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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, Oct 22 - Tue, Oct 28
Alaska Airlines Logo
6:25 am - 2:03 pmIAD-SMF
10h 38m1 stop
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7:00 am - 5:13 pmSMF-IAD
7h 13m1 stop
$269Alaska Airlines
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Sat, Oct 4 - Sat, Oct 11
Delta Logo
7:35 am - 4:08 pmIAD-SMF
11h 33m1 stop
Delta Logo
1:23 pm - 12:40 amSMF-IAD
8h 17m1 stop
$279Delta
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Tue, Sep 23 - Sat, Sep 27
Delta Logo
3:31 pm - 11:16 pmIAD-SMF
10h 45m2 stops
Delta Logo
4:50 pm - 6:01 amSMF-IAD
10h 11m1 stop
$284Delta
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Tue, Sep 16 - Tue, Sep 23
Delta Logo
6:00 am - 12:55 pmIAD-SMF
9h 55m2 stops
Delta Logo
10:04 am - 11:38 pmSMF-IAD
10h 34m2 stops
$289Delta
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Fri, Nov 14 - Tue, Nov 18
Alaska Airlines Logo
5:40 pm - 10:53 pmIAD-SMF
8h 13m1 stop
Alaska Airlines Logo
10:31 am - 6:23 amSMF-IAD
16h 52m2 stops
$291Alaska Airlines
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Sat, Jan 10 - Sun, Jan 18
United Airlines Logo
5:10 pm - 7:52 pmIAD-SMF
5h 42mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 5:13 pmSMF-IAD
7h 13m1 stop
$295United Airlines
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Fri, Nov 7 - Tue, Nov 11
United Airlines Logo
4:10 pm - 9:41 pmIAD-SMF
8h 31m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
8:00 am - 3:59 pmSMF-IAD
4h 59mnonstop
$299United Airlines
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Fri, Nov 14 - Tue, Nov 18
Southwest Logo
5:05 am - 9:35 amIAD-SMF
7h 30m1 stop
Southwest Logo
12:40 pm - 10:10 pmSMF-IAD
6h 30m1 stop
$303Southwest
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Fri, Nov 14 - Tue, Nov 18
Southwest Logo
7:50 pm - 12:05 amIAD-SMF
7h 15m1 stop
Southwest Logo
8:25 am - 10:10 pmSMF-IAD
10h 45m2 stops
$308Southwest
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Thu, Sep 11 - Sat, Sep 13
American Airlines Logo
9:16 am - 6:11 pmIAD-SMF
11h 55m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
10:02 pm - 8:46 amSMF-IAD
7h 44m1 stop
$314American Airlines
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Expert advice for your flight from Dulles Intl to Sacramento

 
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For easy highway access, SMF is conveniently located off Highway 5 and 80, making it a great base for exploring California.

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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 Mondays 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 $343 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $677 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.

Yes, flying with a layover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 1 stop layover the cheapest option at $1,056 on average.

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 27% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 21 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$127
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 22% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 54% increase in price.
Flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Sacramento

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 $269 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?

    Star Alliance is the only airline alliance operating flights between Washington Dulles Airport and Sacramento.

  • 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 Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento are Alaska Airlines and Delta. With an average price for the route of $438 and an overall rating of 8.0, Alaska Airlines is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $373 and an overall rating of 7.9.

  • 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 $323 or less one-way and $389 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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Direct departures

Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl to Sacramento Intl

Monday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Tuesday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Wednesday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Thursday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Friday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Saturday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Sunday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

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Direct returns

Sacramento Intl to Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl

Monday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Tuesday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Wednesday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Thursday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Friday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Saturday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

Sunday

Brussels Airlines, United Airlines

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Reviews of the top 4 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.
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Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 10000 reviews
7.0Entertainment
8.1Boarding
7.1Food
7.8Comfort
8.5Crew
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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.

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Jul 2025IAD - SEA
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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.

I loved that we boarded orderly and quickly, that I had an opportunity to check my bag free at the gate, that there was plenty of seat/leg room, there was smooth takeoff and landing, the attendants were pleasant and helpful, and that we arrived on time!!

Despite boarding starting quite late, we actually got to LAX on time. Boarding was easy and orderly. We knew that no screen with entertainment choices would be included on this flight, and that's fine. It was the best price, and we brought all the types of entertainment we needed with us, and appreciated the USB charging ports. What stood out most, was the complimentary liquor. THAT made the biggest difference in our enjoyment of this flight.

Flight 351 SEA to BOI was terrible. We got to cruising altitude and I needed to use the restroom but the fasten seatbelt sign never came off. There was no turbulence and I'd felt the plane level off so I stood up to use the restroom about 15 minutes after we leveled off. The stewardess went over the intercom and said I needed to be seated because the captain hadn't turned off the fasten seatbelt sign....Which... Fair.... But not five minutes later she went and used the bathroom. Felt very unprofessional to leave a paying customer with a burning urethra for the entire flight and bark at them to sit down and still use the bathroom yourself. They never did turn off the seatbelt sign.

Crew was very good. Problem was not Alaska Airlines’ fault, there was a horrible, squealing, screaming kid near me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

They are still charging me after taking 466 and 833 for round trip from AR to to Bradley airport from 19 to 21. Then poor experience. Am hurt and I will say it on social media. Please stay away from this airline. I see in my bank account they are still taking 644. Am trying to stop it. I used to fly United airlines and I suggest that if you don't want extra charges and good service you go back there. American airlines delayed my flight again and I was late for my meeting, no recompensation but charging me over and over.

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.

They changed our Gate 5 times, and concourse twice. Changed our seats twice.

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.

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