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Cheap Flights from Tucson to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 5 days
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Los Angeles
1h 30mNonstop
from $168per person
Santa Ana
1h 40mNonstop
from $173per person
Long Beach
3h 15m2 stops
from $173per person
Reno
3h 30m2 stops
from $197per person
San Diego
1h 20mNonstop
from $209per person
Oakland
3h 30m2 stops
from $215per person
San Jose
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San Francisco
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Tucson to California flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Tucson 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 Tucson to California?

Flight prices are below average for this route right now.

Flights to California from Tucson usually cost between $194 and $330 in October.
The lowest price found in the past 5 days was $168 on Southwest (Oct 20-Oct 21).

What is the cheapest Tucson to California flight route?

The cheapest ticket to California from Tucson found in the last 5 days was to Los Angeles, at $157 round-trip. The most popular route is from Tucson (TUS) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $157.

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 $365 on average. Morning departures are around 9% 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 $593.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Tucson to California?

No, with an average price for the route of $299, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

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

The cheapest month for flights from Tucson to California is April, when tickets cost $304 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and July, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $390 and $370 respectively.

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

If you are looking for a flight deal from Tucson to California, look for departures on Thursdays and avoid leaving on a Sunday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from California, Wednesday is the cheapest day to fly and Sunday is the most expensive.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Tucson to California?

To get a below average price on the flight from Tucson to California, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 48% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 5 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low season

January

Cheapest flight

$77
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 9% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 6% lower on average.
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Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Tucson to the following destinations at these prices or less: Las Vegas $210 one-way - $287 round-trip; Los Angeles $158 one-way - $246 round-trip; San Diego $162 one-way - $307 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Tucson to California

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Tucson 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.
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4188 reviews
8.6Crew
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.5Entertainment
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Flight left on time and was early landing. Seats not comfortable and not enough space…

4.0 OkayLeo, Aug 2026
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Flight left on time and was early landing. Seats not comfortable and not enough space…

Mediocre. Boarding is now unpleasant. The employees, once friendly and nice, are now regularly speaking sternly to passengers, badgering them to do things right so they can take off on time and gate check bags because they don't have enough overhead bin space. The pretzel snack was crushed flat and broken into even smaller pieces, which happens frequently lately. Drink service was suspended before they reached my row.

First time traveling on Southwest since bag fees were implemented. Usual good service. Just more expensive now.

The open seating makes passengers boarding ahead of you think they also have the right to the empty middle seat. Trumper next to me refused to move her laptop bag from my leg area. I did not make a fuss since it was a short flight.

The cabin was very cold with the air conditioning on at a very high level. I used my phone app that displays room temperature and it registered 67 degrees.

The flight itself was good. Delays were the problem. Original flight was scheduled for 8:10 pm. Got notifications all day -- actual time is 8:40; then 8:25; then 8:35; then 8:45. Then once I get through security, it's actually 9:35.

Multiple delays, poor communication of information and a 4 hour delay with multiple gate changes ...

Flight was delayed for 1 hour. Otherwise it was a fairly normal Southwest experience

The flight attendant engaged with people and was funny. That’s the part that changes the experience to excellent

Took a little longer than normal, but the process is clear and easy to understand.

I lost a bag in the process of getting home and I’m a little stressed about it

It was a 3 plus hour flight. By hour 2 my butt was really sore! Loved having wi-fi for the whole trip!

Tucson AS767 flight yesterday from Tucson to SeaTac international Flight left Tucson around 7:44 am My name is Tanya Blendheim and I had a horrible experience yesterday morning at Alaska Airlines desk leaving from Tucson AZ. The agent was extremely rude and questioned everything about my trip. First she said (in a less than pleasant tone) you know your flight boards in 8 minutes? And we stop checking luggage 15 minutes before boarding. I acknowledged the first statement, but said that I didn't know about the check bag policy. (Another passenger, a man, was right behind me and he was denied checking his bag, which made him have to go back to his car to leave liquids behind) I also needed wheelchair assistance for my friend. I ended getting the wheelchair myself. The agent also said I wasn't checked in, which I was. One person in our group was no longer flying. She also said I had to pay $40 to check my bag and that my bag was 6 pounds over. The thing is, everything she said to me was said in a sassy tone and that was not professional or necessary. There are ways of informing customers of what is happening, without being condescending or rude.

On time. .breakfast was especially good. First class service was special

Plane destination at the Gates were mixed up at Spokane airport. Text from website didn't match rithet

Both flights were delayed due to an incident at SEA. The problem really rests with inadequate customer & plane facilities for Skywest at SEA. You feel like you are in a cattle enclosure. And planes were sitting on taxiways waiting for parking so every plane was late. SEA appears to be over capacity. It is not a fun passenger experience waiting. But crews and flights were all fine. Alaska needs to step up.

My as.com flight was too short to care (Tucson to phoenix) or comment.

The flight went smoothly, but I wore a down coat the entire time, the plane was frigid, the lead attendant seemed to be experiencing hot flashes lol, so no sympathy from her. Now, the PDX airport was another thing. It was a 12 minute walk from the gate to the baggage area, and I walk faster than most people. Seriously 12 minutes!

Could have re-booked me at check in knowing that I was going to miss my interline connection

They overbooked the flight. I checked in the day before. Got to the gate and they wouldn’t let me on. No seat.

I don’t like mushrooms and that’s all they had with pasta

DL486 could not get to the gate due to jet bridge malfunction. We moved gates. The connecting flight of LAX to MCO was not communicated with. Even though we were in the same terminal, DL482 left without about 10 of us, including a mother and her 3 children. I got to the gate at 7:34 am which is past the 7:20 am last call for a 7:35 am departure. Had they waited 5 minutes, all of us would have made it on board.

