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Best California Flight Deals from Dulles Intl

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$130
San Diego
San Diego1 stop$196
Sacramento
Sacramento1 stop$269
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$276
Palm Springs
Palm Springsnonstop$289
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$327
Monterey
Monterey1 stop$320
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo1 stop$382
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$349
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$365
Redding
Redding1 stop$569
Reno
Reno1 stop$233

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Low season

January

High season

July

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$65
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 17% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 7% increase in price.
Flight from Washington Dulles Airport to San Francisco

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-SANDec 2024
I chose it because it was non-stop🥳
RebeccaFlew 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

FAQs - booking California flights

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

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  • 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 from Washington Dulles Airport 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 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 from Washington Dulles Airport to California 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 $163 one-way - $351 round-trip
  • Book at least 2 weeks before departure in order to get a below-average price.
  • High season is considered to be January, November and December. The cheapest month to fly from Washington, D.C. is September.
  • Morning departure is around 16% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
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*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

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.
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4408 reviews
8.7Crew
7.1Food
7.6Entertainment
8.2Boarding
8.1Comfort
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Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Dec 2024AUS - OAK
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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.

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 hell hole of an airport. It is the new LaGuardia. Everything Cobbled together. Security gates closed. Terri directional signage

I will be flying again Southwest Airlines. Friendly crew, comfortable and affordable.

The plane arrived 25 minutes late, and the Wi-Fi was slower than it usually is.

Forget beverage, they didn't even have water for half the passangers?

Can not wait for seating change to reduce the amount of pre boards - it’s disheartening the abuse. And then then deplaning

Pretty standard flight. We left late, but arrived early. The wifi entertainment is always nice. The free snacks and beverages are simple, but appreciated. I'm tall and the seats are an issue. I can deal with a short flight, but any longer, I have to find another airline where I know beforehand I have extra legroom.

The crew was nice. Boarding sucked. Instead of loading from the back to the front people just sat wherever and you had to wait for them to move to get to a seat. And the flight was 25 minutes delayed.

I boarded last because of my boarding assignment and was given a middle seat at the back of the plane. I’m 6”1” so it was really tight. I wish I just had a seat assignment instead of a general boarding group. My bag was way at the front and my seat at the back. Was never offered a beverage and had no room to move.

The flight itself was okay, but there were 2 screaming kids in front of me my entire flight which made it just awful. The parent did zero to try and make the children settle down and flight attendants did nothing either. I understand it's hard to travel with children, but constantly yelling, screaming, or loud talking for 4 hours straight is just ridiculous.

There was an issue with water that led to us not having potable water onboard. They dumped the onboard water and we were two hours late taking off.

All good. Great food and entertainment when there isn’t any on a one hour flight

Boarding for Alaska Airlines is always chaotic with many people crowding the gates. Arriving in on Alaska in Los Angeles is always interesting since there is never a gate available. So the planes are often parked all the way out on the west side of the airport while waiting for the gate to be cleared of the departing plane. This flight was no exception.

Flight was delayed twice, I was forced to check my bag, and the only offered water or apple juice on the flight

I needed to board early and that was no problem. The snack was just ok. Alaska is an EXCELLENT airlines . . . luggage fast and easy.

It was an easy flight. However we did have a few delays, mainly due to weather

Alaska Airlines needs more bag tag kiosks and bag check-in stations in Seattle. A single entry point for the bag tag kiosks would be helpful. This alleviates lines forming at each individual kiosk, which causes traffic jams for people passing through.

The flight was delayed over two and a half hours thus causing me to miss my best friend’s funeral. All because the flight crew had to get more rest. That was the reason stated. I understand however very unfortunate. Glad everyone is well rested and resting in peace.

The flight from San Diego to San Jose gate 28A The two persons working there didn’t even turn on the display board. The display board saying to Sacramento. When I asked she was rude and showed the board . Then he realized And changed. Every one was confused because we are running late to catch that flight coming from IAD. Very irresponsible staff.

Inexpensive, got an exit row aisle aeat with no middle passenger, bought a great breakfast sandwich, flight comfortable & arrived ahead of schedule.

If I pay extra for "comfort+" I expect leg room where I can stretch my legs. I was seated with an attendant's seat blocking my feet. Knee space was fine but my feet had less room than the non-"comfort+" seats. Also, don't go cheap on food when you have flights of 3+ hours. It's insulting.

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.

The agents was very rude and they charged me $50 for a carry-on bag saying that it was too big and then I saw someone going on a plane with the same size bag as me

Liked nothing. As per previous segment it was delay delay delay.

For the most part united was a good experience, how ever when they came by with the snacks and water, they completely passed by my wife and I. As we were in separate rows. On a 5 hr flight we were not offered water

Fantastic crew. Flight was delayed at last minute but we were given updates every 20 minutes and the crew was so friendly and considerate. I miss the touch screens on the back of the seats, wish they would bring that back though.

Awful. Worst airline I have ever been on. Crew were among the rudest people I have ever dealt with. United staff members were rude and disrespectful. My flight was delayed, causing me to miss a connecting flight. I understand things happen, but when staff start lying about what actually happened, that is when I have an issue. Just be honest, really it isn’t that hard. I’m being very honest with this review and I don’t find this difficult what so ever. In fact, because of United Airlines, my Christmas holiday was off to a really rocky start. As someone who has traveled across the world, it has only been United that I have had a truly awful experience.

I completely missed my flight because the first leg was longer than planned. I had to sleep overnight in the airport because no accommodation was provided and then sent to Trinidad in the morning with an anticipated 7 hour layover before my flight to Georgetown which was now with Caribbean Airlines. I tried twice with customer service to see if they could put me on an earlier flight which had seats available but was told it wasn’t possible.

