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$127 Find Cheap Flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento

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Cheapest round-trip
$289
Overall average: $416
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Wed 11/12Wed 11/19
IAD - SMF • Non-stop
Cheapest one-way
$127
Typical prices: $185-$247
Hawaiian Airlines
Wed 2/25
IAD - SMF • 1 stop
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Cheap Flights from Dulles Intl to Sacramento (IAD-SMF)

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

Wed, Nov 12 - Wed, Nov 19
United Airlines Logo
7:39 pm - 10:35 pmIAD-SMF
5h 56mnonstop
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8:00 am - 3:59 pmSMF-IAD
4h 59mnonstop
$289United Airlines
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Sat, Dec 13 - Thu, Dec 25
Alaska Airlines Logo
5:37 pm - 10:59 pmIAD-SMF
8h 22m1 stop
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6:00 am - 6:09 pmSMF-IAD
9h 09m1 stop
$293Alaska Airlines
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Thu, Dec 11 - Sun, Dec 14
American Airlines Logo
2:06 pm - 12:34 amIAD-SMF
13h 28m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
7:29 pm - 10:20 amSMF-IAD
11h 51m2 stops
$294American Airlines
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Sun, Dec 14 - Tue, Jan 6
United Airlines Logo
7:00 pm - 9:57 pmIAD-SMF
5h 57mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 5:35 pmSMF-IAD
7h 35m1 stop
$295United Airlines
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Sun, Dec 14 - Wed, Dec 24
Alaska Airlines Logo
5:37 pm - 10:59 pmIAD-SMF
8h 22m1 stop
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 5:21 pmSMF-IAD
7h 21m1 stop
$296Alaska Airlines
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Tue, Dec 16 - Tue, Dec 16
American Airlines Logo
2:16 pm - 8:38 pmIAD-SMF
9h 22m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
10:27 pm - 10:20 amSMF-IAD
8h 53m1 stop
$303American Airlines
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Thu, Nov 6 - Thu, Nov 13
Delta Logo
7:35 am - 3:59 pmIAD-SMF
11h 24m1 stop
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1:25 pm - 12:54 amSMF-IAD
8h 29m1 stop
$309Delta
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Thu, Oct 30 - Mon, Nov 10
Southwest Logo
1:45 pm - 9:55 pmIAD-SMF
11h 10m2 stops
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8:25 am - 7:05 pmSMF-IAD
7h 40m1 stop
$314Southwest
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Thu, Nov 6 - Sun, Nov 9
Southwest Logo
5:05 am - 11:35 amIAD-SMF
9h 30m1 stop
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2:10 pm - 11:30 pmSMF-IAD
6h 20m1 stop
$323Southwest
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Fri, Oct 31 - Sat, Nov 8
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3:33 pm - 10:13 pmIAD-SMF
9h 40m1 stop
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6:00 am - 11:20 pmSMF-IAD
14h 20m2 stops
$324Delta
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Dulles Intl to Sacramento flights

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

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Washington Dulles Airport, you’ll find the best rates on Thursdays and the most expensive ones on Mondays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento, 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 Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento is February, where tickets cost $319 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $595 and $529 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento?

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.

No, with an average price for the route of $411, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento, 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 Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 26% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 21 weeks before departure.

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Low seasonSeptember
Cheapest flight$127
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 12% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 36% increase in price.
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When to book flights from Dulles Intl to Sacramento

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Dulles Intl to Sacramento based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento was $127 for a one-way ticket and $289 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Washington Dulles Airport and Sacramento?

    A passport is not required to fly from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    When flying out of Washington Dulles Airport you will be using Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl. You will be landing at Sacramento, also known as Sacramento Intl.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    Hawaiian Airlines, and Alaska Airlines offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    The Boeing 737 MAX 9 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Washington Dulles Airport and Sacramento, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    There are nonstop flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento, Alaska Airlines or Southwest?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento are Alaska Airlines and Southwest. With an average price for the route of $438 and an overall rating of 8.0, Alaska Airlines is the most popular choice. Southwest is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $438 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    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 Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Sacramento from Washington Dulles Airport 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 Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    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 Sacramento with an airline and back to Washington Dulles Airport with another airline. Booking your flights between Washington Dulles Airport and SMF 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 Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

    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 Sacramento from Washington Dulles Airport 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 Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Sacramento

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $258 or less one-way and $347 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl to Sacramento Intl.
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Sacramento Intl to Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Dulles Intl to Sacramento

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento. 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 Dulles Intl to Sacramento? 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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7.1Food
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7.8Comfort
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Boarding process was poorly handled by the gate crew and the onboard crew. No effort was made to provide equal treatment to passengers with overhead bin space. Crew seemed disengaged and unfriendly.