Delta has joint the nickel and diming airlines. The experience is getting worst by the day. 1,000,000 miles for a trip to Asia in Business Class where I got the same thing for just under 90,000 miles through an Asian airline. Where is Richard Anderson? Please come back!

Very bad multiple confusion and miscommunication which i ended up missing my flight.

The experience was bad. Flight was delayed to handle maintenance (understandable) but still there was some dew forming and dropping as droplets on few seats. Internet at best was allowing some browsing but at a snail pace.

Both of my flights to and from JFK experienced significant delays. Most notably, my first flight was delayed by six hours due to crew members being affected by delays on a previous flight. While I understand that disruptions can occur, Delta’s staffing and operational planning should include sufficient contingency measures to handle situations like this rather than placing the full burden of those delays on customers. Additionally, the $12 meal voucher offered as compensation was inadequate, particularly given the high cost of food and beverages at the airport. Considering the length of the delay and the substantial inconvenience caused, I believe more meaningful compensation would have been appropriate.

Comfortable seats. Nice service online. Short flight, so not a lot of time to enjoy.

The flight was done by SkyWest only WIFI no entertainment center are available on the CRJ

Delta is always late. Ruined our first day of a short vacation. Timing is important. We pay to stay on an itinerary

Only not having an assigned seat was an issue. Rest was great

Even though the incoming flight was delayed by 20 minutes they managed to get us to SFO 15 minutes early.

Boarding, time to take off, in flight offerings, and staff were all great. I recommend using UA for this short flight.

First class ticket gets you no seat back entertainment? I have to bring my own laptop to see a movie? And most of their movies have ADS? No thank you. Worse: Tiny snacks only on a 2 hr flight?

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

Awful, rude staff. Their abrasive comments are unnecessary. Most seek a frictionless experience and will cooperate if you ask. Additional childish bullying of customers is not acceptable or tolerated. We had the same problem with our departure flight. We will never fly United again.

No cooked food. Crew was not friendly and not that helpful

United airline kept delaying our flight back to Phoenix for 8 hours before they cancelled it! If they know that we are not flying out for whatever the reason is, why did they keep lying to us for hours. We could find another flight earlier or even find a hotel with a shuttle. But cancellation at about midnight was not fun. We stayed in the airport all night till the following morning when we bought an Alaska tickets to go back to Phoenix. Total of 14 hours in the airport.

My experience is based on one crew member. I had found my seat and sat down but there was a gentleman to claimed to the flight attendant I was in his seat. She then came to me and curtly said, "I need your ticket!" No hi, no excuse me may I see your boarding pass? NOTHING! I was taken aback by her attitude and she repeated herself, "your ticket?!?!" I calmly responded with ok, here you go. Only to discover the gentleman was looking at the wrong boarding pass. She gave me back my ticket with no apology. She then was curt with another man who was putting his coat in the overhead bin, already helped by another flight attendant who said it was fine. She realizes it's ok and then asks him if he drinks. The look on the man's face was priceless. She said she was going to comp him drinks. He gets offered a comp drink for a coat as well as an apology, and I got no apology.

Tired of being nickel and dimed for every little thing, especially carry-on luggage.

If there is an hour delay, and only one announcement is made regarding why, “a dirty plane” and “we are waiting for the Captain to board”and the screen keeps stating “on time” , and 100 people risk missing connections- who are then told to rent cars, run fast, or get a hotel room… well, that’s poorly managed by a team with no real training. Communicate more and better.

I believe my father had a good flight. What was not good, was the associate who helped us during Step 2 of check-in. After getting his boarding passes and bag tags, we proceeded to Step 2 where we were met with Carol. This was around 3:15-20pm at Phoenix Sky Harbor. She weighed my father’s checked bag which was 2lbs over, she recommended removing a pair of jeans to correct this. My father asked/joked if “she could just let him go” and she fairly rudely responded something along the lines of, “I don’t own the airline so no I can’t do that”. From this point on I just want to assume she was having a bad day. I spent my life raised in a business and front-facing customer service so I understand previous clients can make you feel irritated. How she continued to act leads me to believe she was really careless about her job or racially biased/straight-up racist. After we moved the 2lbs to his other bag, she told us she believed he would need to claim his bag at his connecting flight in Hong Kong, before it could go to his final destination, Malaysia. This thoroughly confused us as we are fairly frequent international travelers and 95% of the time the bag is sent to its final destination without this requirement. Last time we traveled to Malaysia was less than a month ago, so again we’re fairly confused. Multiple times she used a fairly aggressive tone of “I know what YOU THINK, this is what I believe”. The multiple “YOU THINK” as if we didn’t understand what she was saying was rude and insulting, and her tone came along with a insincere smile, hence the feeling of she was racially biased. Despite the fact that she might have been having a bad day previously, it is AA’s airline’s duty to train their employee about international bag protocol, as clearly AA is a major partner of internationally traveling airlines. Carol made the experience overall unenjoyable sending my father off and made us both question AA’s training of their employees.

Once again the staff of American Airlines is kind, helpful, efficient, and professional.

No food. I paid over $1.000 for my ticket for nuts and espresso beans.

I was able to check into my flight through the app and online but had issues getting my boarding pass once I arrived to the airport.

Like: flights are on time, good boarding process Can improve: planes are old, improve entertainment and make space more comfortable

Amazing I love American. I’ll never fly anyone else if I can help it.

Everything was good The connects, with no blame to crew. Or pilots. I understand they are short staffed. Everything went well for me. I'll be using you guys again in May if not sooner.

A couple ladies from the crew were so rude and nasty. Thought they were mad at having to be there especially if you asked a question. This will make me think twice next time if I book a flight with you.

Very friendly and efficient and smooth boarding. We were even way early arriving at my destination. Thank you.

This flight was late and did not meet the connecting flight.

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