$18 Find Cheap Flights from Oakland to California

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Best California Flight Deals from Oakland

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$95
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$171
San Diego
San Diegononstop$47
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$136
Palm Springs
Palm Springsnonstop$139
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$164
Crescent City
Crescent Citynonstop$193
Imperial
Imperial2 stops$1,104
Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes2 stops$1,111
Merced
Merced1 stop$479
Reno
Reno1 stop$113
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$117
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$95
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$171
San Diego
San Diegononstop$47
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$136
Palm Springs
Palm Springsnonstop$139
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$164
Crescent City
Crescent Citynonstop$193
Imperial
Imperial2 stops$1,104
Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes2 stops$1,111
Merced
Merced1 stop$479
Reno
Reno1 stop$113
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$117

Cheap Flights from Oakland to California

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Oakland 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 Oakland to California

Thu, Aug 7 - Thu, Aug 7
Spirit Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 7:35 amOAK-LAS
1h 35mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
10:14 am - 11:47 amLAS-OAK
1h 33mnonstop
$31Spirit Airlines
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Tue, Aug 12 - Wed, Aug 13
Spirit Airlines Logo
9:23 am - 10:59 amOAK-LAS
1h 36mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
9:53 pm - 11:27 pmLAS-OAK
1h 34mnonstop
$36Spirit Airlines
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Sun, Jul 27 - Tue, Jul 29
Spirit Airlines Logo
12:42 pm - 2:16 pmOAK-LAS
1h 34mnonstop
Spirit Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 8:28 amLAS-OAK
1h 28mnonstop
$41Spirit Airlines
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Wed, Jul 30 - Wed, Aug 6
Southwest Logo
5:45 am - 7:20 amOAK-SAN
1h 35mnonstop
Southwest Logo
7:30 am - 9:05 amSAN-OAK
1h 35mnonstop
$55Southwest
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Mon, Aug 4 - Wed, Aug 13
Southwest Logo
7:55 pm - 9:30 pmOAK-LAS
1h 35mnonstop
Southwest Logo
1:25 pm - 5:25 pmLAS-OAK
4h 00m1 stop
$74Southwest
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Sat, Aug 9 - Sat, Aug 16
Delta Logo
4:55 pm - 9:16 pmOAK-PSP
4h 21m1 stop
Delta Logo
5:12 pm - 10:46 pmPSP-OAK
5h 34m1 stop
$177Delta
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Tue, Aug 12 - Thu, Aug 14
Delta Logo
4:58 pm - 9:16 pmOAK-PSP
4h 18m1 stop
Delta Logo
5:12 pm - 11:50 pmPSP-OAK
6h 38m1 stop
$224Delta
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Tue, Aug 5 - Tue, Aug 12
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 2:46 pmOAK-ONT
7h 46m1 stop
Alaska Airlines Logo
4:00 pm - 12:01 amONT-OAK
8h 01m1 stop
$269Alaska Airlines
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Tue, Sep 30 - Sat, Oct 4
Alaska Airlines Logo
6:15 am - 9:26 amOAK-ONT
27h 11m2 stops
Alaska Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 12:03 amONT-OAK
18h 03m1 stop
$274Alaska Airlines
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Sun, Aug 17 - Wed, Aug 20
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5:39 pm - 5:25 pmOAK-RNO
23h 46m3 stops
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3:27 pm - 7:18 amRNO-OAK
15h 51m2 stops
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Oakland to California flights

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

What is the cheapest Oakland 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 Oakland to California.

The cheapest ticket to California from Oakland found in the last 72 hours was to Santa Ana, at $58 round-trip. The most popular route is from Oakland (OAK) to San Diego (SAN), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $64.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Oakland 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 $245, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Oakland 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 Oakland to California is September, when tickets cost $86 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and February, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $250 and $233 respectively.

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

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

When flying from Oakland to California, you should consider leaving on a Monday and avoid Tuesdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Oakland, 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 Oakland 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 Oakland 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 Oakland to California, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 4 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
High seasonJuly
Cheapest flight$18
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 2% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 19% lower on average.
Flight from Oakland to Las Vegas

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Oakland 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 Oakland 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 Oakland 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 Oakland 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 Oakland 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 $195 on average. Morning departures are around 31% 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 $302.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Oakland to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $71 one-way - $119 round-trip; San Diego $63 one-way - $120 round-trip; John Wayne (Santa Ana) $61 one-way - $101 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Oakland to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Oakland 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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Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 10000 reviews
8.5Crew
7.1Food
8.1Boarding
7.8Comfort
7.1Entertainment
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The setting on the loudspeaker was painful and the crew member who did the talking spoke very quickly and repetitively, with extra little jokes that were distracting and mostly unfunny. I doubt that the main messages penetrated the noise.

