$86 Find Cheap Flights from Wilmington to California

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Cheap Flights from Wilmington to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$235
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$309
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$303
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$432
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$349
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$317
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$235
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$309
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$303
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$432
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$349
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$317

Book Cheap Wilmington to California Plane Tickets

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

Mon, Oct 13 - Sat, Oct 18
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1:00 pm - 8:28 amILM-LAX
22h 28m1 stop
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6:56 am - 8:40 amLAX-ILM
22h 44m2 stops
$235Multiple Airlines
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Sun, Nov 9 - Sat, Nov 15
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9:00 am - 7:25 amILM-LAS
25h 25m2 stops
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11:47 pm - 12:25 pmLAS-ILM
9h 38m1 stop
$237Multiple Airlines
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Fri, Oct 31 - Sat, Nov 8
American Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 11:53 amILM-SNA
7h 53m1 stop
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10:43 am - 10:35 pmSNA-ILM
8h 52m1 stop
$250American Airlines
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Fri, Oct 31 - Sat, Nov 8
American Airlines Logo
12:14 pm - 7:37 pmILM-SNA
10h 23m1 stop
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10:43 am - 11:44 pmSNA-ILM
10h 01m2 stops
$255American Airlines
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Sat, Oct 11 - Mon, Oct 13
Delta Logo
4:30 pm - 11:14 pmILM-SAN
9h 44m1 stop
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10:30 pm - 9:31 amSAN-ILM
8h 01m1 stop
$303Delta
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Wed, Dec 10 - Sat, Jan 10
Delta Logo
6:01 pm - 12:01 amILM-SFO
9h 00m1 stop
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6:00 am - 3:34 pmSFO-ILM
6h 34m1 stop
$309Delta
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Sat, Oct 25 - Sat, Nov 1
United Airlines Logo
7:05 am - 2:27 pmILM-LAX
10h 22m1 stop
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12:30 pm - 11:50 pmLAX-ILM
8h 20m1 stop
$309United Airlines
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Thu, Nov 13 - Tue, Nov 18
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 5:57 pmILM-LAS
14h 57m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
11:35 am - 11:50 pmLAS-ILM
9h 15m1 stop
$314United Airlines
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Tue, Oct 14 - Tue, Oct 21
JetBlue Logo
1:30 pm - 1:41 amILM-LAX
15h 11m2 stops
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9:45 pm - 12:34 pmLAX-ILM
11h 49m1 stop
$342JetBlue
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Sat, Oct 11 - Tue, Oct 14
JetBlue Logo
1:30 pm - 10:45 pmILM-LAS
12h 15m1 stop
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9:57 pm - 12:34 pmLAS-ILM
11h 37m1 stop
$363JetBlue
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Wilmington to California flights

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

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Wilmington 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 Wilmington to California is July, when tickets cost $338 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and February, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $583 and $548 respectively.

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

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

When flying from Wilmington to California, you should consider leaving on a Tuesday and avoid Mondays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Wilmington, you’ll find the best rates on Wednesdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Wilmington 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 Wilmington 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 Wilmington to California, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 30% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 18 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$86
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 5% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 8% increase in price.
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FAQs - booking California flights

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Wilmington 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 Wilmington 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 Wilmington 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 Wilmington 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 Wilmington 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 $232 on average. Morning departures are around 17% 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 $528.

Reviews of the top airlines flying from Wilmington to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Wilmington 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.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Wilmington 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.
7.9
DeltaOverall score based on 7961 reviews
7.9Entertainment
8.2Boarding
7.9Comfort
7.3Food
8.5Crew
Airline reviews

Perfect flight both ways. On time, courteous staff, plane comfortable and cool. Best domestic flights I’ve had in awhile.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Sep 2025CLT - BOS
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Perfect flight both ways. On time, courteous staff, plane comfortable and cool. Best domestic flights I’ve had in awhile.

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

Flight was delayed, 30+ bags had to be gate checked. Crew were very friendly!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flight was delayed. Staff at the gate effectively and proactively communicated about the delay.

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.

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