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$79 Find Cheap Flights from Portland to Denver

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Cheapest round-trip
$97
Typical prices: $273-$155
Frontier
Wed 4/15Wed 4/22
PDX - DEN • Non-stop
Cheapest one-way
$79
Typical prices: $100-$204
Frontier
Mon 7/20
PDX - DEN • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from Portland to Denver (PDX-DEN)

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

Wed, Apr 15 - Wed, Apr 22
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12:28 pm - 4:08 pm
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10:00 am - 11:52 am
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2h 52mnonstop
$97Frontier
Wed, Apr 15 - Wed, Apr 22
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12:28 pm - 4:08 pm
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2h 40mnonstop
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10:00 am - 11:52 am
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2h 52mnonstop
$98Frontier
Fri, May 1 - Mon, May 4
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11:48 am - 3:26 pm
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2h 38mnonstop
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9:10 am - 11:03 am
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2h 53mnonstop
$100Frontier
Wed, Apr 15 - Tue, Apr 21
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12:28 pm - 4:08 pm
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2h 40mnonstop
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10:00 am - 11:52 am
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$102Frontier
Tue, Apr 28 - Wed, Apr 29
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12:38 pm - 4:18 pm
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2h 40mnonstop
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10:00 am - 11:52 am
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$103Frontier
Sun, Apr 19 - Tue, Apr 21
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7:46 pm - 12:20 am
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$104Multiple Airlines
Thu, Apr 23 - Fri, Apr 24
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11:48 am - 3:26 pm
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9:10 am - 11:03 am
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$105Frontier
Fri, Apr 17 - Sat, Apr 18
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$106Frontier
Sat, Apr 18 - Sat, Apr 25
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9:49 am - 11:42 am
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$107Frontier
Wed, Apr 15 - Thu, Apr 23
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Portland to Denver flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Portland to Denver?

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

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Portland to Denver?

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

For Portland to Denver, Friday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Monday is the most expensive. Flying from Denver back to Portland, the best deals are generally found on Saturday, with Sunday being the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Portland to Denver?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Portland to Denver, 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 Portland to Denver is August, where tickets cost $173 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are March and December, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $278 and $247 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Portland to Denver?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Portland to Denver, 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 Portland to Denver, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 19% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 5 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from Portland to Denver

 
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Stefanie Waldek

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Stefanie Waldek is a freelance space, travel, and design writer based in Saratoga Springs, NY. Her words have appeared in Space.com, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, and House Beautiful, among other publications. An expert in aviation and expedition cruising, Stefanie is frequently up in the air or on the sea, likely en route to Antarctica or the Arctic.

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Gabriel is a writer and video creator. As senior content producer for Flightradar24 and Monocle’s transport correspondent, he keeps a close eye on aviation in particular. He has also written travel articles for the likes of The New York Times. Born in New York but raised around the world, he now lives in Sweden. He’s been to 75 countries, flying 2.3 million miles on 113 airlines and through 234 airports in the process.

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Harriet is an award-winning journalist who is happiest in an airport or an unusual museum. Her stories about airports, air travel, and the business of travel have appeared on NBC News, CNBC, USA TODAY, The Points Guy and other outlets. She is the creator of the StuckatTheAirport.com blog and the author of nine books. When not out on the road or exploring the latest airport amenities, she’s home in Seattle getting ready for the next adventure.

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Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$79
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 9% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 9% lower on average.
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When to book flights from Portland to Denver

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FAQs for booking flights from Portland to Denver

  • What is the cheapest flight from Portland to Denver?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Portland to Denver was $79 for a one-way ticket and $97 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Portland and Denver?

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

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Portland to Denver?

    All the following airlines offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Portland to Denver flight route: Alaska Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, American Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Aeromexico.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Portland to Denver?

    The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Portland to Denver flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Portland to Denver?

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

  • On which days can I fly direct from Portland to Denver?

    There are nonstop flights from Portland to Denver on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Portland to Denver, Southwest or Alaska Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Portland to Denver are Southwest and Alaska Airlines. With an average price for the route of $264 and an overall rating of 8.0, Southwest is the most popular choice. Alaska Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $256 and an overall rating of 7.9.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Portland to Denver?

    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 Portland to Denver.

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

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

    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 Denver with an airline and back to Portland with another airline. Booking your flights between Portland and DEN 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 Portland to Denver?

    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 Denver from Portland 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 Portland to Denver

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $150 or less one-way and $277 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Portland to Denver?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Portland to Denver Intl.
Find which airlines fly direct from Portland Airport to Denver Intl Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

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Portland to Denver Intl

Monday

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Tuesday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

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Wednesday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

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Thursday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

Alaska Airlines,Frontier, +2 more

Friday

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Saturday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

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Sunday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

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Direct returns

Denver Intl to Portland

Monday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

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Tuesday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

Alaska Airlines,Frontier, +2 more

Wednesday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

Alaska Airlines,Frontier, +2 more

Thursday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

Alaska Airlines,Frontier, +2 more

Friday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

Alaska Airlines,Frontier, +2 more

Saturday

Alaska Airlines,Frontier,Southwest, +1 more

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Sunday

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Portland to Denver

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Portland to Denver. 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 4331 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.1Boarding
7.5Entertainment
7.0Food
8.6Crew
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I have roller bag with food and medication told me I couldn't bring on my 2nd flight today. 15 years flying with SW never an issue with that bag.

