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Cheapest round-trip
$244
Typical prices: $309-$497
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PHL - SMF • 1 stop
Cheapest one-way
$118
Typical prices: $212-$389
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Cheap Flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento (PHL-SMF)

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

Mon, Aug 31 - Thu, Sep 3
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$244Frontier
Fri, Aug 28 - Mon, Aug 31
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$248Frontier
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$316Multiple Airlines
Fri, Oct 23 - Mon, Oct 26
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$318Multiple Airlines
Wed, Sep 16 - Sat, Sep 19
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$343American Airlines
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$343American Airlines
Wed, Sep 16 - Sat, Sep 19
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$348Southwest
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$348Southwest
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$353Delta
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Philadelphia to Sacramento flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Philadelphia to Sacramento departing in August.

Flight prices are below average for this route right now.

Flights to Sacramento from Philadelphia usually cost between $320 and $442 in August.
The lowest price found in the past 5 days was $244 on Frontier (Aug 31-Sep 3).

What is the cheapest month to fly from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento, 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 Philadelphia to Sacramento is January, where tickets cost $341 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and November, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $543 and $531 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento, 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 Philadelphia to Sacramento, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 47% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 4 weeks before departure.

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February

Cheapest flight

$118
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 3% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 16% lower on average.
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When to book flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento

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FAQs for booking flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento

  • Where can I affordably park my car at PHL before my flight to Sacramento?

    The most affordable option for parking your car long-term at PHL is Economy Parking. Economy Parking is not close enough to the terminals to walk, but the Economy Parking lots run free shuttles between the lots in the terminals 24/7. You may also choose to park off airport grounds in private parking lots. These options are often quite affordable and usually offer free shuttle service to the terminals at PHL.

  • Does PHL have a military lounge?

    Yes. The Liberty USO of PHL welcomes active-duty military personnel and their families to use this lounge free of charge. Located airside in Terminal E past the security checkpoint, this lounge is open daily from 6 am to 6 pm. Amenities include refreshments, TV, comfy seating, devices for connectivity, games, and more.

  • Does SMF provide any baby care facilities?

    Yes. If you are a traveling mom who wants to breastfeed in private or needs to pump or change your baby as soon as you land in Sacramento, you can use the Nursing Rooms located airside, one near Gate A10 or the one near B15. This clean, private space has a comfortable chair, a table, changing pads, a sink, and a power outlet placed to make use of an electric breast pump easy.

  • Where do I go to pick up my rental car at SMF?

    The car rental agencies at SMS are located in the Rental Car Terminal located in a separate facility that passengers can get to on a free shuttle that departs from the Arrivals curb about every 10min. Some agencies in this facility include Enterprise, Budget, Hertz, Avis, Zipcar, and more.

  • What is the cheapest flight from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

    In the last 5 days, the lowest price for a flight from Philadelphia to Sacramento was $118 for a one-way ticket and $244 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Philadelphia and Sacramento?

    No, a passport isn't needed to fly from Philadelphia to Sacramento. However, local authorities might ask for an official ID.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

    Philadelphia and Sacramento are both served by 1 main airport. You will leave Philadelphia from Philadelphia and will be arriving at Sacramento Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

    Star Alliance, SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Philadelphia and Sacramento, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento, Southwest or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento are Southwest and Delta. With an average price for the route of $479 and an overall rating of 8.0, Southwest is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $456 and an overall rating of 7.8.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Philadelphia to Sacramento?

    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 Philadelphia to Sacramento.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Sacramento from Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia to Sacramento?

    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 Sacramento with an airline and back to Philadelphia with another airline. Booking your flights between Philadelphia and SMF 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 Philadelphia to Sacramento?

    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 Sacramento from Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia to Sacramento

