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C$ 171 Find Cheap Flights from Vancouver to Sacramento

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Cheap Flights from Vancouver to Sacramento (YVR-SMF)

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

Tue, 1 Jul - Wed, 9 Jul
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7:45 a.m. - 9:24 a.m.YVR-SMF
25h 39m2 stops
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12:01 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.SMF-YVR
26h 29m2 stops
C$ 306
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Wed, 20 Aug - Wed, 27 Aug
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9:45 a.m. - 7:20 p.m.YVR-SMF
9h 35m1 stop
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6:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.SMF-YVR
9h 45m1 stop
C$ 319
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Wed, 20 Aug - Wed, 27 Aug
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1:10 p.m. - 3:19 p.m.YVR-SMF
2h 09mdirect
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9:00 a.m. - 11:04 a.m.SMF-YVR
2h 04mdirect
C$ 368Air Canada
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Fri, 29 Aug - Sat, 6 Sep
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7:45 p.m. - 9:54 p.m.YVR-SMF
2h 09mdirect
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4:05 p.m. - 6:09 p.m.SMF-YVR
2h 04mdirect
C$ 398Air Canada
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Tue, 14 Oct - Tue, 21 Oct
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1:17 p.m. - 7:19 p.m.YVR-SMF
6h 02m1 stop
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6:20 a.m. - 12:48 p.m.SMF-YVR
6h 28m1 stop
C$ 402Alaska Airlines
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Fri, 11 Jul - Fri, 18 Jul
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7:00 a.m. - 1:46 p.m.YVR-SMF
6h 46m1 stop
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10:30 a.m. - 11:22 p.m.SMF-YVR
12h 52m1 stop
C$ 405United Airlines
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Wed, 9 Jul - Tue, 15 Jul
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6:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.YVR-SMF
4h 10m1 stop
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11:10 a.m. - 6:59 p.m.SMF-YVR
7h 49m1 stop
C$ 406Delta
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Wed, 9 Jul - Wed, 9 Jul
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6:00 a.m. - 12:02 p.m.YVR-SMF
6h 02m1 stop
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2:56 p.m. - 11:58 p.m.SMF-YVR
9h 02m2 stops
C$ 407Alaska Airlines
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Fri, 4 Jul - Mon, 7 Jul
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5:30 p.m. - 9:44 a.m.YVR-SMF
16h 14m1 stop
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6:34 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.SMF-YVR
15h 56m1 stop
C$ 451United Airlines
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Tue, 8 Jul - Sat, 12 Jul
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6:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.YVR-SMF
4h 10m1 stop
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5:20 p.m. - 12:04 a.m.SMF-YVR
6h 44m1 stop
C$ 492Delta
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Expert advice for your flight from Vancouver to Sacramento

 
Snippets provided in this section are AI-generated based on a summarisation of KAYAK-commissioned articles. The articles are presented as-is, for general informational purposes only, and may not be up-to-date. The opinions contained in the articles are original to the author and reflect their authentic experience, which may vary significantly from the experience of others.
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Air Canada

Air Canada offers priority check-in for higher fare classes and elite status members.


Preferred Economy seats offer up to 10 cm extra legroom for a fee or with elite status.

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United's Economy Plus seats provide up to 15 cm more legroom than standard economy seats.


United offers free messaging on most flights, with additional Wi-Fi options available for purchase.

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KAYAK's insights & trends for Vancouver to Sacramento flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Vancouver 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 Vancouver to Sacramento?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Vancouver Intl Airport to Sacramento clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

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

What is the cheapest month to fly from Vancouver 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 Vancouver 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 Vancouver Intl Airport to Sacramento is May, where tickets cost C$ 536 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are November and December, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is C$ 785 and C$ 656 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Vancouver 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.

No, with an average price for the route of C$ 578, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Vancouver 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 Vancouver 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 Vancouver Intl Airport to Sacramento, you should book around 3 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 26 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
High seasonOctober
Cheapest flightC$ 171
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 1% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 3% lower on average.
Flight from Vancouver to Sacramento

When to book flights from Vancouver to Sacramento

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Vancouver 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 Vancouver to Sacramento flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Vancouver Intl Airport to Sacramento?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Vancouver Intl Airport to Sacramento was C$ 126 for a one-way ticket and C$ 225 for a round-trip.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Vancouver to Sacramento?

    On your way to Sacramento, you’ll fly out from Vancouver Intl. You’ll be landing at Sacramento Intl.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from Vancouver to Sacramento?

    Air Canada, and ANA offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the Vancouver to Sacramento flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Vancouver to Sacramento?

    The Canadair (Bombardier) Regional Jet 900 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Vancouver to Sacramento flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Vancouver to Sacramento?

