$129 Find Cheap Flights from Melbourne to California

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Cheap Flights from Melbourne to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$278
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$397
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$242
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$435
Reno
Reno1 stop$313
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$310
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$278
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$397
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$242
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$435
Reno
Reno1 stop$313
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$310

Book Cheap Melbourne 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne to California

Wed, Aug 20 - Wed, Aug 27
American Airlines Logo
7:46 am - 1:56 pmMLB-SAN
9h 10m1 stop
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9:45 am - 9:58 pmSAN-MLB
9h 13m2 stops
$242American Airlines
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Wed, Aug 20 - Wed, Aug 27
American Airlines Logo
7:46 am - 3:25 pmMLB-SAN
10h 39m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
9:45 am - 9:58 pmSAN-MLB
9h 13m2 stops
$247American Airlines
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Sat, Aug 23 - Tue, Aug 26
Delta Logo
5:50 am - 9:37 amMLB-SAN
6h 47m1 stop
Delta Logo
10:30 pm - 10:45 amSAN-MLB
9h 15m1 stop
$267Delta
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Sat, Aug 30 - Sat, Sep 6
American Airlines Logo
1:48 pm - 6:44 pmMLB-LAX
7h 56m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:01 am - 5:15 pmLAX-MLB
8h 14m1 stop
$278American Airlines
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Tue, Sep 2 - Tue, Sep 9
American Airlines Logo
7:46 am - 2:04 pmMLB-LAX
9h 18m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
11:41 pm - 12:17 pmLAX-MLB
9h 36m1 stop
$279American Airlines
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Sat, Aug 30 - Sat, Sep 6
American Airlines Logo
1:48 pm - 6:44 pmMLB-LAX
7h 56m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
7:45 am - 11:02 pmLAX-MLB
12h 17m2 stops
$283American Airlines
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Thu, Aug 28 - Wed, Sep 3
Delta Logo
2:29 pm - 7:26 pmMLB-SAN
7h 57m1 stop
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10:37 am - 11:29 pmSAN-MLB
9h 52m1 stop
$302Delta
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Thu, Sep 4 - Mon, Sep 8
Delta Logo
2:29 pm - 9:15 pmMLB-SAN
9h 46m1 stop
Delta Logo
10:30 pm - 10:45 amSAN-MLB
9h 15m1 stop
$309Delta
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Sun, Aug 24 - Wed, Aug 27
Delta Logo
5:50 am - 11:06 amMLB-SMF
8h 16m1 stop
Delta Logo
7:05 am - 11:29 pmSMF-MLB
13h 24m2 stops
$310Delta
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Sun, Oct 19 - Thu, Oct 23
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3:01 pm - 3:42 pmMLB-LAS
27h 41m3 stops
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3:10 pm - 8:46 amLAS-MLB
14h 36m1 stop
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Melbourne to California flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Melbourne 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 Melbourne, Florida to California?

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Melbourne 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 Melbourne to California is January, when tickets cost $337 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and October, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $503 and $479 respectively.

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

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

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


Good to know

Low seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$129
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 5% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 25% increase in price.
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FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Melbourne 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne 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 at night, when round-trip flights cost $356 on average. Morning departures are around 12% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally in the afternoon, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $439.

Reviews of the top airlines flying from Melbourne to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Melbourne 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.
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8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 7980 reviews
7.9Entertainment
8.2Boarding
7.3Food
8.5Crew
7.9Comfort
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For a 69 year old with health problems I had the worse experience, no wheelchair when I entered a lady told me to sit and wait while a gentleman told me I had to walk to the Delta station, which I did. I had a carry on and a bag, and I was traveling with my service dog, which was on his carrier and the lady charged me for my carry on luggage, beside all the waiting cause of the delay, I had to walk to get my luggage cause no wheelchair showed up, I am so disappointed. I will get in touch with the company. I got home at 3:00 am, not good for my health situation.

2.0 MediocreRosa, Jul 2025TPA - JFK
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For a 69 year old with health problems I had the worse experience, no wheelchair when I entered a lady told me to sit and wait while a gentleman told me I had to walk to the Delta station, which I did. I had a carry on and a bag, and I was traveling with my service dog, which was on his carrier and the lady charged me for my carry on luggage, beside all the waiting cause of the delay, I had to walk to get my luggage cause no wheelchair showed up, I am so disappointed. I will get in touch with the company. I got home at 3:00 am, not good for my health situation.

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

Flight was an hour late, who knows why. It was OK, nothing outstanding.

Excellent check-in. Crew was good. Excellent communication from flight deck.

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.

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!

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