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Cheap Flights from Salt Lake City to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$101
San Francisco
San Franciscononstop$105
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$90
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$120
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$171
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$169
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$237
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$238
Arcata
Arcata2 stops$366
Redding
Redding1 stop$302
Reno
Reno1 stop$127
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$96
Los Angeles
Los Angelesnonstop$101
San Francisco
San Franciscononstop$105
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$90
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$120
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$171
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$169
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$237
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$238
Arcata
Arcata2 stops$366
Redding
Redding1 stop$302
Reno
Reno1 stop$127
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$96
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Salt Lake City to California flights

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

What is the cheapest Salt Lake City to California flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to California from Salt Lake City found in the last 72 hours was to Santa Ana, at $78 round-trip. The most popular route is from Salt Lake City (SLC) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $96.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Salt Lake City 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 $329 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Salt Lake City to California?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City to California is September, when tickets cost $136 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are November and June, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $214 and $199 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Salt Lake City to California?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Salt Lake City to California clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to California on a Thursday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Wednesday is the most expensive day to fly from Salt Lake City to California. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Friday and avoiding Sundays for the best deals.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City to California, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 34% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 7 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJune
Cheapest flight$38
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 3% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 0% lower on average.
Flight from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas

FAQs - booking California flights

  • Are there any airlines that allow my kids to fly alone from Salt Lake City to California?

    Delta Air Lines prioritizes the safety and well-being of young travelers with its Unaccompanied Minor (UM) program. Tailored to children aged 5 to 14 flying alone, the service ensures dedicated assistance throughout the journey. Trained staff oversees supervised boarding, in-flight support, and a secure handover at the destination. Regular updates provide parents or guardians with peace of mind.

  • What is a good choice for a sustainable airline on this trip?

    American Airlines is committed to sustainability, actively implementing initiatives to reduce its environmental impact. The airline invests in fuel-efficient aircraft, explores sustainable aviation fuels, and engages in carbon offset programs. American Airlines aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, demonstrating a dedication to environmental responsibility. By incorporating eco-friendly practices and embracing innovative technologies, the airline contributes to a more sustainable aviation industry, aligning its efforts with global environmental goals and fostering responsible corporate citizenship.

  • What are the benefits of joining the JetBlue loyalty program?

    Joining the JetBlue TrueBlue loyalty program offers a multitude of benefits. Members accrue points with every flight, gaining access to exclusive perks such as expedited security, complimentary seat upgrades, and early boarding. Points can be redeemed for free flights or seat upgrades, providing flexibility and value. JetBlue's loyalty program fosters customer loyalty by offering a range of rewards, ensuring a more personalized and enjoyable travel experience for frequent flyers.

  • What are some reasons to upgrade to business class on United Airlines for a trip to California?

    United Airlines Business Class, known as Polaris, offers an array of premium perks. Passengers enjoy spacious lie-flat seats, ensuring comfort during long-haul flights. Gourmet dining curated by top chefs enhances the culinary experience, complemented by a selection of fine wines and beverages. Access to exclusive Polaris lounges provides a tranquil pre-flight environment. With priority check-in, expedited security, and enhanced baggage allowances, United's Business Class ensures a luxurious and seamless travel experience, making it a preferred choice for discerning travelers.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City to California.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City 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 afternoon, when round-trip flights cost $149 on average. Morning departures are around 22% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $323.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Salt Lake City to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $57 one-way - $89 round-trip; Los Angeles $137 one-way - $150 round-trip; San Francisco $128 one-way - $185 round-trip
  • When traveling to California from Salt Lake City, you will find that Spirit Airlines, JetBlue, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines all offer direct flights between Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
  • If your destination in California is San Francisco, Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines offer direct flights between Salt Lake City International Airport and San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
  • Passengers who wish to travel from Salt Lake City to San Diego will find that there are direct flights from Salt Lake City International Airport to San Diego International Airport (SAN) aboard Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest Airlines.
  • Passengers who wish to travel from Salt Lake City to the beautiful and quaint coastal city of Santa Barbara will find a direct flight on Delta Air Lines from Salt Lake City International Airport to Santa Barbara Airport (SBA).
  • Salt Lake City International Airport is a major hub for Delta Air Lines. This means that any flight you choose on this carrier to California will most likely have plenty of alternatives in case of any issues or delays with your original flight.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Salt Lake City to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Salt Lake City 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.
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8.0
SouthwestOverall score based on 4246 reviews
7.5Entertainment
7.0Food
8.6Crew
8.0Comfort
8.1Boarding
Airline reviews

Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

10.0 ExcellentGordon, Jul 2025GEG - OAK
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Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

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.

For the first time in a long time we had a flawless experience with Southwest. Both flights were early and no mechanical errors at all. We were shocked and pleasantly surprised 😮.

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.