    Star Alliance is the only airline alliance operating flights between Vancouver and Sacramento.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Vancouver to Sacramento?

    There are direct flights from Vancouver to Sacramento on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Vancouver to Sacramento, Alaska Airlines or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Vancouver to Sacramento are Alaska Airlines and Delta. With an average price for the route of C$ 508 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 C$ 524 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Vancouver 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 Vancouver to Sacramento.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Sacramento from Vancouver is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Vancouver 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 Vancouver with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Vancouver 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 Vancouver 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 Vancouver Intl Airport to Sacramento

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for C$ 317 or less one-way and C$ 583 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Vancouver to Sacramento?

Find which airlines fly direct from Vancouver Intl Airport to Sacramento Intl Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Vancouver Intl to Sacramento Intl

Monday

ANA,Air Canada,Lufthansa, +1 more

ANA,Air Canada, +2 more

Tuesday

ANA,Air Canada,Lufthansa, +1 more

ANA,Air Canada, +2 more

Wednesday

ANA,Air Canada,Lufthansa, +1 more

ANA,Air Canada, +2 more

Thursday

ANA,Air Canada,Lufthansa, +1 more

ANA,Air Canada, +2 more

Friday

ANA,Air Canada,Lufthansa, +1 more

ANA,Air Canada, +2 more

Saturday

ANA,Air Canada,Lufthansa, +1 more

ANA,Air Canada, +2 more

Sunday

ANA,Air Canada,Lufthansa, +1 more

ANA,Air Canada, +2 more

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Direct returns

Sacramento Intl to Vancouver Intl

Monday

ANA,Air Canada,United Airlines

ANA,Air Canada, +1 more

Tuesday

ANA,Air Canada,United Airlines

ANA,Air Canada, +1 more

Wednesday

ANA,Air Canada,United Airlines

ANA,Air Canada, +1 more

Thursday

ANA,Air Canada,United Airlines

ANA,Air Canada, +1 more

Friday

ANA,Air Canada,United Airlines

ANA,Air Canada, +1 more

Saturday

ANA,Air Canada,United Airlines

ANA,Air Canada, +1 more

Sunday

ANA,Air Canada,United Airlines

ANA,Air Canada, +1 more

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Top 5 airlines serving from Vancouver to Sacramento

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Vancouver 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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8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 10000 reviews
7.1Entertainment
7.1Food
8.5Crew
8.1Boarding
7.8Comfort
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Both flights were delayed going to our destination and leaving, and communication about the delays was not great by the airlines, now the crews were phenomenal and great to be around!!

6.0 GoodAnna, Jun 2025SEA - BUR
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Both flights were delayed going to our destination and leaving, and communication about the delays was not great by the airlines, now the crews were phenomenal and great to be around!!

Delayed. It's not our first flight with them either, it's actually our 3rd and all 3 were delayed by hours each time. It was a myriad of delays. On one flight we boarded after being delayed for a little over an hr, only to be told we were going to sit in the plane for another hour before departing. Once landed, we waited another 40ish min to get to our gate. On another flight, flight was delayed just under 3 hrs but atleast we got to wait it out at the airport terminal. Its just a bad experience overall flying with Alaska Airlines.

Flight was delayed for weather, then delayed for mechanical, then just cancelled. Once mechanical problems started I wish you had just started offering rebooking options (at the same airport). I felt my trip was not a priority for you. I called you, I asked for a better option (than changing airports), then I had to literally run around the airport making it happen. Do better.

I would've liked to have the seat tablets like before to view movies, with long travels not everyone carries tablets to view movies. And phones are not worth it because screens to small.

Flight crew was great! Kind, fast with service. It would be nice if airlines went back to servicing “free” meals, we pay enough for the tickets to include a meal and frankly the price of airport food is insane these days.

Horrible! No blanket or pillow available! We had bulkhead seats but the seats were worn out and no cushion old. No meal or even a sandwich for our 5 hour flight just a little bag of pretzels. Crabby attendant female with long brown hair. We will not book Alaska Airlines again

On time, smooth take off and landing, efficient boarding. Gate staff excellent, stewardess grumpy, but civil enough.

No WiFi available. It was too late to order food also. Guy next to me was huge (not fat) so had his shoulder & thigh next to me the whole way. Plane was delayed leaving PDX due to 8 other planes waiting. Not my best Alaska airlines flight.

I do wish the the actual airplane I flew on was bigger. But, I made it work.

It is very bad they do not give you money back

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.

I love the free WiFi!! Crew was nice. Bathroom was decent. First time flying delta in a long time and I enjoyed it. Will definitely look into booking with Delta more but I think Delta is a little more expensive than the other airlines.