2.0 MediocreStuart, Mar 2026
HOU - STL
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I have roller bag with food and medication told me I couldn't bring on my 2nd flight today. 15 years flying with SW never an issue with that bag.

Southwest continues to do less for more money. Flight attendants used to be fun and friendly. But now it’s like they don’t even see you. Such a shame.

Great flight. Good snacks and drinks. Grateful it was free. The flight from Nashville to louisville, i think her name was Tracy (not sure that's right) super awesome, nice and cheerful. She really enjoyed being at work today! She was the person who scanned the boarding pass on flight wn941. She should be recommended for a raise !

I liked it better when you were truer to your roots Am paying more for less fun

Southwest was greaat! The most expensive but the least upsetting for those we were flying to see.

I flew twice this week on Southwest, was delayed over 2 hours both ways. From Pittsburgh to Chicago it was due to weather but the gate agents, pilot etc were great at updating everyone. Today from Midway to Pittsburgh the plane had come from an international location, kept getting delayed, no information was given until we were delayed for the third time. It was ridiculous, whoever scheduled that plane to fly to Pittsburgh after didn’t consider a lot of things.

Boarding was easy. The seats are small and fairly uncomfortable

I was supposed to be on a later flight. When I showed up at the gate, the woman working there was extremely helpful getting moved up to this earlier flight.

We had a 5 hour delay on the tarmac in Baltimore

Long layover between flights to Long Island from BWI - need better coordination between flights

The ground crew was very good. They communicated clearly and continued updating. The flight crew was fine. The flight crew on the March 20th flight from MCI to Portland was excellent.

Flight on time. Easy boarding. Changing my seat was very easy.

Fine for a short flight. All went well. Snacks are lacking and I couldn’t hook up to wifi through the app, but it was fine.

Aircraft was freezing, cold air blowing on me the entire time and the individual fans were turned off.

The flight 2161 was cancelled after repeated delays; for some reason the crew and not the tower located in Billings, Montana made the call. A cancelled flight is not a big deal, it happens. It was very disappointing that upon cancelling the flight it was a free for all to get to the counter for rebooking. Priority seating and first class ticket holders should have been giving priority to get on the next available flight. Most would agree that the process of moving states away, w/a cat, is stressful. A cancelled flight, 90 minutes to rebook, no place to stay, medication that was to be refrigerated and trying to find a local pet friendly hotel significantly added to the stress. Had I been able to rebook (per priority boarding SOP) I could have called the place I had just checked out of as my room most likely was just as I'd left it, including with pet supplies (which also had to be repurchased). While waiting to rebook, many of us called Alaska Airlines 800 number hoping to get a new flight; the waiting time -- this is not a joke -- was eight (8) hours, which dropped to "just" two (2) hours about 45-minutes later. Due to the cancellation I had to spend $268.75 and I still have not been refunded for the change in ticket (first class to regular). Each time I've call, five times now, the wait time was absurd, or a message of call back is given. Hopefully visiting the airport and talking with an agent face to face will be the final chapter to this experience. Alaska has been my go to air travel for years, hopefully this trip was just a hiccup. A system that forces customer's to spend hours of their time (money) to get a just due refund is not a working system. I suggest Alaska Airlines hire more representatives to handle calls; time is more valuable than money, spending 90 minutes to rebook a flight, without the difference being automatic is absurd. There are things called computers, they do amazing things. Once the flight was cancelled, only three agents were working to rebook the PAX, This too was unacceptable. First class ticket holders pay for first-class service, this should include rebooking on flights that are cancelled. I recall a time when flights were cancelled the airline would offer a hotel should the next flight not be until the following day? I had no idea that was no longer SOP; many could return home, several of us could not. The agents were pleasant once the PAX had their turn to rebook, this was true down in baggage area as well. The flight out the next day was also what I'd come to find of Alaska Airlines.

Never got on because first part of trip was cancelled and we have no idea when we will get rebooked…

Wonderful as always! Pleasant staff, smooth ride, and timely departure.

Everything ran like it should. Staff was professional. Looking forward to flying with them again.

Liked the attention and speed when getting wheelchair..........Was assured by phone that my needs would be taken care of and they were with my name.

Crew very courteous. Boarding was great. Slow to get baggage at Denver.

The checking was disaster, the crew wasn't behave well. It took us two hours to check in, after that thr line at the TSA was long, we barely make the flight. Bad airline

Fabulous if you have a portable wheelchair. They can store it in the galley and you can just walk out with it. Really nice and the flat seats are just incredible, very nice. iPads for movies, also pretty nice,

The crew were exceptionally nice and accommodating. My wife was tired after the flight from Haneda, Tokyo. They let her sleep and served her dinner later after she woke up, before we landed in PDX.

