$72 Find Cheap Flights from Portland to California

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Best California Flight Deals from Portland

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$159
San Francisco
San Francisco2 stops$156
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$201
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$357
Palm Springs
Palm Springs2 stops$451
Fresno
Fresno2 stops$316
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo2 stops$414
Arcata
Arcata2 stops$419
Reno
Reno1 stop$285
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$201
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$159
San Francisco
San Francisco2 stops$156
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$201
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$357
Palm Springs
Palm Springs2 stops$451
Fresno
Fresno2 stops$316
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo2 stops$414
Arcata
Arcata2 stops$419
Reno
Reno1 stop$285
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$201

Cheap Flights from Portland to California

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

Wed, Sep 24 - Sat, Sep 27
Southwest Logo
3:40 pm - 10:25 pmPWM-SFO
9h 45m2 stops
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9:05 pm - 9:40 amSFO-PWM
9h 35m1 stop
$156Southwest
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Sat, Sep 6 - Mon, Sep 8
American Airlines Logo
9:18 am - 3:09 pmPWM-SFO
8h 51m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
11:10 am - 11:05 pmSFO-PWM
8h 55m1 stop
$159American Airlines
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Sat, Sep 6 - Fri, Sep 12
Delta Logo
11:48 am - 3:54 pmPWM-LAS
7h 06m1 stop
Delta Logo
12:45 am - 10:38 amLAS-PWM
6h 53m1 stop
$257Delta
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Thu, Sep 4 - Sun, Sep 7
Delta Logo
6:00 am - 4:11 pmPWM-LAS
13h 11m2 stops
Delta Logo
12:35 am - 10:42 amLAS-PWM
7h 07m1 stop
$262Delta
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Mon, Sep 22 - Tue, Sep 30
United Airlines Logo
6:23 pm - 11:59 pmPWM-SFO
8h 36m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
9:15 pm - 9:11 amSFO-PWM
8h 56m1 stop
$264United Airlines
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Sat, Nov 8 - Sat, Nov 15
United Airlines Logo
3:20 pm - 8:54 pmPWM-SAN
8h 34m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
11:02 am - 11:59 pmSAN-PWM
9h 57m2 stops
$270United Airlines
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Mon, Sep 15 - Fri, Sep 19
JetBlue Logo
2:17 pm - 9:12 pmPWM-LAS
9h 55m1 stop
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11:59 pm - 1:22 pmLAS-PWM
10h 23m1 stop
$287JetBlue
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Wed, Sep 3 - Tue, Sep 9
JetBlue Logo
2:17 pm - 9:29 pmPWM-ONT
10h 12m1 stop
JetBlue Logo
10:56 pm - 1:22 pmONT-PWM
11h 26m1 stop
$291JetBlue
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Thu, Aug 7 - Sun, Aug 10
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12:46 pm - 9:21 pmPWM-SNA
35h 35m3 stops
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12:21 pm - 11:45 amSNA-PWM
20h 24m2 stops
Thu, Aug 7 - Thu, Aug 14
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12:46 pm - 7:03 pmPWM-SNA
33h 17m3 stops
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6:45 am - 11:45 amSNA-PWM
26h 00m2 stops
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Portland to California flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Portland, Maine to California?

What is the cheapest Portland 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 Portland to California.

The cheapest ticket to California from Portland found in the last 72 hours was to Santa Ana, at $820 round-trip. The most popular route is from Portland (PWM) to Santa Ana (SNA), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $820.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Portland 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 Portland to California is January, when tickets cost $306 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and March, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $518 and $483 respectively.

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

The average price of all round-trip flights from Portland 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 Saturday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to Portland, you should consider flying back on a Tuesday, and avoid Sundays for better deals.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Portland 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 Portland 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 Portland to California, you should book around 5 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 17 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonNovember
High seasonDecember
Cheapest flight$72
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 11% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 3% increase in price.
Flight from Portland to Los Angeles

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Portland 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 Portland 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 Portland 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 Portland 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 Portland 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 $385 on average. Morning departures are around 5% 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 $498.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Portland to California

 
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4252 reviews
7.0Food
8.6Crew
7.6Entertainment
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
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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.

