They are simple planes, no entertainment, but it’s fine for a short flight or if you have personal devices Rates are competitive, and they did so well with keeping the flight on time after a tropical storm, where other airlines had delays and cancellations.

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