8.0 ExcellentCynthia, Jun 2025OAK - PDX
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The setting on the loudspeaker was painful and the crew member who did the talking spoke very quickly and repetitively, with extra little jokes that were distracting and mostly unfunny. I doubt that the main messages penetrated the noise.

Big delay of over 7 hours on next leg of trip with Alaska. Would have been nice to have food or something

The Alaska app and website were not fully operational. I had to spend about 15 minutes at the counter doing things that should have been completed online. The agent was very nice and helpful, however.

Good. They checked my bag FOR FREE so I didnt have to try to hoist it up into the overhead compartment. Also, they served free beverages, which I appreciated.

It was my first time flying Alaska Airlines and first time flying from Santa Rosa airport. The staff was very professional and friendly. Their instructions were clear and any question was answered satisfactorily. My seat was comfortable and the in-flight beverage service very adequate for the duration of the flight. We arrived ahead of the scheduled landing time and deplaning was simple. I look forward to flying with Alaska again.

Flight attendant took my carefully folded coat and flung it across the aisle to the bin across the way. Where one of the passengers rescued it for me, because that just wasn’t right!!

the flight was delayed twice and then delayed from taking off.

I’m New to Alaska Airlines. I was not able to connect to WiFi on either leg of my flights to/from Santa Rosa. Otherwise, it was an enjoyable ride.

All good. Great food and entertainment when there isn’t any on a one hour flight

Flight was delayed twice, I was forced to check my bag, and the only offered water or apple juice on the flight

Delayed flight. Nicest crew member was a SW pilot flying seated next to me who kindly move to seat the final passenger. Flight extra delayed. My cup of refreshment of ginger ale was so packed with ice it was literally 2 sips.

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.

We had a nice flight. Boarding was easy, our seats were comfortable and the on board service was pleasant.

Service was great, boarding and exiting went smoothly, and the flight was very pleasant.

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.

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

This had nothing to do with Delta… The flights were on time and flawless. The service was excellent. We purchased seats in (aisle/middle) comfort plus since this was a cross country flight. Unfortunately, the woman seated at the window was 300+ pounds and, as might be expected, covered up about a third of the middle seat also. there was absolutely nothing that Delta could have done about that… I just don’t know what the answer should be. If you purchase a seat, you should should be able to use the entire seat and not just the portion that someone else is not sitting/oozing in. Disappointing…there should be something that could be done….I'm just not sure what solution could be.

Boarding was a breeze, however, two of the flights that I boarded with Spirit did not have Wi-Fi available.

Very good. Nothing more or less than expected. No complaints.

My experience with the spirit as a first time it was OK, but the seats need a little cushion, the problem I had the most impacted me was when checking in the scales were so off and wrong. It will tell that you would have more weight, which was not true. The scale was say that it had Thirty Eight Pounds, when get in the labels when we send the luggage into the band. It says that it was overweight. I really really dislike that because the scales are not accurate. If I use Spirit and I have that issue again. That will be my last time flying with the spirit, even though I like so much to service the planes, and everything else

hahaha we are delayed for one hour plus.. but thx we arrived San Diego safe

Worst airline ever! The guy weighing my bag had his foot on the metal plate and when I called him out on it, I got this stupid little smirk. La is a scam and so is Spirit Airlines. All the flight attendants looked like they hated our flight just as much as we did.

Unclear pricing; ended up being charged an extra $52 just to get onboard

Spirit is awful. Too expensive for what you get. Stop nickel and diming.

would be great to get basic water, soda at least and stop charging for carry ons

Your crew is a representation of your Standards and Values. The crew from Seattle to LAX, was very disappointing. The crew was more interested in hanging out at the lobby area. Talking, laughing loudly and eating all the snacks. They did not do regular rounds to see if customers needed anything. This was a huge disappointment. I will no longer be flying with your airlines moving forward.

- flight attendants not very friendly. - Paid for WiFi and plane didn’t have it working , never got a refund.

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.

It was a short flight so no food or entertainment….

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