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$63 Find Cheap Flights from Washington Dulles Airport to California

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Dulles Intl to California departing on 2/1. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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Best California Flight Deals

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours

Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$128
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$158
San Diego
San Diegononstop$255
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$178
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$216
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$168
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$361
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$336
Monterey
Monterey1 stop$342
Bakersfield
Bakersfield2 stops$338
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$449
Redding
Redding1 stop$396
Reno
Reno1 stop$322

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January

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July

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Flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Los Angeles

FAQs - booking California flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Washington Dulles Airport 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 Washington Dulles Airport to California.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to California 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 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 to California with an airline and back to Washington Dulles Airport with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Washington Dulles Airport 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 to California from Washington Dulles Airport up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to California

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Washington Dulles Airport to the following destinations at these prices or less: Los Angeles $208 one-way - $366 round-trip; San Francisco $248 one-way - $487 round-trip
  • Morning departure is around 9% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Flights from Dulles Intl to California: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Dulles Intl to California 
Verified travelerFlew with Alaska AirlinesIAD-SANSep 2024
Get something to eat in the airport, just in case there is no food onboard.
NoamFlew with Alaska AirlinesIAD-SFOAug 2024
Flying to the Ronald Reagan airport is closer and faster to D.C. than the Dulles airport.
Verified travelerFlew with Alaska AirlinesIAD-SFOJul 2024
I would recommend Alaska Airlines. The amenities and comfort was great.
BillFlew with Alaska AirlinesIAD-LAXJun 2024
At Dulles, you can spend 30 minutes getting to your AFTER clearing TSA

Top 5 airlines serving from Dulles Intl to California

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Washington, D.C. 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 Dulles Intl 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.
8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 8788 reviews
7.9Entertainment
8.2Boarding
8.5Crew
7.3Food
7.9Comfort
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Only one side of the heafphone jack work. Crew was friendly and helpful.

10.0 ExcellentMitchel, Oct 2024JFK - LAX
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Only one side of the heafphone jack work. Crew was friendly and helpful.

Great. Flight departed early and arrived early. Deplaning and baggage claim ww were quick.

They separated our seats and moved us to the back of the plane. Hundreds of dollars and thousands of miles used and this was my platinum member experience.

AC barely worked on a 50 minute flight. It was very warm the whole flight. Flight was very bumpy and hard landing.

Got on the plane and then needed to deboard the plane because they didn’t have any pilots?

The flight was canceled two hours before departure, it took over five hours to rebook us on another flight.

Rough day of travel all the way around. Wrong info given to us multiple times and mistakes in their booking making our trip 10 hours longer than planned. I’m bummed because I fly Delta all the time and love them. Mistakes happen. Just bummed that this was a rare trip our whole family was traveling together.

Meh. A late flight meant I missed my connections, and a 2pm LAX arrival turned into gettin in after midnight.

It was good until there was a 3 hour delay because there was not any pilots to fly the plane.

Had to change aircraft due to a faulty door. Surprisingly it only caused about an hour and a half of delay. Delta handled this situation as well as can be expected.

Do not overbook flights and kick out confirmed ticketed passengers :-(

Wasn’t allowed to continue with the purchased tickets because I hadn’t been able to go on the first scheduled leg.

Do I need to repeat my complaints about my lost carry on bag?

Noice cancelling headphones would be better since it’s a crowded plane And kids behaviors are unavoidable

More facilities to transport to the gates......felt too much walking distance

Just happy I flew Qatar Airways awesome no wonder they are #1 in the world right now! The food was just delicious, very courteous, professional crew.

It was good no problems made it on time for the next flight overseas!

It was a really long flight from Doha to Philadelphia and it was overall a good one. The one area that I would comment on is that there is a lot of single-use plastic and disposables in the meal service for American Airlines. It would be great to see more circular options in the meal service to reduce the amount of waste.

Suddenly Flight has been change by Qatar and there’s no information is there of us from Bom to Doha and counter person is behaving like Qatar owner next I will not buy Qatar and I will not suggest anyone to fly in Qatar

The flight was good but my neighbor had the vent open full power for the whole flight and because the air was blowing from the side instead of from the top and I got very cold and ended up with a sore throat.

My flight was cancelled with no warning! I had to find out right at the airport when I arrived from my previous flight!

Excellent service. Made United 's business class look like a cattle car

I have been flying Turkish Airlines for the last 5 years it’s always great service, on time , excellent food, only one thing wasn’t reliable is their on board WiFi most of the time it doesn’t work.

My checked bag did not get loaded on the aircraft in Istanbul. Other than that, the flight was smooth, on time and the crew was friendly, efficient, and professional.

