$22 Find Cheap Flights from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to California

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Best California Flight Deals from Sky Harbor Intl

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours

Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$33
San Francisco
San Franciscononstop$37
San Diego
San Diegononstop$33
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$82
San Jose
San Josenonstop$38
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$120
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$186
Monterey
Montereynonstop$251
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$348
Bakersfield
Bakersfieldnonstop$360
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$324
Redding
Redding1 stop$296
Merced
Merced3 stops$403
Reno
Reno1 stop$104

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Low season

January

High season

July

Cheapest flight

$22
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 5% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 18% increase in price.
Flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to John Wayne (Santa Ana)

Flights from Sky Harbor Intl to California: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Sky Harbor Intl to California 
Verified travelerFlew with American AirlinesPHX-LAXJan 2025
Southwest seems to board and unload about as smooth as any airline - carry on items seem to work as smooth as any airline I have used. Southwest also does not charge to check bags which seems to encourage people to check bags instead of bring an enormous carry on item that does not fit well in the cabin.
MikeFlew with Alaska AirlinesPHX-SMFNov 2024
Coach passengers are allowed to use the first class restroom. Beware
MichaelFlew with American AirlinesPHX-SFOJun 2024
Upgraded - so everything went smooth, comfortable seats, nice attention from staff
Tuan-ThanhFlew with SouthwestPHX-SNAAug 2024
Try to be in group A if possible or steer clear of this airline.
KFlew with SouthwestPHX-LAXMay 2024
Book with a long gap if you have a connection on another airline. My flight from Phoenix was only 1 hr long but there was an over 2 hr delay in boarding. Luckily I allowed a 6 hour gap between flights for my other flight leaving overseas or I would have missed it. Many people like me fly one flight to LA which has a lot more international departures because it’s a lot cheaper to break the flights up than to book them together . So it’s important that flights are somewhat on time especially between different flights not connected with one booking.
ANAFlew with FrontierPHX-SANMar 2024
More staff because you have just a few and they look overwhelmed and tired and for that reason the quality is getting poor
AnnetteFlew with United AirlinesPHX-SFOJan 2024
United has the options for business folks needing earlier flights. Alaska has better flight attendants.

FAQs - booking California flights

  • How long is the flight to California from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl?

    Flights to Ontario1h 19m
    Flights to San Jose1h 57m
    Flights to Oakland1h 59m
    Flights to Long Beach1h 22m
    Flights to Burbank1h 36m
  • What is the cheapest flight to California from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl?

    The cheapest ticket to California from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl found in the last 72 hours was $22 one-way, and $46 round-trip. The most popular route is from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl to San Jose, and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $24.

  • Which airlines fly to California?

    Southwest flies most frequently to San Jose from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl. In general, American Airlines, Air Tahiti Nui and Delta fly the most to California.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to California.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to California up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $55 one-way - $69 round-trip; Los Angeles $93 one-way - $208 round-trip; San Francisco $89 one-way - $219 round-trip
  • Book at least 1 week before departure in order to get a below-average price.
  • High season is considered to be February, March and April. The cheapest month to fly from Phoenix is August.
  • Morning departure is around 8% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
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*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Top 5 airlines serving from Sky Harbor Intl to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Phoenix 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 Sky Harbor Intl 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
SouthwestOverall score based on 4553 reviews
8.1Comfort
7.7Entertainment
7.1Food
8.7Crew
8.2Boarding
Airline reviews

Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Dec 2024AUS - OAK
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Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

Was as expected. Crowed planes. Too many carryons delaying takeoff. But the ride only took an hour and saved me a lot of time SFO is a not a great airport.

Was as expected. Crowed planes. Too many carryons delaying takeoff. But the ride only took an hour and saved me a lot of time SFO is a hell hole of an airport. It is the new LaGuardia. Everything Cobbled together. Security gates closed. Terri directional signage

Delayed 4 hours due to mechanical issues. No mention of compensation for being over 3 hours late

I will be flying again Southwest Airlines. Friendly crew, comfortable and affordable.

The plane arrived 25 minutes late, and the Wi-Fi was slower than it usually is.

