How Much Is a Flight to Las Vegas (2026 Data)

How much is a flight to Las Vegas? Two numbers answer it, and they measure different things. Tickets actually sold on the top domestic routes to and from Las Vegas averaged $256.78¹ one way in the first quarter of 2026, both directions combined. Round trips priced in commercial fare searches from US cities averaged $307² over the past 12 months.² The first is a one-way average of fares paid, the second a round-trip price travelers were shown, so one is not simply double the other.

The main price lever is where you start. A one-way ticket between San Diego and Las Vegas averaged $144.95¹ in early 2026; between Atlanta and Las Vegas it was $409.94¹, 2.83³ times as much. Below: fares by city, state, month, weekday and booking window, 30 years of route fares, how long the flight takes, the airlines that fly it, the taxes inside every ticket and how many people land in Las Vegas each year.

The average fare to Las Vegas in 2026

How much is a round-trip flight to Las Vegas?

Round trips to Las Vegas from US cities averaged $307² in commercial fare searches over the past 12 months. The figure covers every US departure city; no cabin mix or sample size is published, so treat it as a benchmark rather than a quote. A round trip at or under $194² sits in the cheapest quarter of fares seen, $113³ below the average.² Departure city matters even here: round trips from Los Angeles averaged $129², the lowest of the departure cities shown, and from Dallas $238².²

The official record counts tickets sold instead. On the top domestic city pairs that include Las Vegas, the passenger-weighted average one-way fare was $256.78¹ in the first quarter of 2026, over an average route of 1,183 miles¹ (1,904 km).¹ Because each one-way fare counts a round trip as two trips, doubling it gives a round-trip equivalent of about $513.56³. That is our assumption, not a published figure, and it is well above the search average: the official number averages every fare type actually paid, while the search number averages prices shown for the dates travelers looked at.

Fares have climbed slowly. The yearly average one-way fare rose from $114.11¹ in 1996 to $217.62¹ in 2025, 1.91³ times the 1996 level in current dollars, and 2025 stood $33.59³ above 2019.¹ The first quarter of 2026 came in $39.16³ above the 2025 yearly average, but one quarter is not a full year and the set of top routes changes from quarter to quarter.

A straight line through those 30 years (our calculation, not a forecast) reaches about $289³ one way by 2050 in current dollars. The pandemic took the average down to $161.70¹ in 2020, and fares were back above the 2019 level of $184.03¹ by 2022.¹

How much is a flight from LA to Las Vegas?

Los Angeles-Las Vegas is the busiest route, with 6,146¹ passengers a day on average in the first quarter of 2026, and one of the cheapest: $157.56¹ one way over 236¹ miles.¹ Southwest held 53.3%¹ of the route's passengers at an average $178.36¹, while Spirit, the lowest-fare airline on it, averaged $84.81¹.¹ The yearly fare roughly doubled in current dollars, from $74.06¹ in 1996 to $141.01¹ in 2025, 1.90³ times as much.¹ Fare-search round trips from Los Angeles averaged $129².²

The same straight-line method gives about $197³ one way on this route by 2050 (our calculation, not a forecast).

When to fly: month, weekday, hour and booking window

Average flight prices to Las Vegas by month

Each month's figure is the median round trip seen in fare searches over the past 12 months, with the top 0.1% of prices removed.² January is the cheapest month, at $254², and June the most expensive at $356², with July close behind at $355². June costs 40.2%³ more than January, $102³ per ticket. Fares drop back sharply in August, to $288².²

The day of the week moves the price less. Monday departures averaged $300² round trip over the past 12 months and Thursday $346², a gap of $46³.² These are averages, not medians.

Departure time matters about as much. Night flights averaged $285² round trip and morning flights $344², $59³ more; afternoon ($315²) and evening ($330²) fall between.²

How far ahead to book

Booking early pays, but only up to a point. Round trips booked 26 weeks ahead averaged about $398²; the price then slides to a low of about $269² five weeks before departure, $129³ less. After that it climbs again: about $322² two weeks out and $380² in the final week.² Booking in the five-week window typically costs about 24%² less than the average last-minute fare, and last-minute fares, booked within two weeks, run 14%² above the $307 average, about $349.98³.²

Delays by month

Over the past three months, 17%² of flights to Las Vegas arrived 15 minutes or more late, 1³ percentage point below the national rate of 18%².² By month, June has the worst delay rate at 23%², July the next worst at 21%² and February the best at 14%².² June and July are both the dearest months and among the latest-running.