You need to weight all bags together because we were 2 and we allowed 4 bags plus hand carry and personal items. We trying to saved bag like we put our stuff in 3 bags so we don’t have to carry more bags and airline also save space time less bags less work. We had only 1.6 kg over and we requested crew he said it’s airline policy that you need separate bag that’s ruined our mod and carry that suit in our hand in plastic bag he didn’t understand that we have less bags that make sense if we brought over luggage then it’s problem. I think if you guys change your policy and weight all together that will be good

Better than other airlines but still not at the top with other airlines that you pay the same price and services and customer service are much more well performed with care and attention to the customer. Still a long way to go. Some of the flight attendants are speaking English like they translate direct from Turkish. They need to improve the customer service for a global travel.

After boarding cabin was too hot AC didn’t work

Definitely not a fan of Turkish Airlines, their seats are very uncomfortable. Felt very cramped up. Food was very poor in quality too, very little to drink during service.

Great airline with excellent service! Only drawback was the meat served was overcooked on both flights.

Very happy with the service, comfort, and food on Turkish Airlines. Security and check in was great.

The plane was clean. The staff was excellent. The flight attendants were very good. Enjoyable flight. Overall. The seats in the back are too small but, will always be.

This was a 5 hour flight with no entertainment and with a snack being provided (pretzels and fruit bar), which are both high in carbs and sugar. Nuts would have been a better choice.

Never nice, United Express partners always do an amazing job.

Everything was perfect except the pad at the top of the seat back. It pushes my head forward in a very uncomfortable position and it is not removable.

Good plane, crew, and flight. Boarding was a bit chaotic. Bathrooms were unacceptable. United DESPERATELY needs a new terminal at IAD.

United Airlines changed my flight 5 hours before I arrived at the airport. This messed up my entire day that I arrived in Japan.

Being stick waiting for gate at ORD cause me to almost miss my connecting flight…being deaf United made no no effort to keep me updated as I couldn’t hear the PA

The Economy Plus rows weren’t as roomy as expected, and the meal service left a lot to be desired for.

United ground crew and pilots are friendly. The in-flight staff (flight attendants) are the worst in the world. Multiple trips, always unpleasant, combative, use implicit threats to not allow for a discussion on their decision. Authoritarian. This seems to stem from an internal corporate wide policy as I doubt that United is intentionally searching for people that are not fit for customer facing positions. I will not fly United again. Good luck fixing your business

The flight was mostly on time, smooth and deplaning was quick. Baggage was really quick at the claim. Comfort was so-so and I paid for economy plus. It was still too crowded and why was a family of 5 scattered all around the plane?

Check in process is terrible, only one counter opens to serve over hundred passengers, agents are incompetent and took too long to get passengers boarding passes. Supervisor is no help neither. On board entertainment 90% monitors were defective.

Check-in could have been a little early and I wished the airline would have serve some better real food rather than serving a very hard bread for a 8hrs flight.

Long delayed that cause missing my connection. Accommodation and food at the Casablanca airport was horrible

Educate your crew members they need to understand what their job is and customers service and be human.

Comfort and organisational prowess of the entire crew. Baggage handling can be better. No had all my luggages after 6days of the flight.

This was the worst experience ever. It was such chaos at boarding due to boarding zone and letting everyone with children and strollers go first. Once the plane door closed they didn’t let us know why we were not moving until after 30 mins of sitting on the plane. Then ANOTHER 2 hours passed with no other communication or update as to why we were still sitting on the plane. 2 and half hours of sitting on a plane! When I ask a flight attendant what was the delay he gave ALOT of attitude and said he don’t know what’s going on. This flight attendant was soooo rude to customers to the point one lady was telling him how rude he was. I also felt other flight attendants spoke to the people who spoke their language; I am an American so this was also upsetting. The food was horrible, I only ate the bread. We finally landed and we almost missed our connecting flight. We was able to run and make out next flight within 30 mins. Our flight from Casablanca to Marrakech was quick. BUT here is where I was really UPSET. They left everyone luggage who was on the flight in Casablanca. We went to baggage claim and they had Attitudes! How are you mad with us for losing our bags, I don’t get it. We had to wait for the next flight to come in with our bags. The baggage claim guy said they wouldn’t deliver our bags to our hotel because of past experiences; now we have to pay for another cab to come back! They had so much luggage outside of baggage claim I can see this was happening to a lot of people. They said they would email us once our bags arrived. He told us the next flights coming in (which I researched myself and he gave the wrong times!). We took a cab to our hotel to wait. I seen my bag was at RAK airport (because of my AirTag) 4 hours later but no email from baggage claim. I waited two more hours and still no email letting us know it arrive! We missed dinner plans! We went to airport and got our bags (security at RAK was rude to us and had us walking all around in order to get to baggage claim). I will NEVER fly with Royal Air Maroc ever in life, even if it means I can’t fly to other countries that I would love to visit since this ruined my friends birthday already. I PRAY our flight back home is wayyy better. This is no way to treat people. I fly frequently so I know how airlines should treat people and Royal does not!