At time of arrival to the airport, there were plenty of kiosks open/running for checking and baggage tags. While waiting to drop my bag, a team member was checking everyone's IDs against their baggage tag to verify a match/compliance to save additional time when dropping it at the front of the line. This was actually a really big time saver and greatly appreciated! Once boarding was starting, the team member had a clear and audible voice with their announcements, with direct (yet friendly) instructions for the boarding process. Once actually boarding, the flight crew gave genuine greetings while walking on board and were very nice and attentive during the flight. The take-off and landing were one of the smoothest I've had in MANY of years. Kudos to the pilots! I literally cannot remember the last time a had such a smooth landing :D

Forget beverage, they didn't even have water for half the passangers?

Can not wait for seating change to reduce the amount of pre boards - it’s disheartening the abuse. And then then deplaning

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.

If I pay extra for "comfort+" I expect leg room where I can stretch my legs. I was seated with an attendant's seat blocking my feet. Knee space was fine but my feet had less room than the non-"comfort+" seats. Also, don't go cheap on food when you have flights of 3+ hours. It's insulting.

Only one side of the heafphone jack work. Crew was friendly and helpful.

Great. Flight departed early and arrived early. Deplaning and baggage claim ww were quick.

They separated our seats and moved us to the back of the plane. Hundreds of dollars and thousands of miles used and this was my platinum member experience.

AC barely worked on a 50 minute flight. It was very warm the whole flight. Flight was very bumpy and hard landing.

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

The flight was canceled two hours before departure, it took over five hours to rebook us on another flight.

Rough day of travel all the way around. Wrong info given to us multiple times and mistakes in their booking making our trip 10 hours longer than planned. I’m bummed because I fly Delta all the time and love them. Mistakes happen. Just bummed that this was a rare trip our whole family was traveling together.

Meh. A late flight meant I missed my connections, and a 2pm LAX arrival turned into gettin in after midnight.

It was good until there was a 3 hour delay because there was not any pilots to fly the plane.

For the most part united was a good experience, how ever when they came by with the snacks and water, they completely passed by my wife and I. As we were in separate rows. On a 5 hr flight we were not offered water

Fantastic crew. Flight was delayed at last minute but we were given updates every 20 minutes and the crew was so friendly and considerate. I miss the touch screens on the back of the seats, wish they would bring that back though.

Awful. Worst airline I have ever been on. Crew were among the rudest people I have ever dealt with. United staff members were rude and disrespectful. My flight was delayed, causing me to miss a connecting flight. I understand things happen, but when staff start lying about what actually happened, that is when I have an issue. Just be honest, really it isn’t that hard. I’m being very honest with this review and I don’t find this difficult what so ever. In fact, because of United Airlines, my Christmas holiday was off to a really rocky start. As someone who has traveled across the world, it has only been United that I have had a truly awful experience.

Boarding always seems a bit chaotic. Seat spacing could leave more for leg room.

Good flight. On time. Boarding and seating was easy. Crew were really friendly, yet professional. Bathroom (by cockpit) was small but serviceable. Some the seats were showing some notable wear & tear, but were comfy. Very happy UA customer. TY! 🤛🏽💗

We arrived early and finally made it to our gate almost an hour after.

We were delayed 3x and because I didn’t purchase my tickets directly from United Airlines I was told I Have to take care of it myself so I called Underpricer and they helped me but before I changed my flights I took the risk of sticking by what my tickets were and was lucky to have gotten on the original all flight with only 15 mins before take off. not sure if I will do this again

Everything good until we waited for jet bridge at SFO. Then pilot gets on speaker & said it won’t reach plane- too short, need to go to different gate. Then 5 min later, adjusted plane/jetbridge & all ok?!?

Was a pain having to leave the plane and reboard but glad the plane was fixed

We had to wait almost an hour for the wheelchair porter to be ready to pick up my mother. And when she arrived in Newark airport the porter was not there and she started walking with her cane and her poor mobility. When the Newark porter found her they didn't want to transfer her bags to the wheelchair for her.

Plane was pretty clean, staff was friendly and helpful, flight left about on time arrived early. Took a long time to board and get off the plane - carry on items didn't have enough room so people had to move all around to find places.

Service in first class no longer exists on American Airlines .

