$33 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$75
San Francisco
San Franciscononstop$72
San Diego
San Diegononstop$65
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$112
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$164
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$172
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$208
Bakersfield
Bakersfieldnonstop$365
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$359
Redding
Redding1 stop$256
Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes1 stop$776
Reno
Reno1 stop$158
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$166
Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$75
San Francisco
San Franciscononstop$72
San Diego
San Diegononstop$65
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$112
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$164
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$172
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$208
Bakersfield
Bakersfieldnonstop$365
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$359
Redding
Redding1 stop$256
Mammoth Lakes
Mammoth Lakes1 stop$776
Reno
Reno1 stop$158
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$166

Cheap Flights from Sky Harbor Intl to California

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

Tue, Jul 29 - Mon, Aug 4
Frontier Logo
1:00 pm - 2:13 pmPHX-SAN
1h 13mnonstop
Frontier Logo
1:12 pm - 2:42 pmSAN-PHX
1h 30mnonstop
$65Frontier
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Wed, Aug 27 - Sat, Aug 30
Frontier Logo
8:00 am - 9:14 amPHX-LAS
1h 14mnonstop
Frontier Logo
9:33 pm - 10:51 pmLAS-PHX
1h 18mnonstop
$65Frontier
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Sat, Aug 23 - Wed, Aug 27
Frontier Logo
8:00 am - 9:14 amPHX-LAS
1h 14mnonstop
Frontier Logo
9:05 pm - 10:23 pmLAS-PHX
1h 18mnonstop
$66Frontier
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Thu, Aug 7 - Mon, Aug 11
Southwest Logo
11:30 am - 12:40 pmPHX-ONT
1h 10mnonstop
Southwest Logo
12:55 pm - 2:15 pmONT-PHX
1h 20mnonstop
$97Southwest
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Thu, Aug 7 - Mon, Aug 11
American Airlines Logo
3:04 pm - 4:24 pmPHX-ONT
1h 20mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
12:22 pm - 1:39 pmONT-PHX
1h 17mnonstop
$98American Airlines
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Wed, Aug 13 - Tue, Aug 19
Southwest Logo
3:15 pm - 8:15 pmPHX-ONT
5h 00m1 stop
Southwest Logo
8:35 am - 9:50 amONT-PHX
1h 15mnonstop
$107Southwest
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Tue, Sep 9 - Mon, Sep 15
Delta Logo
6:40 am - 8:10 amPHX-LAX
1h 30mnonstop
Delta Logo
2:00 pm - 3:30 pmLAX-PHX
1h 30mnonstop
$117Delta
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Wed, Jul 23 - Sat, Aug 23
Delta Logo
9:14 am - 10:47 amPHX-LAX
1h 33mnonstop
Delta Logo
7:15 am - 8:44 amLAX-PHX
1h 29mnonstop
$122Delta
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Wed, Jul 30 - Wed, Aug 6
American Airlines Logo
4:58 pm - 6:08 pmPHX-ONT
1h 10mnonstop
American Airlines Logo
6:17 am - 7:33 amONT-PHX
1h 16mnonstop
$164American Airlines
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Thu, Aug 14 - Sun, Aug 17
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 9:51 amPHX-SMF
3h 51m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
6:10 am - 10:48 amSMF-PHX
4h 38m1 stop
$267United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Sky Harbor Intl to California flights

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

What is the cheapest Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to California.

The cheapest ticket to California from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport found in the last 72 hours was to San Diego, at $98 round-trip. The most popular route is from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport (PHX) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $99.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport 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.

Yes, flying with a layover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 2 stops layover the cheapest option at $455 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to California?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to California is August, when tickets cost $113 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and May, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $177 and $157 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to California?

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

Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to California on a Friday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, you should consider flying back on a Saturday, and avoid Sundays for better deals.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport 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 Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl Airport to California, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 5 weeks before departure.


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Low seasonJanuary
High seasonJuly
Cheapest flight$33
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 8% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 17% increase in price.
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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.
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.

FAQs - booking California flights

  • 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.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to California?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to California is generally in the evening, when round-trip flights cost $532 on average. Morning departures are around 21% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,115.

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 $79 one-way - $116 round-trip; Los Angeles $110 one-way - $211 round-trip; San Francisco $100 one-way - $172 round-trip

Reviews of the 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.
8.0
SouthwestOverall score based on 4273 reviews
8.6Crew
8.2Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.0Food
7.6Entertainment
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First time traveling on Southwest since bag fees were implemented. Usual good service. Just more expensive now.

8.0 ExcellentMichael, Jun 2025PHX - SAN
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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.

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

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.

Delta is a premier airline so my expectations are most always met.

Seats are much much more comfortable than United, which is what I usually fly

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.

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

Generally good. The aisles have gotten narrower which can slow down boarding. Flight crew was great! Healthier complimentary snacks would be appreciated. Due to earthquake in San Francisco we had to circle in air space for a bit but then had a smooth landing. I laud the flight crew for their patience ;)

Overall, a good experience. The food, however, was subpar. The breakfast was a joke.

First world problems, but still… We were seated in first class and asked for a cocktail on a very short, 50 minute flight. After our drink order was taken, a half hour went by, and we noticed that every other person in the small plane had been served except for us. We got up to ask about it, the drinks finally came, then were taken away three minutes later since the flight was so short. Really strange situation, on the other hand, we were in Utah.

Boarding took forever, the plane was cramped and cold, and the seatbelt song came on constantly throughout the red eye flight with a loud pre-recorded message playing each time

Wonderful crew and early arrival to our destination. It was so nice to have free wifi access and movies too. Thank you!

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

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.

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

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.

Everything went as planned. Crew was great. Seats were still not that comfortable.

Early arrival. Great landing. Pilot updates. Too cold in plane.

No frills for sure. No gate announcements about flight delay, not even water to drink on the flight.

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.

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