The flight attendants in SLC were rude. I arrived 40 minutes early to gate. Ticket said I needed check in for seat assignments and tried check in and attendants said they weren’t doing it. And proceeded to never call me to give me a ticket so when time to board I received the very last seat. Please relay to employees to do their job better..,

I was uncomfortably cold on the plane. Other than that it was uneventful and therefore as enjoyable as a plane ride can be.

Having to up charge for a seat assignment is not good. Delta can do better

Food was surprisingly good but the WiFi was not great

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.

The flight was comfortable with the exit row and great service

Plane was crowded and even when we hit altitude, the plane was hot, not enough air flow.

1. when we went to check in, our 2 first class seats had been CANCELED and the flight was sold out. This was done without our prior knowledge. It was all we could do to restore one first class seat for my wife and I flew economy. 2, Our flight home was scheduled to leave at 10:30 pm. Due to tsunami warnings, the roads were closed and our flight status was uncertain as to whether it would leave as scheduled. It was announced that it would now leave at 11:20 pm and the roads were now open since the tsunami had come and gone. We made a mad dash to the airport and checked in. Delays were announced at 12:30 pm, 1:30 am, 2:30 am and at 3:30 am it was canceled. Since this was a flight due to natural (tsunami) causes, there was no compensation. We were told to return at 1:00 pm the next day and our baggage would be kept on the plane since the same plane was going to leave at 1:00 pm. We had to return to our hotel for the rest of the night. The same plane did not leave at 1:00 pm and our baggage was gone! All in all, it was a miserable performance by UA. Information was hard to obtain and no one knew what was going on and what was going to happen. Hundreds of passengers slept on the floor, chairs, etc. No food and no water was made available to the passengers. It was a situation where UA could care less what was going on. As a one million mile flyer, I had not experienced anything like this before and it was hugely disappointing!

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 😁

Late departure by 1:45min. No explanation why. During boarding inconsistent policing of their baggage rules. Before takeoff and lamdimg strange obsession with window shade and armrest positions. Don't know why they care. 15 min tarmac delay on arrival, they blamed airport congestion but we were the o lh flight waiting, it was clear it was due to poor staff planning (only one ground crew to receive airplanes and multiple arrivals) Got there but was rrally lame the whole trip.

Boarding was a breeze, however, two of the flights that I boarded with Spirit did not have Wi-Fi available.

Very good. Nothing more or less than expected. No complaints.

My experience with the spirit as a first time it was OK, but the seats need a little cushion, the problem I had the most impacted me was when checking in the scales were so off and wrong. It will tell that you would have more weight, which was not true. The scale was say that it had Thirty Eight Pounds, when get in the labels when we send the luggage into the band. It says that it was overweight. I really really dislike that because the scales are not accurate. If I use Spirit and I have that issue again. That will be my last time flying with the spirit, even though I like so much to service the planes, and everything else

hahaha we are delayed for one hour plus.. but thx we arrived San Diego safe

Worst airline ever! The guy weighing my bag had his foot on the metal plate and when I called him out on it, I got this stupid little smirk. La is a scam and so is Spirit Airlines. All the flight attendants looked like they hated our flight just as much as we did.

Unclear pricing; ended up being charged an extra $52 just to get onboard

Spirit is awful. Too expensive for what you get. Stop nickel and diming.

would be great to get basic water, soda at least and stop charging for carry ons

Your crew is a representation of your Standards and Values. The crew from Seattle to LAX, was very disappointing. The crew was more interested in hanging out at the lobby area. Talking, laughing loudly and eating all the snacks. They did not do regular rounds to see if customers needed anything. This was a huge disappointment. I will no longer be flying with your airlines moving forward.

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

Disaster. They lied every step of the way. We ended up being delayed due to crew and then allegedly abandoned the flight because of a curfew at LGA. No rebooking to LGA at any reasonable time. No hotel. No meal vouchers. Had to sleep in the airport and fly to Newark instead. Will never fly Frontier again.

What I expected, nickeled and dined and a frontier flight attendant loudly complained about her job and lack of communication as she headed to the gate on her cell phone. Not professional.

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.

After boarding and un-boarding twice over 6+hours, the flight was canceled.

Severe turbulence. Captain never came on to reassure passengers after things settled down.

My first flight was delayed 5 hours. The 2nd flight was canceled til the next day and the never even tried to compensate for it. Worse I was delayed again on the flight the rebooked me on.

Boarding in Orlando was not good. Giant mob at the gate, should have been lines.

Decent clean onboard experience. Okay discount airline experience. Unfortunately, any customer service interactions are difficult and unhelpful. There is no service. Also, a premium seat only gets you premium boarding if you line up first. Once they start general boarding you must go to the back of the line. Not very premium

baggage clamed had to wait over a hour and half for all people on my flight it was terrible

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