Seats are much much more comfortable than United, which is what I usually fly

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.

Delta cancelled my flight less than 24 hours before departure and provided no alternative options. Left me to fend for myself basically. Scrambled to book flight on another airline and paid a fortune to do so last minute.. Can’t wait to see how Delta deals with my refund.

Only one side of the heafphone jack work. Crew was friendly and helpful.

Efficient, calm when things were delayed and kept us regularly informed of what was happening.

Boarding was mayhem. Late boarding by 15 minutes because of lack of staff (missing 1 flight attendant. We had to wait for an arrival of another plane before we could board). Flight was a little rough, but cannot blame on airlines.

Great experience…left a bit behind schedule but made up fir that in the air and landed 10 minutes early 😁

Airbus plane, nice and polite staff, entertainment even as it was a short flight.

United out of SFO is having issues with catering so none of our meals were loaded on the plane and no offer of compensation for our tickets purchased was offered.

Its good expeince but in enternteiment please be like you tube the music i like or movie

I needed to make changes to my flights. When I called customer service, they assisted me with care professionalism.

A bit rush for transit. Food and entertainment are not available

Wonderful and fast TSA checkpoint. The line was fast and our gate was close by

The gate was too far away for the connecting flight

The seats are totally uncomfortable making the flight less than pleasant. The cookies & pretzels were terrible!!!

Terrible decision to take a night flight. Not enough time to sleep and premium seat has no foot rest ao couldn’t get comfortable!

Late departure, so I missed connection in Detroit. But Delta gave me a great hotel & breakfast. Just sorry I could not get anything from my checked baggage.

Was on a Swoop plane. No wifi and no Westjet connect

My husband required a wheelchair to get to the airplane and the service he received was exemplary. Thank you.

Internet on both flights was sketchy. Thus in flight entertainment was non- existent on MN - Balrimote leg.

WestJet was able to re-book us to the next available flight at no charge when air traffic controller staffing shortage delayed our inbound flight

I am a tall woman and could not move my legs enough to reach down under the seat in front of me to retrieve anything I put down there. I sat in both aisle and window seats and felt extremely cramped. In the aisle seat, if the stewardess was heavy, it was impossible to pass, and she would knock my arm shoulder and thigh every time she went by. If I can avoid it, I will not be flying this airline again.

It took 30 minutes to check in with the Westjet rep. They didn’t have enough seats and she needed to make a call… I am always “randomly” selected to be checked at security. Their “randomly “ selection system may need some updating. They treat people like criminals. It is not appropriate behavior.

Very good over all , would have been nice to have entertainment on the flight

Good flight, friendly crew and overall - good service on United Airlines.

flight landed late almost 1.00hr and we 4 passengers missed our connected flight to indianapolis, we need to get the hotel and taxi for the next day flight to home in indianapolis, cost us $ 300 more

From the kind young lady (w/Vancouver air security) who expedited our check-in to U.S. Customs to the Air Canada gate crew who gave us pre-boarding, the flight attendants who actually offered a strong hand to help me board once I had surrendered my rolling walker at the door, they are all reflections of the thoughtful, genuinely helpful Canadians we have grown to appreciate. Water and other beverages were offered throughout the flight to make sure we weren't dehydrated and the cookie was great. (Husband bought the fruit & crackers snack,) I was delighted to see three movies that I would not have otherwise seen and appreciate that AC left the last film viewable until its conclusion although the flight had actually landed. Last, mahalo to the kind strong gentleman who not offered his hand to help me debark the plane, but gave me an AC pin that I'll truly treasure.

There is not enough space between two chairs and raws.

Terrible. 3 missed flights and 24 hours delayed with lost bag and promised $100 compensation from United and absolutely nothing from them…

It was a lovely flight. Very attentive crew, comfortable seats, good food and entertainment. Highly recommended. Only difficulty was with their app.

Boarding was challenging as we had to use the stairs from the tarmac. Stairs are okay but a roller bag makes it challenging.

Once again our Air Canada flight was delayed! I'm hopeful competition arrives with other airlines soon and maybe they will make a better effort to be on time!

The only issues I have are the seats are very small and so is the overhead storage. You should mention that while booking flights. I had plenty of knee room but I am wider than my seat, and I am not fat at all. The Mitsubishi 900 models need to be upgraded to western size people. I do not know how a 300 pound woman fit into those seats. I had to continuously lean away from the aisle to keep people and flight crew from bumping into my shoulder. 3 hour flight so no entertainment or food, just snacks and a drink, which was no big deal. The buttery/garlic pretzels were pretty tasty.

Because I am quite tall a bit more leg room would have been more comfortable. Out of three seats I had the middle one, unfortunately.

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