4.0 OkaySteve, Sep 2025DCA - SFO
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Boarding process was poorly handled by the gate crew and the onboard crew. No effort was made to provide equal treatment to passengers with overhead bin space. Crew seemed disengaged and unfriendly.

Awesome. Great flight. Super nice people and I like the extra space

On time, WiFi worked, reasonable legroom, helpful staff. Unfortunately there was no water for handwashing in the rear lavatory.

It was fine—the seats are not very comfortable and the aisles are very narrow. Nothing different from other airlines

The Boeing 737 plane is old with narrow seats and tiny lavatories. The flight was delayed for over 2 hours. The flight attendants were discourteous.

I am always uncomfortable about the boarding process. I think every airlines has their own procedures for boarding but all of their procedures are inconvenient because it takes too much time to board. If you board people from back seat to front, I think you can reduce the time to boarding.

Only offered water, no snacks provided, and it was cold on the plane, everyone was wearing sweatshirt or jacket in June. I asked for blanket, but crew said they didnt have anything and would turn the heat up, that didn't happen, so for 6 hours I remained cold.

One of the stewardess, Tre, went above and beyond to ensure my comfort!

On time, smooth take off and landing, efficient boarding. Gate staff excellent, stewardess grumpy, but civil enough.

It was too cold for the first quarter of the flight.

Connecting flight is on time and boarding was a breeze!

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.

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.

Gate agent rushed to fill hot jetway with crowd so it took over 12 minutes to go from gate to plane. Just like a discount airline Pooly prepared cabin and third time that claim of rough air prevented any cabin service. Friends on a Southwest flight at similar time had service.

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

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.

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

Great service on board. Boarding a bit slow due to process. Food was pretty average.

Very small cramped plane for an international flight. Everything else was good, but it was maybe the smallest comfort-wise I've ever been on for longer than 3-4 hours and the trip was 7.5

Flight was delayed 3 hours. No food and drink vouchers was provided. They offered a mini pretzel bag and water .

Staff was rude. Didn’t give water for 2 hours. Worst service

Was on time until within 1 hour of flight-how does that happen? Staff very friendly.

I liked the choice of lemon ginger tea. I think stewardesses can be more considerate of older people needs.

We were given vouchers we couldn’t use with a 5.5 hour delay

I fly UAL 7-8 times per year. This flight was not up to snuff because it boarded very late "due to unexpected delays in restocking the plane" and yet Flight Aware showed the plane had landed some 10 hours earlier--so I think they could have planned accordingly. The FA's were nice but harried. The video system had to be rebooted 3-4 times. The food service was rather abrupt; they forgot my row and when I asked for my meal, they brought it with some impatience. Overall, the flight was fine, but the little details made it feel somewhat mundane and hurried.

I didn’t get on plane. Passport being processed by consulate with visa application. Tried to cancel through underpricer after purchasing cacelling for any reason. No dice, they are thieves.

When I booked it on Kayak it aaid that I wasn't allowed hamd luggage. I called United Airlines and it took them 6 minutes to figure out if I was allowed free hand luggage. Surely something that simple they should be able to tell me instantly.

The flight crew was rude. We were in first class and no one even offered water until an hour after we were in the air. Horrible experience

Great. Quick and quiet and east. The breakfast choices were a welcome surprise!

The stewardess hit me with the food kart twice on the head and didn't say I'm sorry once. The same stewardess gave me a warm Apple Juice with No ice. The Flight was delayed for Departure 6 times, starting from 2:36pm, finally taking off 7:50pm. I was late picking up my child from the sitter by 3 hours.

It took way too long to diagnose and solve the problem of a broken crew member cabin seat. Though compensation for the volunteer who left the flight was very kind.

We fly American Airlines quite a bit. And we always fly business class when traveling internationally. We were a bit disappointed with the comfort of this particular plane as well as the entertainment options.

Did not get the seat I selected and paid for.

My flight was delayed for several hours. Sitting at gate 16 for several hours, I got a text from Kayak the gate changed to 9 before it was announced. Very bad communication at each gate from American Airlines employees. I received 10 notifications of delay from Kayak. My vacation started off horrible! I will write to American Airlines corporate office also.

The AA staff person who checked our bags was curt and almost rude. The FA also seemed unhappy doing her job. Overall it was like riding the school bus back in grade school.

Delayed flight that lead to a missed connection and a 5-hour trip became a 12-hour flight 🙄

There is no room, no gluten free options, or any free internet/entertainment. You have to bring your own tablet or smartphone because there are no screens.

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