Boarding always seems a bit chaotic. Seat spacing could leave more for leg room.

First class felt like economy, seats were horrible, food was horrible, staff inattentive

EVen warmer in the plane it think it was 24+ degrees

The flying experience was great. The flight was on time with no boarding issues during a peak travel period. The short cut baggage drop and process was not smooth and efficient at Dulles.

Extraordinary service in business class, and very good breakfast and snacks. A really lovely flight.

I flew out of Reagan National. My flight was delayed, delayed, delayed, and then canceled ...THREE TIMES over TWO DAYS. Staff were seemingly not empowered to provide information on why the flights were screwed up. A real nightmare.

This flight didn’t happen because AA agents didn’t let us board the flight

I had two wonderful flights - very relaxing and got me there early!

Cancelled and rebooked twice in one day with a drop in seat class. Not good at all.

Plane was pretty clean, staff was friendly and helpful, flight left about on time arrived early. Took a long time to board and get off the plane - carry on items didn't have enough room so people had to move all around to find places.

First, to be fair, the flight was on time and the trip through the air was relatively smooth. But the flight was full, and they were checking carryons. As this process went on, the crew got increasingly rude and overbearing. During the drink service, a young girl (maybe 9) who had gotten up to use the lavatory got stuck behind the cart. At some point, she started feeling fearful and overwhelmed. Passengers noticed this and asked the crew to let her return to her seat. They refused. Then she started crying, and they still refused to move the cart forward to let her sit. The poor girl was trying to be brave and compose herself. The crew handled the situation terribly and with zero grace or decency. That episode, to me, encapsulates AA’s attitude toward its passengers. Disgraceful. The plane itself was cramped and miserable, as usual. There was zero inflight media or entertainment, other than the lane and borderline inappropriate jokes the steward made during the safety briefing. Then, of course, it took the better part of an hour for the checked bags to show up at the carousel. AA is no better than the el cheapo airlines these days and a far, far cry from its former self.

Customer service for American Airlines first class is at an all time low.

The service and food needs to improve to catch up with other international flights

Would have been good to have a meal since it was a 5.5 hour flight

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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.
5/13Tue
nonstopFrontier
5h 15mIAD-LAS
5/13Tue
1 stopFrontier
12h 47mLAS-IAD
$90
4/26Sat
1 stopFrontier
8h 32mIAD-LAX
5/5Mon
1 stopFrontier
7h 26mLAX-IAD
$128
4/16Wed
nonstopAlaska Airlines
5h 54mIAD-LAX
4/16Wed
1 stopAlaska Airlines
12h 36mLAX-IAD
$207
5/16Fri
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 51mIAD-LAX
5/20Tue
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 01mLAX-IAD
$228
3/15Sat
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 42mIAD-SAN
3/19Wed
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 40mSAN-IAD
$238
3/12Wed
nonstopAlaska Airlines
6h 01mIAD-SAN
3/18Tue
1 stopAlaska Airlines
17h 35mSAN-IAD
$247
3/15Sat
1 stopDelta
10h 00mIAD-LAX
3/18Tue
1 stopDelta
9h 28mLAX-IAD
$263
4/28Mon
1 stopDelta
7h 36mIAD-SMF
5/2Fri
1 stopDelta
10h 47mSMF-IAD
$277
4/2Wed
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
11h 57mIAD-SJC
4/8Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
9h 55mSJC-IAD
$287
3/18Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
10h 11mIAD-SFO
3/25Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
6h 55mSFO-IAD
$302

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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.
4/2Wed
1 stopFrontier
10h 39mIAD-SFO
$65
4/22Tue
1 stopFrontier
8h 32mIAD-LAX
$65
3/22Sat
nonstopAlaska Airlines
5h 49mIAD-SAN
$119
4/20Sun
1 stopUnited Airlines
7h 59mIAD-LAX
$124
4/29Tue
1 stopUnited Airlines
9h 01mIAD-SAN
$125
4/9Wed
nonstopAlaska Airlines
5h 49mIAD-SAN
$129
3/15Sat
1 stopDelta
8h 31mIAD-SMF
$139
3/15Sat
1 stopDelta
7h 59mIAD-SAN
$139
3/17Mon
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
11h 44mIAD-SFO
$174
5/13Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
9h 41mIAD-SNA
$174

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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.
2/24Mon
multi-stop
13h 12mIAD-LAS
2/27Thu
multi-stop
9h 35mLAS-IAD
$248
2/26Wed
multi-stop
8h 03mIAD-LAS
3/11Tue
multi-stop
14h 30mLAS-IAD
$320
2/26Wed
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 31mIAD-LAS
3/11Tue
nonstopUnited Airlines
4h 21mLAS-IAD
$410
2/26Wed
nonstopUnited Airlines
5h 31mIAD-LAS
3/10Mon
multi-stopUnited Airlines
7h 56mLAS-IAD
$420
2/26Wed
multi-stopDelta
8h 40mIAD-LAS
3/10Mon
multi-stopDelta
9h 00mLAS-IAD
$429
2/23Sun
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
17h 27mIAD-SMF
3/4Tue
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
22h 10mSMF-IAD
$450
2/25Tue
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
9h 13mIAD-LAS
4/30Wed
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
12h 49mLAS-IAD
$468
2/22Sat
multi-stopDelta
8h 29mIAD-LAS
3/24Mon
multi-stopDelta
9h 13mLAS-IAD
$469
2/26Wed
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 23mIAD-LAS
3/26Wed
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
6h 34mLAS-IAD
$504
2/23Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
8h 30mIAD-LAX
3/9Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
6h 55mLAX-IAD
$613

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