  • Located at the southern end of Philadelphia on the shores of the Delaware River, the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is a hub for American Airlines and also a focus city for Frontier. Northwest of downtown Sacramento, the Sacramento International Airport (SMF) serves as the hub for West Air.
  • When you are booking your ticket from Philadelphia to Sacramento, it is unlikely that you will find a direct flight. However, Spirit Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Delta, American, and United are among the carriers that offer a flight with one stop from PHL to SMF. Layovers occur in cities such as Las Vegas (LAS), Salt Lake City (SLC), Atlanta (ATL), Chicago (ORD), and more.
  • If you want to stay near PHL the night before your flight to SMF, consider checking in to the Philadelphia Airport Marriott hotel, which is connected to the airport. From the hotel, take the sky bridge to Terminal B. If you need to get to a different terminal, free shuttles depart from the hotel about every 20min between 4 am and noon.
  • If your muscles feel jumpy or stiff when you deplane at SMS, you can take advantage of the services at the Massage Bar located airside in Terminal B. Open from 8 am to 9 pm Sunday through Friday and 9 am to 6 pm on Saturday, this retail massage outlet offers massages that last either 30min, 15min, or 10min.
  • As you are making your way through PHL, you might catch sight or sound of the live entertainment that PHL provides. Periodically throughout the year, especially in summer and in the holiday months in winter. To enhance your traveling pleasure, PHL hires musicians, choirs, historic impersonators, artists, and caricaturists. And come December, you might even see Santa Claus.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Philadelphia to Sacramento

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Philadelphia to Sacramento. 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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SouthwestOverall score based on 4222 reviews
7.5Entertainment
8.6Crew
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
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Not having a five hour delay with little notice! The crew was very kind, though, and just as tired as we passengers were. The flight didn't depart until nearly 1 am...and no reason was ever given.

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, May 2026
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Not having a five hour delay with little notice! The crew was very kind, though, and just as tired as we passengers were. The flight didn't depart until nearly 1 am...and no reason was ever given.

Connecting flight is on time and boarding was a breeze!

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.

The crew was nice. Boarding sucked. Instead of loading from the back to the front people just sat wherever and you had to wait for them to move to get to a seat. And the flight was 25 minutes delayed.

I boarded last because of my boarding assignment and was given a middle seat at the back of the plane. I’m 6”1” so it was really tight. I wish I just had a seat assignment instead of a general boarding group. My bag was way at the front and my seat at the back. Was never offered a beverage and had no room to move.

The cabin was very cold with the air conditioning on at a very high level. I used my phone app that displays room temperature and it registered 67 degrees.

Boarding was quick. The flight itself was good. However, no charging ports for cell phones. Also, the food provided was just a few snacks. For a 5-hr flight, I would expect at least a sandwich.

Delayed a hour and a bit because of some tape on the tail. They were good about letting us know but should have been done before we were scheduled to depart.

I arrived to the airport early. I found an earlier flight and went to the gate, the employee working at the gate was able to get me on the earlier flight at no charge and she was so friendly! She made my day!!!

Comfortable seats. Nice service online. Short flight, so not a lot of time to enjoy.

The flight was done by SkyWest only WIFI no entertainment center are available on the CRJ

Delta is always late. Ruined our first day of a short vacation. Timing is important. We pay to stay on an itinerary

We never made it on this flight because we missed our connection due to o delayed flight from Jackson.

We got stuck on the tarmac taxiing after landing early so we didn’t get off the plane until an hour later than we thought we would

Connection flights should be spaced out farther because too close I missed my connection.

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

The gate attendants and the crew were terrible. Because of high winds, they needed to carry more fuel, so they had to get volunteers to take the next flight at 6 am the next day. They did a terrible job of it - our flight ended up taking off just under 3 hours of the scheduled time. I hope to never fly Delta again.

Got on the plane and then needed to deboard the plane because they didn’t have any pilots?

My flight consistently said it was on time and the plane didn’t arrive until after 30 minutes after take off and nothing was announced to passengers

The flight crew were very helpful. The seats were very close together. There was barely room to sit without touching the person next to you.

The SFO lounge closes at 12 midnight. My flight took off at 2AM

newer aircraft, ability to connect my headset via blue tooth for entertainment.

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

My husband and I recently had an unfortunate experience with Lufthansa. At the Philadelphia International airport, the ground staff refused to board us because we didn’t have a current visa stamped on our passports for Frankfurt. We completely understand that this was our mistake. we should have double-checked the visa requirements before our trip. However, the issue that upset us most was how the situation was handled by the staff. They told us they would mark it as “boarding denied due to visa issue”, but instead they recorded it as “no show”. Because of that incorrect entry, our return flight was automatically cancelled as well, which caused additional stress and expense. Mistakes can happen, but we expected more transparency and accuracy from a reputed airline like Lufthansa. It would have made a big difference if the staff had been more careful and considerate in documenting the situation correctly.

Everything was good, except the seats in economy were so close together, you could barely get out when the seat in front of your was reclined. If the airlines keep jamming in more and more seats, it will become intolerable. I will look for another airline that considers customer comfort and does not keep adding more rows of seats for more profit.