My seat was very worn. Otherwise I had an excellent flight

Boarding can be more efficiently done by having the back row passengers board first. This way, the other people do the have to wait for front row passengers to load their luggage in the overhead cabins. Food is simply pathetic for the price I paid. Cleanliness is simply poor; my seat was full of crumps.

Always a great flight on AA. PHX to DFW and vise versa is always going to be a pretty full flight but the crew handles it phenomenally.

also wi-fi never worked attendant said satellite coverage is spotty over water ..... but we were over land!

16 Hours delayed, NOT because of the cybersecurity Microsoft issue, but because we were one flight attendant short, then when the missing flight attendant showed up two hours later, the flying shift of our pilot had expired, so, now no pilot. American Airlines is the new Spirit Airlines, actually, that is not fair for Spirit, they are probably better.

Worst flight in terms of service and food. Attendants were inexperienced, no preflight drinks, did come and give us hot towels until well into the flight. The left the Curtin open between main cabin and everyone from the main cabin went to the fist class bathroom. Food was awful! Had the golden chicken and was too lemony and inedible. No offer of coffee after. Awful!

My morning PHX to NY flight was canceled. Not a cloud in the sky. No wind. No weather across the country. My guess is they canceled the flight because they didn’t have enough people or a mechanical issue. Either way really bad. I checked it at midnight and the 830a flight was on time so I was very surprised when I woke up to see the flight canceled and I’ve been rebooked on a flight… An hour earlier than my originally scheduled one. Of course I missed this earlier flight because AA texted at 4 AM when I was sleeping. I was re routed to Miami, boarded a plane, sat in the heat for 40 minutes, then boarded because of mechanical issues and had to wait another hour before finally getting to New York Ironically, the 430 Phoenix to New York flight landed at the same time I did… I could’ve been sitting at the pool all day vs jumping through hoops. never ever will I again fly American Airlines. No offer of a free drink, maybe a few points on my advantage account nothing… As if nothing happened and they did not inconvenienced me at all. I’m so sick of the dumb crackers that they give us on these flights. It’s really like a budget Airlines these days. A far fall for s once mighty company.

Delayed by over 4 hrs, missed all international connections. Horrible customer service.

My experience with the phoenix airport was terrible, the personnel lay the ticket counter charged me for a carry on that fit in the carry on size box, and the two women I spoke with were terribly rude and not willing to help.,,, there was one lady “candy” on the flight crew that was amazing and is the only reason I stayed on the flight at all, because the other stewards helping people to get seated on the plane were terrible

The plane was clean, the crew was friendly and helpful. It’s a low cost airline so there was no food, drinks or in flight entertainment but we didn’t expect any of these things. In the room for improvement department, they should install USB ports in seats to charge mobile devices.

I was surprised that all baggage, including carry on, were charged. Each additional bag went up in cost. Really disappointed in the additional costs.

I ended up paying $70+ dollars to for a carryon because the website is confusing and misleading. I now realize I did not need to pay that. I request a refund. I will pay extra to other airlines and not fly Frontier again.

Charges unexpected. For seat that didnt recline. Please reverse extra seat and carryon charge. Bad business that is a bait and switch.

I couldn’t check in because the app didn’t work. It took 3 Frontier employees at the counter to get me checked in. Flight left 3 hours after departure time

Stop changing gates at sfo. When you are elderly going back for it’s not fun.

There was no easy way to check in. I don't want to install an app to checkin. I will use alaska from now on because they have a web check in method that is easy.

The crew was ghetto lol I felt like I was on an inner city field trip

Horrible! The short distance flight ended up taking 5 hrs! There was a 3 hr delay for the flight to take off and there was a 70 min wait on the tarmac for some bogus reason that the pilot said the gate he was supposed to board was taken up. After a 30 min wait he said the plane that was supposed to push out of the gate called a medical emergency and 40 min later he ended up boarding another gate. For the initial 3 hr delay there was no information/alert about the gate or delay in the app or the boards up until the boarding time and even beyond! Had to walk all the way to the end of the terminal to find the frontier staff to ask what was going on. Avoid this airline at all costs! If you have carryon bags or checked bags , their prices come equivalent to the prices of more reliable airlines. They are the worst in timeliness at 60% (reported as delayed) this year (check the data) by a high margin even compared to the second worst airline. If you are ok with having a miserable flight experience with the odds close to flip of a coin, feel free to try them. If you value your time , money and flying experience, stay away.