On line check was unavailable even tho I was receiving emails to check in and select my seat. At the gate was told all seats were taken ahead of time and was pre assigned a bad seat. When could you check in the choose a seat ???? The ran out of all food choices in business class !!! I had nothing to eat. They told me to pre order a special meal. I don’t want a special meal I was a regular meal. Seats very uncomfortable for business class prices.

Babies, crying, movies and sound doesn’t working overpacked and delayed flight

Pretty good flights! If they can let y u s know regarding delays by announcing it in the PA system it would be a good business practice!

While I had a business class ticket I wasn’t given priority to boar. Again my luggage had priority tags and these bags didn’t come out till the end!! The food at the lounge was only two type of sandwiches and warm juices and soft drinks I thought I’m paying for good services but the least u can say it’s mediocre at best. I’m considering not to use TAM AGAIN.

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Recent round-trip flight deals

 
These are the cheapest round-trip flights from Washington, D.C. to California found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
1/28Tue
1 stopFrontier
11h 34mIAD-LAX
2/3Mon
1 stopFrontier
10h 12mLAX-IAD
$128
1/14Tue
1 stopFrontier
11h 05mIAD-LAX
1/28Tue
1 stopFrontier
10h 39mLAX-IAD
$138
12/10Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
10h 48mIAD-PSP
12/17Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
8h 34mPSP-IAD
$168
12/10Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
10h 18mIAD-PSP
12/17Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
8h 34mPSP-IAD
$173
11/25Mon
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 49mIAD-LAX
12/5Thu
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 47mLAX-IAD
$212
12/31Tue
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 53mIAD-LAX
1/9Thu
1 stopUnited Airlines
7h 45mLAX-IAD
$222
1/15Wed
1 stopDelta
8h 52mIAD-SJC
1/25Sat
1 stopDelta
7h 33mSJC-IAD
$276
12/10Tue
1 stopDelta
8h 21mIAD-SMF
12/15Sun
1 stopDelta
7h 22mSMF-IAD
$276
12/15Sun
1 stopSpirit Airlines
9h 50mIAD-SAN
12/19Thu
2 stopsSpirit Airlines
11h 03mSAN-IAD
$415
12/15Sun
nonstopSpirit Airlines
5h 29mIAD-SAN
12/19Thu
2 stopsSpirit Airlines
11h 03mSAN-IAD
$425

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from Washington, D.C. to California found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
2/1Sat
1 stopFrontier
8h 28mIAD-LAX
$63
2/5Wed
1 stopFrontier
10h 54mIAD-LAX
$64
2/3Mon
1 stopFrontier
9h 23mIAD-LAX
$69
1/18Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
7h 51mIAD-PSP
$84
2/1Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
7h 51mIAD-PSP
$89
12/24Tue
1 stopUnited Airlines
8h 04mIAD-SJC
$129
3/12Wed
1 stopUnited Airlines
9h 20mIAD-SAN
$134
1/8Wed
1 stopDelta
8h 07mIAD-SJC
$138
12/16Mon
1 stopDelta
8h 02mIAD-SMF
$138
12/7Sat
3 stopsAir Canada
17h 47mIAD-SFO
$402

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Last minute flights from Dulles Intl to California

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Washington, D.C. to California that are departing in the next 10 days.
11/18Mon
multi-stopFrontier
12h 08mIAD-LAS
12/4Wed
multi-stopFrontier
14h 16mLAS-IAD
$238
11/18Mon
multi-stopFrontier
10h 12mIAD-LAS
12/6Fri
multi-stopFrontier
7h 45mLAS-IAD
$258
11/17Sun
multi-stop
9h 08mIAD-LAS
11/20Wed
multi-stop
17h 22mLAS-IAD
$328
11/18Mon
multi-stop
10h 12mIAD-LAS
11/20Wed
multi-stop
17h 22mLAS-IAD
$333
11/19Tue
multi-stopDelta
9h 21mIAD-SMF
11/19Tue
multi-stopDelta
7h 16mSMF-IAD
$408
11/15Fri
multi-stopDelta
7h 45mIAD-SMF
11/28Thu
multi-stopDelta
7h 18mSMF-IAD
$423
11/19Tue
multi-stopUnited Airlines
13h 35mIAD-LAS
12/3Tue
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 23mLAS-IAD
$506
11/17Sun
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 19mIAD-LAS
12/18Wed
multi-stopUnited Airlines
6h 13mLAS-IAD
$524
11/18Mon
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 25mIAD-SAN
11/20Wed
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 06mSAN-IAD
$547
11/16Sat
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 43mIAD-RNO
11/23Sat
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
11h 52mRNO-IAD
$558

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