Where you fly from changes the price

The first quarter of 2026 is the latest quarter of official city-pair fares. In it, 63¹ top US markets had routes to and from Las Vegas; California alone supplied 21.4%³ of their passengers and Texas 11.7%³.¹ The chart shows 19 of the busiest. The fares are one way, averaged over both directions, and winter-quarter prices.

Distance explains part of it. Routes under 500 miles averaged $182.67³ one way, routes of 2,000 miles or more $347.75³, 1.90³ times as much.¹ Per mile, the short hop costs more: Los Angeles works out to $0.67³ a mile, Boston to $0.14³.

How much is a flight from California to Las Vegas?

California is the cheapest big market.¹ One-way fares between the state's airports and Las Vegas averaged $175.44³ in the first quarter of 2026, weighted by passengers, about half of Florida's $322.70³.¹ The state's routes are short, and three of its markets are among the cheapest on the chart above.¹

How much is a flight from San Diego to Las Vegas?

San Diego-Las Vegas averaged $144.95¹ one way over 258¹ miles, the lowest of the 19 cities charted, with Southwest carrying 68.0%¹ of passengers.¹

How much is a flight from Fresno to Las Vegas?

Fresno-Las Vegas averaged $152.81¹ one way over 259¹ miles, on a route with about 387¹ passengers a day.¹

How much is a flight from Sacramento to Las Vegas?

Sacramento-Las Vegas averaged $200.13¹ one way over 397¹ miles, and Southwest carried 87.1%¹ of its passengers.¹ San Francisco, at $200.66¹ one way, is the second-busiest route after Los Angeles.¹ Grouped by state, the 15 states with the most passengers on these routes compare like this:

How much is a flight from Las Vegas to Texas?

Texas averaged $249.50³ one way, weighted by passengers across its markets, both directions. That average blends Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and the state's smaller markets.¹

How much is a flight from Dallas to Las Vegas?

Dallas/Fort Worth-Las Vegas averaged $255.95¹ one way over 1,067¹ miles, with 3,106¹ passengers a day. American is the largest airline on it, at 42.1%¹ of passengers, and averaged $337.02¹, while Frontier, the lowest-fare airline, averaged $133.92¹.¹

How much is a flight from Houston to Las Vegas?

Houston-Las Vegas averaged $255.62¹ one way, only $0.33³ less than Dallas, over 1,235¹ miles; United carried 46.3%¹ of its passengers.¹

Who flies a route matters as much as how long it is. Southwest was the largest airline on 36¹ of the 63¹ top Las Vegas markets in the first quarter of 2026, and where a low-fare airline holds a real share, its average fare sits far below the largest airline's.¹

How much is a flight from Phoenix to Las Vegas?

Phoenix-Las Vegas averaged $190.61¹ one way over just 276¹ miles, with 1,901¹ passengers a day.¹ Fare-search round trips from Phoenix averaged $166⁴.⁴

How much is a flight from Reno to Las Vegas?

The only in-state route in the data, Reno-Las Vegas, averaged $194.87¹ one way over 345¹ miles in the first quarter of 2026.¹

How much is a flight from Denver to Las Vegas?

Denver-Las Vegas averaged $193.52¹ one way over 628¹ miles. Southwest carried 36.6%¹ of the route's passengers and Frontier, the lowest-fare airline, averaged $122.41¹.¹

How much is a flight from Seattle to Las Vegas?

Seattle-Las Vegas averaged $198.75¹ one way over 867¹ miles; it is one of the few big routes led by Alaska, with 52.4%¹ of passengers.¹ Over 30 years, Seattle's yearly fare rose from $79.21¹ in 1996 to $181.70¹ in 2025, and Phoenix's from $74.36¹ to $169.79¹.¹

How much is a flight from Las Vegas to Florida?

Florida averaged $322.70³ one way across its markets, weighted by passengers, $73.20³ more than Texas.¹ Miami was the dearer of the two big Florida routes at $352.32¹, Orlando $270.07¹, a difference of $82.25³.¹

How much is a flight from Nashville to Las Vegas?

Nashville-Las Vegas averaged $307.65¹ one way over 1,587¹ miles.¹

How much is a flight from Detroit to Las Vegas?

Detroit-Las Vegas averaged $316.51¹ one way. Delta carried 57.7%¹ of passengers at $422.35¹, while Spirit averaged $131.89¹.¹

How much is a flight from Atlanta to Las Vegas?

Atlanta-Las Vegas averaged $409.94¹ one way over 1,747¹ miles, the highest of the 19 cities charted. Delta, the largest airline on the route with 56.2%¹ of passengers, averaged $562.88¹; Frontier averaged $168.37¹.¹ The yearly Atlanta fare more than doubled in current dollars, from $148.17¹ in 1996 to $319.53¹ in 2025.¹

How much is a flight from New York to Las Vegas?

