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Find cheap flights from Seattle to California from $34

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Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$166
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$137
San Diego
San Diego2 stops$168
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$133
Palm Springs
Palm Springs1 stop$176
Fresno
Fresno1 stop$200
San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispononstop$217
Bakersfield
Bakersfield1 stop$609
Arcata
Arcata1 stop$337
Redding
Reddingnonstop$197
Reno
Reno1 stop$85

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FAQs - booking California flights

  • Is there a lounge at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)?

    Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is a hub for many airlines that fly out to other states and countries. The airport has many lounges where you can quench your thirst with complimentary beverages and snacks offered at The Club lounge located at Concourse A next to Gate A12, open every day from 5 am to 12:00 am.

  • How do I get to city center from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)?

    If you want to get to the city center from Los Angeles International Airport, you can pick a taxi at Lax-it near Terminal 1, inside parking lot 3 if you arrive at Terminal B and Terminal 3 and Terminal 7 for travelers arriving through Terminal 7 and 8. It will take you approximately 21 minutes to cover a distance of 29.2 km.

  • Is there a nursing room at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)?

    Traveling can be stressful, so families with young ones have designated locations where parents can peacefully and privately breastfeed and take care of their kids at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. These locations have ample space, a seating area, a lockable door, an electrical charging port, and a flat surface. The nursing suite is located at Concourse N adjacent to Alaska Lounge on the Mezzanine level. There are also nursing rooms at Concourse, Concourse D, and International Arrivals Facility.

  • Are there a business center at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)?

    There are several business service centers for business travelers, such as Regus Business Centers Express, situated on Concourse C at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. This center gives travelers access to workspaces and various business services to stay in touch while out of the office.

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

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to California from Seattle 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 Seattle 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 Seattle with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Seattle 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 Seattle 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 Seattle to the following destinations at these prices or less: Los Angeles $133 one-way - $256 round-trip; San Francisco $123 one-way - $217 round-trip
  • Morning departure is around 6% more expensive than an evening flight, on average*.
  • Children may experience a meltdown at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) because screening appears to them to be chaotic and stress-filled. Keeping kids occupied and cared for when waiting for a flight is essential. Stop by the kid-friendly Playground between Central Terminal and Gate A, opposite the Delta Sky Lounge.
  • Travelers can get reasonable rates for both short-term and long-term parking at the SEA airport's parking lot, which has over 12,100 spaces. You have the option of parking in the Terminal lot, the General parking lot, ADA-accessible parking lots, over-height parking, and motorcycle parking, parking for electric vehicles, or extended day parking.
  • If your final destination is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), you are guaranteed to have a long list of car rental options. Reserving a car at the airport is a sure way of moving around the city conveniently and reliably. To locate car rental shuttle services at LAX, go to the lower-level arrivals Terminal near the baggage claim area.
  • The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport can be reached by traveling a distance of 24 km from the city centre. Taxis are quick and easy transportation that may get you to the city's heart quickly and conveniently. Taxis transport you to the airport in around half the time it takes a line bus to get there, which is approximately 20 minutes.
  • Direct flights are available from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, and Alaska Airlines for passengers who wish to travel to Los Angeles International Airport. You can book a nonstop flight to Los Angeles with any of these airlines if you have a seat reserved in advance.
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Top 5 airlines serving from Seattle to California

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Seattle 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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EVA AirOverall score based on 1555 reviews
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The type of the food requested (Asian vegetarian) was not properly met with. They have very limited snack items that may compensate for the main meals.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Apr 2024TPE - JFK
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The type of the food requested (Asian vegetarian) was not properly met with. They have very limited snack items that may compensate for the main meals.

The quality of the food is pretty good. Thank you, EVA Air.

Pleasant, comfortable, and entertaining. All told, ZERO issues with it. And sadly, so far the flight was WAY more comfortable than the hellhole that is "Lambug Beach Resort" at Badian Beach!

Pleasant crew. Very long flight, a bit uncomfortable at times being seated, but not too bad.

No ice for the drinks. Only gave a half a cup of your beverage. Not enough water. I got very dehydrated.

Eva is one of the top airlines in Asia... but often are over priced. Finally found a reasonable rate.

My original flight was rescheduled & EVA did a good job rescheduling my flight & connecting flight.

Polite hard working crew. No complaints really. Meals were not to my liking.

Everything was fantastic! The crew really went above and beyond to make it a great flight. I felt cared for with EVA.

t and I Flight crew did excellent job taking care of us and feeding us and staying professional. The boarding was delayed by an hour and then extra security measures were taken. No real explanation except for they said it was more of a maintenance dey

Had a broken tray in business class. Crew just shrugged it off.

Everything was great except for the seat. The backrest would not stay in the upright position.

public website still broken for years randomly blocking browsers with privacy options active after loading a page maybe once. check-in on laptop was almost impossible but eventually randomly worked. had to print pass at airport since couldn't get back in to load digital pass on mobile firefox or chrome. red eye flight so smooth onboarding, plenty of room to spread out, easy offboarding. onboard wifi instructions mention vpn can cause problems connecting but fails to also mention private dns. no printed or built in menu list, seems weird to require personal device to point at qr code link for menu which does not even allow direct ordering. people with health condition risk related dietary restrictions trying to avoid for example cholesterol and sugar are left guessing what they can order either way without nutritional info highlights (cranberry juice was minute maid cocktail with as much suger as typical can of soda). tap to pay wasn't working and always seems sketchy to manually enter card info. good movie variety, so limited tv was okay.