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

Flight attendant moved my bag without notifying me and was rude to me when I asked him about it. There was no reason to move it.

Flight was on time, crew were excellent. For some reason our originally selected seats were changed. We had to re-choose our seats when we checked in online and options were limited. One of our two checked bags we placed on the wrong carousel. It was only be shear luck that I saw it. That cost us 20 minutes of wasted time. So much for the “priority” tags. They are meaningless, and have been ever since they were implemented. I wish you would do the save some money and stop using them.

I was refused to used the toilet closes to my seat and had to go to the back of the plane .. it was difficult for me I’m a wheelchair customer

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

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.

Did not get the seat I selected and paid for.

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.

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.

For coast to coast travel the A321 and even the NEO, even in first class will never be excellent. That would take a B787 or 777 to accomplish.

I was unhappy with having the seat I chose changed at the last minute. I was moved to an aisle seat which did not recline and was next to the bathroom. The bathroom odors made the flight entirely unpleasant. Having carefully chosen my seat months before I was not pleased with my AA experience. In addition, they ran out of tea during flight service, really?

There were delays on both ends. It made it less than excellent. This plane was great though

Attendants were rude. Scowling. Seats were miserable and we paid extra.

We experience delays on departure and connecting flights resulting in 14 hour to our next departure. We were accommodated with a night's stay but was only provided a 12 dollar meals accommodation. The airlines rules state.at least 50 dollars. In any case, it can not make up for the whole day missed on our vacation in Sydney Australia.

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.

Terrible. Flight cancelled with no reasoning and no flights to rebook. Employees were useless and did nothing to help. Did not even know where to retrieve luggage from the cancelled flight. Flyers beware.

sluggish boarding and arrival procedures, fake nice flight attendants, and lots of delays.

Very bad! No good service delayed my second connection flight

You get what you pay for nothing essentially but a hard uncomfortable seat that doesn’t recline and kids screaming all around you and chaotic boarding and limited check bag weight allowance when compared to other airlines

Not very good. Paid in excess of $400 for assigned seating for my family and that was not provided. I want that money back.

Check in at Philadelphia international was absolutely terrible! I fly 2 to 3 times a month and avoid frontier at all cost and will never fly Frontier again! The night before travel, I tried checking in however, the app was giving me an error, so I went to the desktop, which instructed you that you need to use the app. The next day I presented at the check-in gate after trying at least a half dozen times prior to getting into the airport and continuing to getting the error in the app. I actually had rebooted my phone numerous times and reinstall the app just in case. My phone is only one generation older than the current model. It has no problems completing a frontier flight purchase or any other app issues. There was only three frontier employees working at check-in and a huge line while I was in line I continued to try and check in via the app. As I approach the desk, I was dreading dealing with the agent. He was extremely unprofessional, anti-semantic & very ignorant, and mean to the people in front of me, as well as the people who ended up being behind me. He literally told people “Man I don’t care bout y’all” in his native dialect! Maintaining my composure I approached and explained the situation. To which he replied, you’re gonna have to pay then! I don’t understand. It’s an issue with their app not allowing me to check in! Not my issue! He told me if I pay cash it would be $15, $25 if I pay credit card. I don’t understand a $10 difference for paying with a credit card? I am completely cashless so I continued to try using the app to avoid the $25 fee, Which I still don’t believe that I should be responsible for since it was Frontier’s technical issue!!! I continued to check in via the app a couple more times after he verified I was doing everything right he proceeded to continue to belittle the people behind me. Yelling at them saying I don’t care about you people! I cannot believe that this is the way that businesses would treat its customers! Unfortunately, the black mail with dreadlocks did not have a name tag all he had was a frontier sweater on! For the $25 fee that I ended up getting charged on my credit card. I should’ve just booked originally with Spirit or any other carrier! I have no problem paying fees that I should be responsible for, but when it’s due to a technical failure of a company, the customer should not be responsible for it! I cannot believe that it’s not frontier going out of business!

terrible cascading delays and unhelpful customer service. uncomfortable plane. crew was great, however!

Booked direct in July '24. Turned into a 14 hr layover (both ways) in Denver. My 5 day vaca turned into a 1 day . Not good, BUT,... Thank you for the people @ Frontier who were professionally friendly & approachable.

$80 fee for a backpack as a personal item is robbery.

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