New York-Las Vegas averaged $368.95¹ one way over 2,282¹ miles, with 4,232¹ passengers a day, the third-busiest route.¹

How much is a flight from Boston to Las Vegas?

Boston-Las Vegas averaged $339.64¹ one way over 2,381¹ miles, the longest of the 19 routes charted; JetBlue was both the largest and the lowest-fare airline on it.¹

Round-trip fares from every state

Commercial fare searches give a round-trip average from each state's main airport, which fills in the states the official route data leaves out. Across 48³ states, the average ranges from $129⁵ from Los Angeles to $603⁶ from Honolulu; the mean of the state averages is $355.48³ and the median $333³.^{5 6} Utah ($160⁷), Arizona ($166⁴) and Colorado ($210⁸) follow California; 14³ states average under $300 and 11³ reach $450 or more.⁷

How much is a flight from Las Vegas to Hawaii?

Round trips between Honolulu and Las Vegas average $603⁶, priced from the Honolulu end, the highest of any state and 4.67³ times the California average.⁶

The best month to fly depends on the airport. January is the cheapest month at 17³ of the 48 state airports, August at 8³, more than any other months.⁵ The lowest cheapest-month median of all is $104⁵ from Los Angeles (LAX) in January.⁵

How long the flight takes

The average flight time to Las Vegas

Across every domestic passenger flight into Las Vegas in 2025, weighted by passengers, a flight spent 148.5 minutes⁵²³ in the air, about 2 hours 28 minutes, and 173.3 minutes⁵²³ from gate to gate, about 2 hours 53 minutes.⁵² Time in the air runs from takeoff to landing and leaves out taxiing and waiting on the ground, which added 24.8³ minutes on average, 16.7%³ on top of the airborne time.

The average flight time from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is 43.8⁵²³ minutes in the air, but 71.9⁵²³ minutes gate to gate, about 1 hour 12 minutes: on the shortest routes, ground time is a large share of the trip.⁵² For the average flight time from Denver to Las Vegas, count on about 1 hour 30 minutes airborne and 1 hour 57 minutes gate to gate.⁵²

The average flight time from New York to Las Vegas is about 5 hours 3 minutes in the air (303.0⁵²³ minutes) and 5 hours 42 minutes gate to gate (341.6⁵²³ minutes). For the average flight time from Boston to Las Vegas, allow 321.5⁵²³ minutes airborne and 352.8⁵²³ minutes gate to gate, about 5 hours 53 minutes.⁵²

Most flights into Las Vegas are short. Of the 195,988³ passenger flights in 2025 with a reported gate-to-gate time, 124,777⁵² took up to three hours, 70,443⁵² three to six hours and only 768⁵² more than six.⁵² Another 28³ flights had no time reported, and one charter airline's 559⁵² flights in July 2025 are left out of every flight-time figure: its filed times for that month run up to about eight times its usual times on the same routes, a filing error.⁵² One low-cost airline's 1,048⁵² flights in March 2025 are left out of the time in the air only: their filed air times almost equal their gate-to-gate times, which are normal and stay in.⁵²

The airlines and cities that fill the planes

In 2025 airlines operated 196,575⁵² domestic passenger flights into Las Vegas, about 539³ a day, from 192⁵² US airports. They offered 32,079,987⁵² seats and carried 24,953,143⁵² passengers, a load factor of 77.8%³.⁵² A further 165⁵² flights arrived with no passengers aboard (positioning flights) and are not counted.⁵²

Which airline carries the most passengers?

Southwest carried 10,745,871⁵² of those passengers, 43.1%³, and 1,853,569³ more than Delta, Spirit, American and United combined (8,892,302³).⁵² Adding Frontier, the next five together (10,766,996³) edge past Southwest.

Where passengers come from

Los Angeles sent the most passengers, 1,211,648⁵² in 2025, followed by Chicago (1,141,240⁵²) and Denver (1,008,378⁵²).⁵² Los Angeles also had the most flights, 10,845⁵², while Atlanta sent 805,034⁵² passengers on only 4,879⁵² flights.⁵²

Passengers by month

Traffic is spread fairly evenly through the year. May was the busiest month of 2025, with 2,282,060⁵² domestic passengers flown in, and February the quietest at 1,821,656⁵², 460,404³ fewer.⁵² February is also the shortest month.