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Recent round-trip flight deals

 
These are the cheapest round-trip flights from Phoenix to California found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
3/11Tue
nonstopFrontier
1h 29mPHX-LAX
3/11Tue
nonstopFrontier
1h 34mLAX-PHX
$33
2/22Sat
nonstopFrontier
1h 20mPHX-SAN
2/22Sat
nonstopFrontier
1h 26mSAN-PHX
$33
3/5Wed
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 19mPHX-ONT
3/12Wed
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 18mONT-PHX
$137
2/27Thu
nonstopSouthwest
1h 30mPHX-LAX
3/3Mon
nonstopSouthwest
1h 25mLAX-PHX
$137
3/5Wed
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 27mPHX-ONT
3/11Tue
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 18mONT-PHX
$139
3/6Thu
nonstopSouthwest
1h 20mPHX-ONT
3/13Thu
1 stopSouthwest
4h 15mONT-PHX
$147
5/30Fri
nonstopDelta
1h 31mPHX-LAX
6/1Sun
nonstopDelta
1h 29mLAX-PHX
$157
5/7Wed
nonstopUnited Airlines
2h 08mPHX-SFO
5/8Thu
nonstopUnited Airlines
2h 07mSFO-PHX
$159
3/14Fri
1 stopDelta
6h 25mPHX-SAN
3/18Tue
1 stopDelta
4h 45mSAN-PHX
$182
7/3Thu
1 stopUnited Airlines
3h 38mPHX-SFO
7/7Mon
1 stopUnited Airlines
3h 39mSFO-PHX
$184

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Phoenix to California found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
3/27Thu
nonstopFrontier
1h 28mPHX-SNA
$22
5/5Mon
nonstopFrontier
1h 13mPHX-LAS
$22
3/5Wed
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 27mPHX-ONT
$69
5/6Tue
nonstopUnited Airlines
2h 08mPHX-SFO
$75
5/6Tue
nonstopSouthwest
1h 55mPHX-OAK
$75
4/15Tue
nonstopSouthwest
2h 05mPHX-SJC
$79
3/8Sat
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 21mPHX-ONT
$84
3/12Wed
2 stopsUnited Airlines
8h 29mPHX-SAN
$85
6/27Fri
1 stopDelta
4h 08mPHX-SFO
$99
3/4Tue
1 stopDelta
4h 46mPHX-SJC
$99

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Last minute flights from Sky Harbor Intl to California

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These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Phoenix to California that are departing in the next 10 days.
2/11Tue
nonstopFrontier
1h 29mPHX-LAX
2/18Tue
multi-stopFrontier
16h 42mLAX-PHX
$74
2/8Sat
nonstopFrontier
1h 20mPHX-SAN
2/11Tue
nonstopFrontier
1h 24mSAN-PHX
$80
2/11Tue
multi-stopSouthwest
5h 40mPHX-LAX
2/18Tue
multi-stopSouthwest
3h 25mLAX-PHX
$252
2/8Sat
nonstopSouthwest
2h 10mPHX-SFO
2/12Wed
nonstopSouthwest
1h 55mSFO-PHX
$300
2/7Fri
multi-stopDelta
4h 47mPHX-SJC
2/10Mon
multi-stopDelta
5h 45mSJC-PHX
$316
2/11Tue
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 18mPHX-ONT
2/27Thu
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 16mONT-PHX
$364
2/11Tue
multi-stopDelta
9h 17mPHX-SAN
2/12Wed
multi-stopDelta
4h 34mSAN-PHX
$371
2/11Tue
nonstopUnited Airlines
2h 15mPHX-SFO
2/14Fri
nonstopUnited Airlines
2h 03mSFO-PHX
$409
2/8Sat
nonstopUnited Airlines
2h 15mPHX-SFO
2/15Sat
nonstopUnited Airlines
2h 03mSFO-PHX
$414
2/11Tue
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 37mPHX-ONT
2/12Wed
nonstopAmerican Airlines
1h 18mONT-PHX
$415

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