No charging outlets worked. Other than collecting trash attendants didn’t come around. No one could hear flight attendants announcements during the flight. Seat pads were horrible. Sitting on a board for 5 hours. What happened to Hawaiian airlines comfort, hospitality, and extras? Our pilots did an excellent job trying to minimize turbulence and incredible job in landing in windy conditions.

I like that if they asked you to checked in a bag at the gate they give you priority to board

Horrible food and crew. Crew were laughing and talking loud while people were trying to sleep

Yall need to integrate your system with Alaska more efficiently. They booted me off the first flight because of a discrepancy on your end.

The crew at Hawaiian Airlines was fantastic. Kind and hard working. The pilots were great with giving us all the updates to make sure we were informed.

Very good. Nice plane and we sat in economy plus - bigger seats, more room. They served a meal and snacks, and the meal was an apple stuffed pancake that was very good! The snack for us was a hummus sandwich - also very good. The flight attendants were helpful and nice. They have plenty of movies and shows to watch. My only negative -- they changed our flights around and did not adjust the layovers, so we ended up with a very long and unnecessary layover in Honolulu.

I liked the Starlink WiFi but didn't like how they said they were the only airline to offer a free meal and it turns out to be just a standalone sandwich and then charge for snacks to go with it. Rather have the free snacks like Southwest, but have the option to purchase a decent meal for a 5+ hour flight.

During landing. 2 crew members passed 3 times by my lane and didn't notice that people in front of us had their site to the furthermore reclined... That was uncomfortable and could have been dangerous.

Seats are uncomfortable. This has been a trend in the industry for decades. Trying to fit more seats on each plane to increase profits at the expense of the passenger.

It’s always a great time flying with united airlines.

We got delayed three hours and nobody thought to have the bathroom fixed while we were sitting waiting to board? took a full hour to have maintenance come and check it off. Had to shut the bathroom down twice so that the pilots could go to the bathroom. Everyone missed their connections.

Women boarding passengers at the gate was absolutely rude and disrespectful of passengers. The flight attendant was absolutely delightful! Smiling and connected with the passengers. So happy. The seats are cramped and uncomfortable but I guess that’s just the way it is Communication regarding flight was excellent

As great a red-eye flight as red-eye flights can be.

Both of my flights arrived early and check in process was smooth

Everything was on time Will use united again for sure

The flight was delayed by two de-icings. The seatbelt did not work correctly. It did not stay tight.

Hotter than Hades in August. Why, why do crews think that in the winter when we are already dressed for cold weather we need a cabin that is 82 degrees. Even the vents were blowing hot air.

It was an early flight and most people napped/slept and the crew let us which was nice.

More inflight connection. And leg space is horrible. And the paying for baggage I'd ridiculous!!!

It was costly and difficult to check in. $85 to take a small suitcase with me, carry on or checked and $75 on the return trip, Plus $25 if I didn't check my self in check in $25, because I couldn't do it on the kiosk. Small very uncomfortable seats, waited on the runway for near an hour each way. It was my worst flight to date.

Due to weather, my flight was delayed, further delayed, then canceled. I eventually got through to a support person who helped me find a different route out of MSP, but to get to DIA, they didn't want to, but eventually did help with the connection ticket purchase. But even this replacement flight was delayed time and time again, and I would have missed my connecting flights and I didn't want to get stuck in a layover city, so after 12 hours at the airport with two young boys who were very tired, we just cancelled our plans and spent the week at home, instead of Nana's.

I knew going into this that Frontier, being a low cost carrier, would be pretty bare bones and charge for most extras but this was made up for by the fact that the airplane was a reasonably new Airbus, every employee was great and best of all, Everett Washington is an amazing airport - thanks Frontier for flying there!!!

Seats were new and comfortable. Staff was fine. Missed my connection due to weather -which wasn’t their fault- but got no help at all. Gate staff sent me to customer service, which was and stayed unstaffed. Sign with QR code directed me to call or chat. Chat was useless. Call was returned after an hour. No itinerary offered by Frontier could get me home in less than 30 hours. Rebooked with another airline and got a partial refund that came to about 10 percent of what I paid to get home.

The experience was good. No frills but I got there safe and sound and on time.

As every law enforcement agency I could imagine surrounded the plane and we didn’t disembark for 2 hours and then had to stick around for another hour to go get our personal belongings after leaving them behind and being bused away from the plane, it was scary and inconvenient. We were given no information as to why this was happening. Lack of communication with passengers was disappointing.

Frontier Airlines was AWFUL. I was an hour early for my flight and the lady refused to check me in. I had to purchase a whole new ticket with a different airline.

Late, terrible communication, horrible planning of passenger seating until the literal last minute. One of the worst flying experiences of my life. Y'all suck

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