Taxes and fees inside the ticket

Part of every fare is fixed by law, and the advertised price already includes it. The federal domestic ticket tax is 7.5%⁵³ of the base fare,⁵³ and the flight segment tax is $5.30⁵⁴ per segment, one takeoff and landing, in 2026.⁵⁴ The September 11th security fee is $5.60⁵⁵ per one-way trip that starts at a US airport, so a domestic round trip pays it twice, $11.20⁵⁵, the round-trip cap.⁵⁵ Las Vegas collects a passenger facility charge of $4.50⁵⁶ per boarding.⁵⁶

Backing those charges out of the $307² average round trip, and assuming the departure airport also charges $4.50, leaves a base fare of about $256.93³ on a nonstop. The ticket tax on it is $19.27³, so about $50.07³, or 16.3%³, of the price is taxes and fees. A one-stop trip pays the segment tax and the facility charge twice in each direction: of the same $307, about $68.30³, 22.2%³, is taxes and fees.

How many people fly to Las Vegas

Las Vegas's airport handled 58.4 million⁵⁷ arriving and departing air passengers in 2024,⁵⁷ the highest yearly total since at least 1970, and 13.4%³ above the 2019 level of 51.5 million⁵⁸.⁵⁸ In 2025 the total eased 5.9%³ to 55.0 million⁵⁷,⁵⁷ still 13.5³ times the 4.1 million⁵⁸ of 1970.⁵⁸ Nearly half of visitors come by plane: 47.2%⁵⁹ of 2025 visitors traveled by air,⁵⁹ about 18.2 million³ people. The table gives every year since 1970.

This year's traffic

2026 is running behind. From January to July the airport counted 30,203,980⁶⁰ passengers, 6.9%³ fewer than the 32,430,240⁶⁰ of the same months in 2025; July alone was 7.6%³ lower, while international passengers rose from 279,726⁶⁰ to 296,499⁶⁰.⁶⁰

Much of the drop is one airline. Spirit carried 446,454⁶⁰ domestic passengers through Las Vegas in July 2025, the second most that month, and reported none in July 2026.⁶⁰ Its flights into Las Vegas had already fallen from 1,598⁵² in January 2025 to 502⁵² in December.⁵² Frontier grew the most, by 121,317³ passengers, and Alaska and Breeze also grew.⁶⁰

For comparison: what a trip from Las Vegas costs

A separate official series prices trips that start in Las Vegas: the average domestic itinerary fare (a round trip, or a one-way fare when no return was bought) for journeys beginning at the city's airport, to every destination, from a sample of tickets. It describes trips leaving Las Vegas, not the price of getting there, so it is shown here only for comparison. In the second quarter of 2026, the latest published, such trips averaged $347.68⁶¹, $62.94³ more than a year earlier.⁶¹ The published 2025 yearly average is identical to the 2024 figure, $285.46⁶¹ to the cent, although the four 2025 quarters do not average to it; it appears to be a publication error, so the chart and the trend below stop at 2024.⁶¹

A straight line through 2013-2024 (our calculation, not a forecast) points to about $288³ by 2050. Only 12 points support it, so read it loosely. The quarterly figures show the recent climb in more detail.

What these numbers mean for your trip

For a family of four, the calendar alone is worth real money: four round trips at the $307² average come to $1,228³, four at January's $254² median to $1,016³, a difference of $212³. About $50.07³ of each nonstop ticket, $200.28³ for the family, is taxes and fees that no sale removes.

Geography sets the floor. From Southern California or Phoenix, Las Vegas is a short, cheap hop;¹ from Atlanta, New York or Boston, one-way fares run two to nearly three times the Los Angeles level.¹ For those travelers, timing is the main lever left: a Monday departure at night, in January, booked about five weeks ahead, stacks every cheap pattern on this page.² June and July trips cost the most and run late most often.²

Conclusions

1. Your starting city sets the price first. One-way fares ran from $144.95¹ from San Diego to $409.94¹ from Atlanta in early 2026, and the short western routes cost least.
2. Timing stacks. January's median round trip is $254² against June's $356²; Monday, night flights and a five-week booking window each shave more off.
3. Fares climb slowly, not steadily. The yearly one-way average went from $114.11¹ in 1996 to $217.62¹ in 2025 in current dollars, and trips starting in Las Vegas reached $347.68⁶¹ in the second quarter of 2026.
4. One airline shapes the market, and another dropped out. Southwest carried 43.1%³ of 2025 domestic passengers into Las Vegas, while Spirit, third in 2025, had no passengers there by July 2026, part of a 6.9%³ fall in year-to-date traffic.
5. A fixed slice is taxes. About $50.07³ of a $307 nonstop round trip, 16.3%³, is federal taxes and airport charges, whatever the fare.