Boarded the plane in Portland and sat on the tarmac for four hours before being given clearance to take off. Apparently a "scratch" was detected on the preflight inspection. This delay resulted in me missing my connection in Baltimore. I therefore had to stay overnight and then catch an early flight this morning, which resulted in my missing a mandatory class. I would like a refund / voucher to cover the cost of the missed flight. And additional voucher for the time spent on the plane in Portland would also be appreciated.

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

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.

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.

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.

Boarded plane and then delayed 1.5 hours while on the plane

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

There were mutliple delays. There was inconsistent, delayed, and poor communication regarding the delays.

Spend hours delayed with no food, water anything sitting on the aieplane with no ability to eat or use the restroom. My entire experience was the absolute worst. I will never fly jet Blue again.

It would have been nice if they had offered more than one set of snacks

Seats were not too comfortable; it was impossible to locate the underseat power outlet.

You get what you pay for with JetBlue. Every little thing costs more, you are nickel and dimed until the end. Entertainment doesn’t function. Flight attendants do the bare minimum.

The check in and boarding process was a bit of a cluster. Two people at the counter to check in, three random lines that nobody knew which was for what, and people kept getting shuffled from one line to another for no apparent reason because then they’d get shuffled back and end up getting out further back in the line than they were originally. I only had to hand my already checked bag over and it took 45 minutes. I was never assigned a seat so when I tried to board I was pulled out of line again while someone had to try to manually assign me a seat. During the flight I got up to go to the bathroom, and there was an attendant in the aisle offering pillows etc and it was a 30 min wait unbuckled standing by the bathrooms because she said I couldn’t go past her. First and last time flying jet blue to be honest.

Communication since no reason or explanation was given for 3 hrs delay

Flight was delayed several 3 hours - no reason was given and no communication what so ever.

No overhead baggage room even though I was seated in row 2. Consequently had to check in my carry on bag. Baggage carousel was jammed. Took 45 min to get my bag.

Excellent. Although they used to greet me as a mosaic member and provide a free drink, early boarding helps me to keep coming back to JetBlue.

Amazing food, great staff, with one noticable detail missing ...but no seat entertainment in any of aircraft ...I am not a fan

Boarding gate in Honolulu was staffed with a great clerk with a soothing voice despite the flight delay of over an hour. Flight attendants in the plane were all grumpy, not pleasant looking bunch. Their sour attitude showed throughout the flight. Inly able to get a select few movies started. Most of the movie links in the “free entertainment” did not work.

This was a horrible experience. For a first class experience, my chair was held together by 3M tape - and I have a photo. The crew weren’t very attentive, somewhat dismissive and forgot my drink and snack, the chair reclined about 3 inches on a 6-hour cross country flight. I was also not informed that there was no lounge available in Newark airport because of renovations, so all around this was one of the worst experiences and I would actively avoid both American and Alaska Air going forward.

Boarding was very efficient. Everyone got on board and we got on our way very quickly. It was frustrating that the entertainment app was not functioning properly. I was not able to activate some of the movies offered. The crew on this flight appears to be pretty grumpy. They had no smile on their faces. I felt like they were doing us a favor for being there.

Loved the staff, boarding and drink options! Wish the comfort of the seat could have been better nevertheless

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.

The plane was probably full boarding was easy. We were able to check our carry-on luggage for free. It was a return flight through Philly to LA. Never saw a stewardess do a demonstration of emergency Procedures. I think my flight was pretty full

Long 5 hour and 45 min flight and only one drink service and cookie snack

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.

Flight boarded from Gate 39 at OGG, the farthest gate in the terminal. There were no Hawaiian themed amenities for the flight. The first class service was mediocre at best; I received not special welcome or recognition as an executive platinum member of American Advantage program. The flight attendants were more concerned with their cell phones than saying "thank you" to the passengers as we disembarked. Fortunately, the flight arrived at LAX a few minutes early.

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