Bag drop off was slow and annoying. Only 2 agents at the entire delta desk, and no one directing traffic for what line to be in, many confused people slowed down the process. Boarding was fine. Seats in Delta comfort plus were fine. Snacks were great! Definitely a bonus. The entertainment system was awful — old, slow, not responsive, and completely unable to play games due to some kind of error. But on the other hand, thank you to Delta for the free WiFi. That made it better.

Flight diverted in SD. Later take off in Seattle by 1.3hrs

Mi primera conexión se retrasó por lo cual perdí mi segunda conexión la cual salió adelantada

Crew was not friendly when I went to request a seat change.

There were choices for the snacks. Good choices and tasty lunch and breakfast as well.

The flight crew was amazing. I’m very tall and they moved me to an exit row unsolicited!!! Amazing service.

The boarding process was terrible especially with an indirect flight Chicago to Seattle to San Diego was terrible talking about we overbooked a flight idk if I’d take this airline ever again we got off our flight from Chicago to Seattle and we traveled for business and they told us our connecting flight was over booked and their was no seats asking people to take a delayed next flight and they don’t tell anyone coughing to wear masks seats 30A-B were terrible during the flight no one wants to sit next to people coughing all around I don’t want to be sick traveling for work or get sick anytime it’s very upsetting the staff doesn’t take this stuff serious to tell them to wear masks when they see people coughing and sneezing

The WiFi didn’t work and the seats are too close together. Very uncomfortable.

So so. Terrible aircraft choice for that leg of the flight.

delay several times and wait extra long to board. no entertainment service because there are problem for some rows. always encounter some delays for the last flight of the day.

On time every leg of the journey and exceptional staff at counter, gate, and on board. I haven’t travelled in US for a long time and was genuinely surprised how pleasant this was.

This was a Lufthansa flight. Disappointing main meal. Very rough over Canada and arrival at FRA. IFE was almost unusable.

Too many fees (but that seems to apply to all airlines nowadays)

For a 22 minute flight all you expect is for it to be safe and comfortable

I was not able to buy food in the flight. They refer to include your Credit card in the APP, and if you are not from USA (i have a credit card form Canada) it is not possible

Over two hours wait to get wheelchair assistance from arrival to the departure gate for LA was unreasonable even though there appreared to be heavy demand.

Airline did not explain reasons why flight was delayed two hours. Explanations were badly needed and rarely provided. Problem seemed to clearly be the airline’s fault and not the fault of the weather or airport.

Those seats were way too narrow. I had the middle seat, one person was a very skinny person and we still couldn’t avoid touching each other anytime one of us moved. The other person was larger and we were basically sitting in each others lap the entire flight. There was zero entertainment. The flight was long enough to justify tvs, but no. Gotta sit there in your infant seat and twiddle your thumbs.

Fight crew was not very attentive and the bastions were gross!

Our flight was great we left Kona earlier and got into LAX almost an 1hour earlier as well. LAX AA is in repair so to get out and found our bus to get pick up was a bit confusing.

Plane was good but was delayed. probably not AA fault but caused a 1 hour delay. Seating was cramped.

5 hour flight - full flight - not enough room to use my computer - slightly delayed - Admirals club was excellent quality food, drink made up for flight seating. No food offerred on flight, you ahd to prebook.

I had the exit seat with all the leg room I could ask for. Great!

I wish there were no credit card announcements. I paid hundreds of dollars, I don't need to pay again by sitting through advertisements.

We experience delays on departure and connecting flights resulting in 14 hour to our next departure. We were accommodated with a night's stay but was only provided a 12 dollar meals accommodation. The airlines rules state.at least 50 dollars. In any case, it can not make up for the whole day missed on our vacation in Sydney Australia.

I can say I will not be taking this airline again any time soon. Seat were uncomfortable and too tight. Lack of chair screen and little overhead space.

Plane felt so crowded and tightly packed. The chair itself was not comfortable.

Headphones for the movies have too much bass and can't be adjusted. Almost impossible to hear. Great movie selections but can't really watch them because you can't hear them. Also the system is very slow.

Lost my bag. My first ever flight with them that they forced me to gate check my bag on, due to them having a 30 year old plane with small carry on bins, and they lost my bag. Never again.

United force you to download their App to do the check-in.

Once again my complaint is how close the seats are together. Also, the bathrooms were not very clean by the second half of the flight.

Excellent in flight service, perhaps the best we've ever had. Business class feels tired and needs improvement to compete with other airlines. The food looked good but tasted terrible. Check in was quick, the flight arrived early and our luggage was on our flight with us.

I liked Seattle but nothing air Canada did there was any good at all neither was kayak as when I purchased my flights the price I purchased at was not what kayak charged to my card and there has been no responses to my emails ....

Terrible quality wifi and they charge a lot for it. They nickel and dime you for everything.

It took 5 hour to get a crew to D Ice the plan. We had to sit on the runway for 5 hrs. in Calgary. It snows most of the winter. No proactive plan. In addition, after 3 calls to customer service they couldn't figure out how to have my wife and myself sit together on her birthday weekend. Everybody kept passing the buck. No decision from customer service, luggage drop off or check in team. The experience was a complete mess! I don't think we'll ever fly on this airline again.

Of our SIX flights in my travel group, five were delayed, and all (except possibly one) were just company screwups. One traveler had her CARRY ON baggage put on another flight because Air Canada could not properly do "weight and Balance". Bags missing for a day. Another traveler never made it. Then, (humor here) the flagship airline of the socialist country has NOTHING FOR FREE on board. Expect to pay for pretzels, folks. How's that socialism working out for ya, aye? I might book air Canada in the future if I have a meeting that I REALLY want to MISS!

I don’t know if there were any snacks served on the 5 hour flight. I might have been napping when the attendants came around. But I usually wake up when they do.

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